I recently acquired 6 WC C. fowleri, they are big 3-4", probably adults. They dwarf my biggest adult sterbai. This might be the reason they are not eating the dry foods. I've tried NLS pellets and earth worm flakes, they show absolutely no interest. The only thing they've eaten are cherry shrim...

does anyone know what kind of duckweed is this? http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b83/xoddd/DSC00192.jpg Looks like what's commonly called frogbit. I use them in my tanks. They spread fast and I have to throw out handfuls during weekly water changes, but they are easy to control because of their la...

1 definite female
3 definite males
1 possible female

great looking corys

I use frogbit instead, it's much larger than duckweed so you can control it no problem and it doesn't get stuck in your fitler or tank decorations.

congrats on the spawn

thanks all :D yeah the plants on the wood are anubias nana with a few micro/petite. The "mossy" type on the higher region of the wood is fissidens. The floating type with the long roots is frogbit. All easy no nonsense plants :razz: here's a pic of a day old fry with the yolk http://img.ph...

Just wanted to share a vid of my recent weitzmani spawning activity. Didn't really have to do anything special, just had to move them to their own 20gal tank and they started spawning in the next 3 days. enjoy


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from my experience, a cory spawning session lasts a few hours, it's ok to retrieve the eggs during the spawning session if you're afraid they will be eaten. They'll get scared for a few minutes but will resume spawning. I do this with my pandas because they are vigorous egg eaters! I recently spawne...

My corys' staple food is NLS thera (garlic), I feed this every other day, the other days I feed HBH flakes, brime shrimp flakes, earthworm flakes and live white worms once a week. They go crazy for the live worms, they'll start digging and digging immediately. If your substrate isn't too thick, I th...

5" even including the tail is huge!

Can someone tell me if these Oregon Red Alder cones can be used?

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Hi I dont have any problems with grindle worms at all as they are fed on hot baby cereal which puts a lot of vitamins into the worms,then into the fish,thats good for them to produce the eggs and good health, as for the white worm they are fed on white or brown bread that produces fat in the worms ...

Are grindle worms high in fat content like whiteworms and therefore should be fed sparingly?

They do make aquarium fans that attach to the top rim of your tank. They aren't very expensive if you don't want to DIY a computer fan. Rather then putting ice cubes into the tank, most people float a frozen bottle of water in their tanks. This process last longer then ice cubes and you don't have t...

A friend gave me a bit of cyclops eeze to try, I think it's freeze dried cyclops meant for fry. Anyone try this for cory fry?

I've also had problems with bare bottom tanks with barbel erosions aswell. I switched to a very fine gravel and thier barbels are all nice and long :D Aesthetically a fine gravel or sand is much more natural and your corys will enjoy digging in it. It doesn't need to be deep, mine is probably around...

lovely do you have a full tank shot?

Need to clear space for new corys. I have 2 female C schwartzi, they are large around 2" and are gravid, I don't have any males so never got a chance to breed them. Asking $5 for both, PM me if you're interested My location: http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&a...

I would like to try feeding earthworms from my backyard to my corydoras and would like to know how to safely prepare them for feed? How do you drain their "guts", do I need to cut them into tiny pieces so it fits in the cory's mouthes? They seem rubbery.

Bronze corys (Corydoras aeneus) are often called "Green cory" around here.

I'm pretty sure in this case, it's genetic. I've had him for several years and it was always like this. My substrate is fine, since all my corys have long barbels, as you can see from this cory's barbels.

just wanted to share a pic of one of my male panda corydoras with a very cool forked barbel. It would be even cooler if 4 of his long barbels were forked, would look like a bushynose cory

I recently found an ebay listing, I am not the seller, for freshwater fairy shrimp eggs. These are similar to brine shrimp but much easier to hatch, supposedly you just drop them intowater and wait a day for them to hatch, no airpump or salt needed. Anyone try this to feed cory fry? Here's the link ...

great tank, gives me inspiration to start a mossy shrimp tank can you tell me what moss you used for the moss tank?

I've got a lot of slugs in my garden eating my veggies, just wondering if I can feed them to my cory cats? i hear they are high in protein like earthworms

I bought them as "whitefin" corydoras if that helps. I don't think they are C. agassizii, the cory is not as pale as the pic shows but it's not as colourful as C. agassizii.

Can someone help me identify this corydoras? thanks

if you didn't mix up your nitrate and nitrite readings, then you should be concerned. A cycled tank should have zero nitrite readings and some nitrate reading. The nitrogen cycle is ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate

interesting, when I tore down my planted tank, that had plenty of snails, and switched to a mix cory tank, the snails eventually disappeared. I always assumed it was because of the corys efficiancy in eating all the food and therefore no leftovers for the snails.