Few Fish Pics

[LisaLQ]

They looked better on the LCD screen on my camera Had to lighten some a lot, so please excuse quality...

Some of the plecs in my tank first - starting with my normal coloured common (come on Lisa, think of a bloomin' name for it!):

Herbie the Volkswagen/Titanic plec looking much better now he's not getting his fins shredded by festivums:

Fat tummy:

Left to right - Wilf the albino BN from Littleme, WideBoy the albino common (as big as Wilf now!), and Herbie again:

One of the baby sevs with one of the boesmanni:

And in hubby's tank - the elusive Mr Spoon, my common BN (sp. 3), who is rarely seen let alone photographed:

Some of the angels - starting with Mrs Wembley the gold marble (I think, she's silver, black, yellow and orange/red):

Zorro the koi (again, a guess, as he's got white instead of Mrs W's silver):

Goldie the...erm...gold - now the biggest of the lot:

One of the silvers:

Zippy the rainbow cichlid aka herotilapia multispinosa:

With Goldie in the background looking deceptively small lol:

One of the sterbais:

Sterbai, with Gabriella one of our Bolivian Rams, hubby Carlos playing chicken behind bogwood (cant see him in the pic):

 

[vancouver]

They're all nice, but I still like the albino BN the best..

I saw some for the first time around here, but they were 1'' long, skinny, and like $10..


I want some nice large ones like you have!

What about the festivum? they don't get pics because they attacked the pleco? lol

We have similar taste in fish I think.. rainbows, festivum, neat plecos.

 

[LisaLQ]

Aaah sadly the festivums moved on to a friends tank as I didn't want to risk any more damage to my plecs and boesmanni - I'm rehoming the sevs too, as soon as I know my boesmanni are ok (3 of the 7 have died - one due to the festivums ripping half it's tail off, one found dead the day the festivums moved on with no external signs of anything, one of what looked like columnaris - but others are doing ok so I'm not sure how accurate my diagnosis was). To be honest, if you'd asked me yesterday - all of the fish out of my tank would have been up for rehoming, but only because I was so frustrated with all the problems lately. 2 plecs, and 3 boesmanni - £50 worth of fish lost in the last month. Gold nugget was sad but unavoidable, common problem. Flash plec was a mystery, until Herbie got chewed up by a festivum, then the boesmanni - and it all clicked. Little sods they were, cheeky, adorable, but little sods! Had I had another big tank I'd have kept them on their own, but not in with my plecs - as you might have gathered, I'm a plecoholic.

I might restock with calmer fish, for now the sevs are still in there (causing no problems, never have - but too scared of my plecs getting hurt now to keep them), and the boesmanni and herotilapia. Once the sevs are rehomed (when tank's all clear) I might get more little fish, but to be honest, with my luck, I might just not bother!

 

[vancouver]

I know those type of problems... I think everyone has those every so often.. I had lots of rainbows die too, but I think it was the king of the crew taking them out.

One of my festivum just exploded and died, so I've only got 2 left.. The dominant one bullies my convict which I like, cause convict definitely has the demeanor to decimate all the other fish in the tank, but somehow it's scared of the festivum.

Keyholes should be fine with your plecs and rainbows.. I've never seen my keyholes act aggressive towards anything.. they're more inquisitive then anything.