Smudge - Possible Orange Spot - ID appreciated.

well thats just thrown a spanner in the works

L182 is a starlight - are you sure ? Its our own Bristlenose soap opera.

(He's going to be amazing if he is - not there's anything wrong with him right now.)

Ha , time to scratch the idea of your fish being a "Manaus", I'm going back too A.Hoplogenys
J

Kurosaki J wrote:

Ha , time to scratch the idea of your fish being a "Manaus", I'm going back too A.Hoplogenys
J

Its going to be a pleasure sharing the pictures and watching him growing. I love this place and the honest advice, enthusiam and passion. Genuinely a nice place to be.

Apart from getting mixed I.D advice , yeah it's not a bad place
Cheers for the kind words MarkOrm.
J

lol dont all quote me on it i just said he looks like my L182 Juvi....

He will be a stunner no doubt...

Another one from today - focussed on his fin and body patterns rather than his face for once - maybe better for ID. He's growing fast is turning into a right character. He's been attempting to make friends with the Macmasterii who are none too impressed as they've just spawned again.

And the latest - his colouring has changed hugely over the last few weeks as he's approached adult size.

Def an oragne spot, looks just like my big fella

looks like a L059....but it also looks just like my young L182's did...always a tough one when they are this colour....

Keep posting the pics mark weve missed them...

I'll keep them coming - he's appreciating to the home grown courgettes at the moment. The latest pictures doesn't do his "antlers" justice.

Hello all - sorry for the lack of updates my other half is still a bit poorly.

An update - Swapped out the Salvinia Natans for Limnobium Spongia. The Natans is just too quick to grow - never mind outcompeting algae I was chucking out 75% of it onto the compost heap every week - and by the next week it would be ocvering 2/3 of the top again. My other plants were suffering. Sacked the CO2 as well and replaced it with Easycarb. Plants absolutely love it - dose 2ml daily with Seachem Flourish once a week and the plants are doing grat (offer is still there if anyone wants a java fern plantlet or two).

Now running a school of true upside down catfish - 8 in all. Busy little things. Swapped my female 144 for a female (forgotton the designation right now) of the same number as my male as I have a fish keeping buddy down here who was desperate for a female 144 and couldn't find one.

The Panduro have spawned twice and the Macmasterii are even better than ever.

BTW that AquaOne filter is superb - talk about gin clear water. The only thing about it is you need to change the wool filter as in chuck away rather than rinse every 2-3 months. Its very effective and the flow will gradually slow until you change it. Much better than the Fluval.

Anyway here we go ... my female Ancistrus.



A certain little BN has now grown up



Male A. Macmasterii. You all know him.



Female A. Macmasterii. You know all know her.

awesome pics!!

Doug wrote:

Def an oragne spot, looks just like my big fella

have to admit pleco's can be so hard to identify as they change colour as they mature and also again when stressed.

in the picture on here - like Doug says it can be confused with a orange /mustard spot....

so may take a while longer to identify as yet..

LDA72.............

Aye - they grow quick. I will not be neglecting posting some pictures as they keep growing.

just what we need mark,,weve missed your quality pics...