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Old 01-16-2007, 02:51 AM
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This is Vallu - the king of my biggest aquarium. He is Ancistrus sp., length is about 5,5" and 3 years old.

He is very different than my earlier pets - 3 lovely lhasas. Last of them passed away about 2 year ago.

Actually Vallu is very shy. He dosn't want to pose at all.

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Old 01-16-2007, 07:44 AM
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Sweet Pleco !!! Love the spikes
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Old 01-16-2007, 09:46 AM
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WOW!!! Very cool Pleco. Pleco's were my favorite bottom feeders when I had aquariums. The biggest one I had grew from 1 inch to 7 inches. It was black and it had night sky blue eyes. Very beautiful.
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That's awesome! Looks like some creature from the deep!
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Old 01-16-2007, 10:06 AM
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I have to dig out a photo from a trip to Brazil. We were in a local village and the fisherman came back with a basin full of fish. There were some plecos there, piranha and everything else that you find in a fish store.

One man's pet is another man's food.
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Old 01-16-2007, 10:38 AM
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That's awesome! What else do you have in your aquarium? I have a pleco, although nothing quite as cool as yours, amongst my cichlids. Love those guys though - they are just too cool!
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Old 01-16-2007, 10:52 AM
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How big is this fish Ludisia. I noticed you are from Finland, and you are probably using the metric system? Did you mean 5 feet 5 inches, or 5 and half centimeters?
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Old 01-31-2007, 05:00 AM
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The pleco is about 14 cm or 5,5 inches

I've got pair of key hole cichlid
several cardinal tetras
six corydoras
six otocinclus
pair of paratocinclus jumbo
and Vallu

I had also harem of apistos, but they died. Now I try to find out why it happened?

Actually Vallu and his kind is very common here. If you put pair of these in the aquarium, it doesn't take long time when dozens of little plecos is swimming there

Meredith
What kind of cichlids do you have?

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:iagree: Super cool! I haven;t seen one like this before!
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Old 02-01-2007, 04:53 AM
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Default Long-armed shrimp

I've got other creature in her own tank - little beast who eats everything



This is Macrobrachium lanchesteri female. Beware
Just kidding, it is only about 2,5 inches.
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