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Lthrbecks wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 11:46 am Thats a superb piece of advice. Thanks for taking the time to try and help me out. Much appreciated
You are very welcome :)
Lthrbecks wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 12:00 pm I'd like to end with a funny story...
My pleco disappeared a few months ago as did my Kulhi Loaches. I assumed they'd gone to fish Heaven! I was wrong. I was cleaning out the inner workings of my filter and there was the pleco, hiding for three months without food or cucumber! The kulhi loaches just appeared after the recent major water change. Ive no idea were they've been hiding. I know they're nocturnal but i hadn't seen them in months either! Sadly the pleco doesn't do the cleaning job that i bought him for. He rarely makes an appearance and when he does pop up, he's not stuck to the glass. Pity, as he was quite expensive 😂
I hope this is not the end but the beginning of your participation on the forum and the beginning of your fish keeping adventure ;)
We're a friendly and hopefully helpful bunch.

Some fish can hide or only come out at night when the lights are off.
Kuhli loaches (Pangio semicincta) are lovely fish but tend to bury themselves in the substrate and you will only see the tips of their heads poking out or they may even completely bury themselves.
Different fish have different behaviours and/or show different personalities.
I had two amano shrimp a year or so ago, I would occasionally see them but not often, then they disappeared and like yourself I thought they had passed on.
During some aquarium maintenance I removed some bogwood and placed the bogwood in a plastic bowl. It wasn't until I lifted the bogwood to put back in to the aquarium that I saw the two amano shrimp, they had been hiding under the bogwood and when I lifted the bogwood from the bowl there they were in the bottom of the bowl, still alive.

When you get it right it quickly becomes a very enjoyable pastime and sitting and watching the fish in the aquarium is very therapeutic too.

All the best


Stay safe & healthy everyone
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I think that's an L115 baryancistrus sp., so will get to about 8" and is an omnivore.
I don't think the head's right for the hypancistrus inspector which is basically a carnivore or the L102 (also baryancistrus sp.) which about 10" and an omnivore.
But that's no guarantee by my id. ;)
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Ive just remembered its L102. How on earth did it survive without proper food for three months stuck inside a filte mechanism full of detritus?
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Lthrbecks wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 13:12 pm Image
Hypancistrus inspector (L102) is still a very nice fish
Add some terracotta pipes or caves structures or other places for it to hide away. It loves to hide.

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He hides behind the filter or in the log! I wonder why my small albino cory, has become nocturnal, all of a sudden?
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That’s not L102.
L102 (H. inspector) is easily identified by a black edge to the dorsal and caudal fins. Also the head shape is not that of a Hypancistrus.
It appears to be a Baryancistrus, probably L115, as Stephen said.
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Thats only a photo from the Internet. It looks identical to mine.
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I purchased an L102
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If it’s identical to that photo it’s not L102. That was my point. :)
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