The farlowella?
It's a type of pleco, believe it or not.
Stays 6 inches long, eats only algae it's whole life. They can be rare but my petsmart sells them.
Thank you! It took me awhile to find one. It was between the Bristle nose and the Clown...the Clown won. I wanted a pleco that looked good and didn't get huge.
I finally gave in and bought another African butterfly fish. This guy was the smallest at the store but he was the only one who had that amazing gold metallic that mine had. For now he's staying in my 10g divided tank with Gabriel until I have him off crickets and eating flakes and freeze dried foods. Plus I still need to make my 48g safe for him.
Right now he's super underweight, he also hasn't eaten yet but hopefully he will soon. Poor guy came from pet club where they tend to starve to death because they aren't fed live foods combined with the stress of living in a rough/strong current caused by the filter.
I can imagine. I tend to shy away from anything requiring live foods. For one thing, my mom would have a fit if I tried to culture live worms in the house.
Ya I can see how that helps. The loaches stay still for like 5 second and then dart off again. I think it's a problem with my lighting. Great for plants, not so great for photographs.
His tail has grown quite a bit since this pic. He and his brother, who was a very flashy orange like a tropical sunset guppy, picked on each other relentlessly in the 20gal and since I had nowhere else to put one of them, the other brother was given to a pet store.
Your guppies are so adorable! I've never had that much luck with guppies, the red eyes in my aquarium can be a little nippy(they have little piranha faces XD).
I got my African butterfly to eat two small crickets today still afraid of my hand but that's understandably.
That was the first guppy spawn I successfully raised to adulthood so it was great fun watching to see how they turned out. Since then, black guppy momma dropped a spawn of about 30 but they went to a pet store. Can't keep that many!
Hurray for the ABF eating!
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