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    anyone here who can help mez with his questions?

    ontopic again, thanks

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    On 3/25/2002 12:06:59 AM

    anyone here who can help mez with his questions?

    ontopic again, thanks
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    Agreed
    Again...my apologies to Mez for stealing his thread.
    As you must already know Mez, I've had no experience wif the above...heard they r relatively easy to breed, esp if given the parameters of 29 dg celcius & pH of abt 6.2 Apparently is not an easy fish to keep, tho'.

    BTW, there r many varients of the three-lined pencil fish, but the trifasciatus has one of the more colourful fin tips. I suspect those in Gan's tanks are the Nannobrycon eques.

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    No problem, Nizz.
    Thanks, i would like to get some more and set up a breeding tank for them.
    They seem to be a bit nippy towards my guppies, anyone else experienced nippyness from these?
    Mez
    Currently keeping many wild betta species and other anabantoids.

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    Hi Mez

    How many of them do u have currently? I've heard the general saying dat for schooling fish, if u have a larger grp, they'd stop/reduce their fin-nipping.

    Comments fr others?

    Nizz

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    yes get 6 or 7 of them so they will reduce the brickering with your other fishes.
    Cheers!

    Benetay

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    I use to keep 2 pencil fish in my planted tank but both jump out @ nite and are dead by the time my dad found them in the morning....anyone of you encountering pencil jumping out of tanl??????
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    pencilfish jumping out of your tank?

    hmm, actually last week when i fixed a canister filter to my 1.5ft, i moved my rasboras hengelis to my 3ft tank because i was afraid they'll jump out cos small tank with wide open top. but next morning, i found one of them in a small container on the floor (i was soaking something) swimming around, though. then when i counted, one was (still is) missing!

    i think, pencilfish & these hengelis, being top-level fish, maybe something frightened them during the night so they jumped?
    P-L-E-C-O-R-Y=M-A-N-I-A!!! YEAH!
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    Pencil are great jumpers.....they land quite far away from my tank!!!! those who got problem in doing standing board jump can consult them!! hahahahahah!!!!!!!!
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    yup, pencilfish r oso good jumpers... that r oso easy prey for my altums

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    On 3/29/2002 5:17:59 PM

    pencilfish jumping out of your tank?

    hmm, actually last week when i fixed a canister filter to my 1.5ft, i moved my rasboras hengelis to my 3ft tank because i was afraid they'll jump out cos small tank with wide open top. but next morning, i found one of them in a small container on the floor (i was soaking something) swimming around, though. then when i counted, one was (still is) missing!

    i think, pencilfish & these hengelis, being top-level fish, maybe something frightened them during the night so they jumped?
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    coryfav, I have 15 dwarf pencils and they have never jumped, even when there were 6 menacing Boesemani's rainbow in there terrorising everyone else. Perhaps this is because I have quite a lot of hornwort floating around the rainbar forming good hiding spots. I see many of the pencils resting amongst the hornwort after the lights go out.
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
    hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica

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    hwchoy, can i float java moss? thinking of hanging some over part of my rainbar too.

    or which lfs sells hornwort? wanna go take a look.

    i'll be moving my 8 3-lined pencilfish from my 2ft to the new 3ft, in a week or two.

    thanks!
    P-L-E-C-O-R-Y=M-A-N-I-A!!! YEAH!
    FLORENCE, capital of the region of Tuscany, has a population of around half a million inhabitants, spreads on the banks of the Arno, between the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian seas, almost in the middle of the Italian peninsula. It is a city which bustles with industry and craft, commerce and culture, art and science.

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    On 3/30/2002 7:55:13 PM

    hwchoy, can i float java moss? thinking of hanging some over part of my rainbar too.

    or which lfs sells hornwort? wanna go take a look.

    i'll be moving my 8 3-lined pencilfish from my 2ft to the new 3ft, in a week or two.

    thanks!
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    I have hornwort draped over the rainbar, and java moss draped over the water intake [:]

    if you want hornwort, I can give you, they grow like weeds especially when they're floating and close to the lights. Let me know if you want them, I pluck them every week or when they start blocking out too much lights.
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
    hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica

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    thanks, hwchoy! think i'll start with java moss first.

    P-L-E-C-O-R-Y=M-A-N-I-A!!! YEAH!
    FLORENCE, capital of the region of Tuscany, has a population of around half a million inhabitants, spreads on the banks of the Arno, between the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian seas, almost in the middle of the Italian peninsula. It is a city which bustles with industry and craft, commerce and culture, art and science.

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    make sure to have the rainbar and suckers just under the water line and top up the water else you get roasted moss
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
    hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica

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    Just an aid to the topic.


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    book by atsushi sakurai, setiardi?

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    Yes, u have one? Very useful reference book but description of each is quite brief.

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