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I looked at your amazing tank pictures, and saw that you were asking if your Banjo Catifsh was ill or pregnant to the catfish website. Could you let me know what you found out? I have a few pretty fat catfish, including a banjo and a spotted raphael. I am pretty sure my spotted raphael is just fat....

Hi Darter, Have you ever fed live tubifex worms? see here for a pic of them in someone's tank: http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111980 Hmmm, they do look like tubifex, but I never fed them to my fish. Of course, I find all sorts of critters in there at times. Take these tiny bu...

Thanks for all the compliments on the photos. I shoot with a digital SLR (either a Canon EOS 10D or a 40D) and use a 100mm f/2,8 lens for the macro work, and a variety of other lenses for the wider shots. Sometimes, I use a studio light, angled in from the side. Basically, I just try to shoot straig...

[quote="andre"][/quote]Are you sure they are not eggs from one of your fish or snail???

Good idea, but the size is way too small. The smallest eggs I've seen laid are from the Olive Nerite Snails, and they are twice the size of the eggs seen in the photo.

Hi Darter Have a look at this clip, do they look the same? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.cann/articles/nemerteans.html Good luck! Andrea Nope, these hardly move at all, they sort of lie limp, even when you try to pick them up. They're also a lot smaller, maybe only 1cm long. Oh, and they are a ...

Here is a worm I am trying to ID myself. They live in the substrate, around the roots of my plants. I also find them in the filter media on occasion. They’re about the same length as the frozen bloodworms I feed my discus. I happened to spot this one in the branches of one of my plants, a very unusu...