Sort of. I have a one year old that has stayed 'dwarfed' at around ¾". The rest of the brood were fine though. That does happen in most any batch of fry. Some grow more slowly than others, some simply stop growing, completely. For whatever reason, I took the question as relating to the entire ...

bsmith wrote:Ever heard of that?

Personally, I have not. My experience with S. barbatus and S. kronei is that once they make it past the 7 day mark, they are fairly bullet proof and grow quite rapidly, given frequent WC's and an extremely varied diet. Cheers. - Frank

Mr. Fuller was kind enough to create a sticky at the top of this forum on raising fry. You can't beat that information as a excellent starting point. Congrats on your wrigglers. Cheers. - Frank

They feed mostly on algae, and vegetables like salad, brussels sprouts and that stuff. If you have the possibility to put some stones into a small tank on the window ledge, I´d do that to produce large amounts of algae. Don´t put them into a clinical clean tank. Unfortunately I know more keepers wh...

Thank you, Daniel. Being partial to any small species, I have become quite fond of these. While they appear quite happy and healthy after having them a few weeks, I have not actually seen them eat any of the various foods I have given them. Anything you can name that would be the most important part...

Greetings. Can anyone supply a little better ID beyond what the exporter has supplied? They are 1.5". Cheers. - Frank

They look amazing and I would never have picked them for congo size. I guess I should try to measure one. Who knows how mature my Congos were for comparison? I wonder if they are available down here. Kinda rare. I only know of a handful of people keeping them. Great photo's by the way. Thanks. I'm ...

nvcichlids wrote:Wow! How big are these?

Hmmm. Well, I don't do much measuring, but they are definitely on the upper end of most tetra species. Almost as large as the last Congos that I kept, if that helps at all. Cheers. - Frank

Thanks for the information, Mike. I will try all that you have suggested and will certainly keep you posted.

There are simply way too many cool fish on the planet. Cheers. - Frank

Greetings. This fish is one of the most interesting in the hobby. According to Heiko Bleher, "it is the only species of freshwater fish we know of, that has infrared perception." Another rarely seen and highly sought after species. I have acquired 50 of these and will also be setting these...

Hi. They have been accurately ID's as Hyphessobrycon coelestinus - Red Rainbow Tetra. TYVM. - Frank

Jools wrote:Just wanted to say that I'm very happy for this section of the forum to be used for this sort of thing. Lovely fish!

Great. Thanks, Jools.

Greetings. I hope that this is allowed in this section. I have been unable to get a species name for this fish. I know that many of the people here keep many species other than cats. They have started spawning, so I'd like to start raising them. Anyone have any idea what they actually are??? Cheers....

Do you have some information how you breed the N.Morthenhalerie? Temp, parameters etc.... Hi. I keep a group 10 with a 50/50 sex-ratio in a 10 USG tank. It is thickly stuffed with java moss, has a fine sand bottom and one sponge filter. The tank is unheated, so the temp fluctuates between 68 and 72...

I have also a group of N.Rubrocaudatus. Till now i have not seen any activity of spawning, unfortunately. How is it going in your tank? Hi. I still have not managed to find the time to set them up, by there is distinct spawning activity taking place in the group tank. I hope to get a few groups set...

Yep and my 84 degree L183 tank they rot pretty quickly. The IAL have a very sturdy spine that does not degrade that aids in removal of the spent litter. I need to reorder some of those as I am moving heavily into keeping wild bettas. Do you have a US supplier for them as I can only find them is SE ...

Hopefully I get some fry to feed! Any chance you know the incubation period roughly? Hi Brandon. Very temperature dependent, but 3 days is about average. I really like leaf litter. It's in all my CRS tanks and I believe the microorganisms "aufwechs" (I think) that reside afte a couple of ...

Any advise of feeding? I am thinking crushed egg/spirulina/tropical/worm flakes in the morning (~8am) and the same about 12h later. Another subject that each fish keeper seems to have their own regimen, for. I don't generally feed until the third day after hatching. I have lately started using leaf...

They ate a relatively young group. I will have had them one year this May. Right. Average age for first time spawning attempts, the first couple of which can go awry. The egg count would also be shy of what one would expect in a mature female. So is it suggested that I remove the eggs/all other cat...

I'm not used to Cory's returning to the same spot to add eggs Do keep in mind that although many Corys have what could be called traditional egg laying patterns for their individual species, none of them hold completely true, 100% of the time. While S. barbatus will generally lay as shown in the ph...

C. schultzei "Black" generally lay up to 300 eggs, in my experience. S. barbatus generally average around 70 until very mature then can climb to 100 or slightly more. If this is a young adult group of S. barbatus, I would lean in that direction. Almost all of the eggs look viable. Personal...

"Canon L " lens .. those are some high end - high price lens @-) . As with most things in life, "You get, what you pay for." thanx for the answer , so the bottom line is practice and patience :YMSMUG: In a nutshell, yes - although adding a smidgen of persistence to the mix, neve...

Hat's off for you Frank ^:)^ , for patiance and perseverence in breeding this species. Is that just a nice way of saying that I'm obstinate and don't know when to give up??? lol. care to share some info on you're photo technique? u're photo's allways amazes me , the amount of sharpness and detail ....

Thanks, everyone. Much appreciated. Cheers. - Frank

Greetings. As promised, here is an updated pic of a C. gracilis fry at 30 days of age. A much better image, methinks. They are still spawning, regularly and I have many fry of various ages in 4 different fry tanks. I have placed some juvies over light sand and will try to get them reshot, today. Che...

This spawning mode is supposed to also be true of the mysterious Rineloricaria sp(l010a)]. However, I know the breeder who raised the specimens I have usually used a a closed end PVC pipe cave. I have had this fish spawn on numerous occasions using three - 9" pieces of open-ended PVC zip-tied ...

I would concur that the fish are C. duplicareus. - Frank

Frank, If anyone was to breed them it would be you and Eric Broderick. Hi Larry. Eric has had spawns for a good while, now. I personally have never seen a live one in almost five decades. I was afraid that it was going to take me that long to get them to spawn. It sure felt like it. lol. I have onl...

Thats fantastic Frank TYVM. and great pics of the C.Gracilis Fry :-BD Actually. I need to reshoot that. Although I do keep sand in all of my Cory tanks, that fry has been housed in a tank with Pencil fish fry. The bottom is painted black, no sand, an inch of leaf litter, no light and placed over li...

Lovely! They sure are. I have just got a couple of fry from N. beckforidi - I know, nothing special, They're all special and if you can do one, you gotta figure you can do them all. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. lol. but despite a long time keeping fish, I only just got "into" p...