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Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:19 am**

mickthefish wrote:thats the one Lina.

thanks

mick
btw, i thought you were working?.

I am:-) have got unlimited acces to the internet and can check it anytime;-) it does not affect my working outcome:-)

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:45 pm**

mickthefish wrote:i'm positive that it's a gibbicepts, but to make 100% sure could you get a pic of the whole fish Lina.

mick

here it is, the best i have managed to take...sorry i don't know how to download to this site, I've tried, but it did not worked... could you check this webpage, please- it's from my private albom

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lina.tara ... 0v8vfrFHVw#

many thanks...

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:52 pm**

thats a gibbiceps Lina.
and it can grow to 61 cm or more eventually.

mick

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:25 pm**

mickthefish wrote:thats a gibbiceps Lina.
and it can grow to 61 cm or more eventually.

mick

O my GOD... ok... I'll see what I can do about it...
Is the Pecoltia grows that large? I wanted to have something simular, but small:-)

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:19 pm**

peckoltia mostly are full grown at between 10 to 15 cm. a nice small type is called the clown plec, i know Tanja has some of these i do too but mine are very camera shy.
once you see the pic it should be easy for you to find the fish in the shops.

mick

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:55 pm**

Gibbiceps are more spotted aren't they? This one looks more like Glyptoperichthys joselimaianus. Though it does get around 50 cm so huge nonetheless.

Joselimaianus:

http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Image:Gl ... ianus1.jpg

Gibbiceps:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... age_id=593

I could be wrong though

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:15 am**

Lina, here's a pic of a clown plec, if it gets to 75mm youve got a good fish, if you want you can print it off to take it to the shop to show what you want.

mick

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:30 am**

He is a lovely…

No…can you imagine, the shop do not want even part exchange the fish…because of their new policy…. (probably credit crunch affecting them as well)….

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:32 am**

the only other way Lina is to offer to give it to them for free.
i know it's bad but what can you do.

mick

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:00 pm**

I Spoke to Terry from Bethnal Green wholesale trops. and he said that he might take him in 2 weeks time , but for their price. To be honest I don't care about the price- I care about the fish as at the moment it is small (10 sm) and it does not do any harm, but if will start grow I will have no choice and will need to rid off him. I don't want to fry him on the pan:-) (it was a joke btw)

Anyway thanks for your advice, Mick.

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:14 pm**

You could always advertise of aquarist classified in the mean time, and hopefully some one will have a tank large enough to take them

Ashleigh

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:03 pm**

Lina wrote:I Spoke to Terry from Bethnal Green wholesale trops. and he said that he might take him in 2 weeks time , but for their price. To be honest I don't care about the price- I care about the fish as at the moment it is small (10 sm) and it does not do any harm, but if will start grow I will have no choice and will need to rid off him. I don't want to fry him on the pan:-) (it was a joke btw)

Anyway thanks for your advice, Mick.

I don't quite follow....you're going to have to pay them to take it or they'll pay you? I gave terry a bunch of filament barbs and he gave me the trade price for them. Was very pleased. Replaced all the plants the little blighters had destroyed in my tank with the money!

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:58 am**

As soon as they have got spase , I can bring it there and they will give a trade price, which is absolutely fine...

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:42 am**

One of my gouramis (male one) are chasing and bullying a male Guppy, part of his tale has been nipped… What should I do???

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