Yeah, they're normally chubby and also prone to over eating. I've always got the worry in the back of my mind that this might mask the early stages of bloating, but I've been fortunate to not have to deal with that yet. As far as other good tank makes, the list really is endless. If it doesn't fit i...

I would think two should be fine together in a 55gal. Mine never cause any harm to each other, at most the occasional tail slap or head butt seems to be all that's needed for the bigger fish to tell the little fish to move. I think corys are a fantastic tank mate! Since corys don't use hides, there'...

I'd be curious to hear more about your experiment with Ovaprim in the water column. What was the dosing you used?

1. They prefer softer water, but they appear to be rather robust, with one of the raphaels I rescued was living ~15years in what was tantamount to brackish water (tank was heavily encrusted with salt scale), and it acclimated to my more neutral water with no hint of an issue. So your parameters are ...

This happened on both Chrome on PC and Chrome on Android.

Interestingly, now if I log out, I am able to log back in through that path without the error.

I'm getting an error when trying to login from the front page. I found there's a login form at the bottom of the forum page and fortunately that works so I can report the issue

Jools wrote: ↑22 Mar 2023, 14:50 I really like it because I like seeing plants grow.

Jools

Indeed! And being a woodcat tank, I always knew the weekly photo was going to be about the plants. I just never anticipated the observable growth to be almost entirely the Riccia and java moss.

And here's the update I had planned to make, I have reached 1 year of having my perugiae tank restarted. I've been taking a weekly photo to document the changes over time. There's nothing special or dramatic and the catfish stay hidden, but it's a project I've been diligently sticking to so I'm happ...

It's been a while since I've shared any updates, life has been busy and progress in the fish room has been slow. That said I got a surprise sighting of my Microglanis tonight which I figured I'd share. I had withheld pellets from the tank for a few days, and apparently the flakes weren't to its liki...

Some of it is in the internet archives... https://web.archive.org/web/20100923044851/http://www.synodontis.net/synodontis/cf_nigrita/zuchtbericht.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20071025022900/http://www.synodontis.net/CONTENT.PHP?AW=209&SD=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20071023044324/http://www...

Nice! I am also surprised they survived the geos. Maybe the geos learned to avoid them due to the spines <shrugs>

Any thoughts on the use of nutritional yeast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast) as a B vitamin supplement for those of us with smaller fish?

How about the common bullhead does not get very large Jeanne I come across Cottus gobio while searching the internet, is this the one you are talking about? They're likely referring to Ameiurus , and not the sculpin. You previously mentioned Corydoras paleatus , another option might be Scleromystax

Mine have maxed out at the about 4 inch mark.

Morning of Day 16: PXL_20221013_163958194.jpg the late evening of day 16 the eggs were still in place, but by the next morning they were all gone. Presumably hatched. But a search of the tank turned up nothing, and being they share this tank with six pictus cats and far too many corys, I wasn't real...

Day 10 you can clearly see little whiptails in the eggs.

I moved my camera over to the Platydoras tank last night and caught some interesting footage. It seems that they are much more active when I'm not around than I ever imagined And I found this one humorous because she had had enough of his shenanigans...

And on the fishy front, I separated out my best looking male and female L010A with the hopes of getting them laying eggs again. Last night I saw the female was in the log pestering the male, so I checked on them again this morning and look what I found! PXL_20220928_145509996~2.jpg This is the first...

Also, if you're in Sacramento on the first weekend of the month, please, if you can, swing by RoundTable Pizza on Greenback Ave in Folsom and join us at a Sacramento Aquarium Society meeting. If you do, please introduce yourself to me. I'm the program coordinator there. Thank you for the suggestion...

Hi everyone, I would like to thank everybody who contributed to this interesting thread! I have read Diana Walstad's book and wanted to try out the type of tank setup she described. Since my primary focus is on fish keeping and breeding I never even considered the idea of no or minimal water change...

Sadly, I've never had C141. For corys I've only ever had habrosus and paleatus, though I make sure to always keep some space open in the event I stumble upon some knaacki, C150, C141, or other beautiful spotty species. Sorry, I must have been confusing you with someone who used to live down by me i...

Diana Walstad's book, "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist". Unfortunately she doesn't address the suitability of corys, but the book is pure gold with regards to the rest of the information it provides and is a truly invaluabl...

I know the odds are low, but do you have the C141 still? It's been several years. Cheers, Eric Sadly, I've never had C141. For corys I've only ever had habrosus and paleatus, though I make sure to always keep some space open in the event I stumble upon some knaacki, C150, C141, or other beautiful s...

Just some corys enjoying the Sunday morning sunshine

If you haven't already, I would highly recommend checking out Diana Walstad's book, "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist" Unfortunately she doesn't address the suitability of corys, but the book is pure gold with regards to the ...

Harmless to fish eggs, Ingo Seidel actually recommends them as egg and fry janitors in the " Back to Nature guide to L numbers ". I have them in all my tanks and have successfully spawning Corydoras(ln4) pygmaeus etc Malaysian Trumpet Snails are live-bearers (including by parthogenesis) s...

The biggest issue with the snails (any snail sp really) is that they can quickly become the main biomass in an aquarium if left to reproduce uncontrollably. The best long term solution I have found is to use snail traps to keep the population as low as possible. Don't go the Assassin snail directio...

Are you kidding?!? A year out of water and still snails? Holy cow! Dead serious. The wood was removed from a tank with trumpet snails almost exactly a year ago when I moved, and has been sitting on the dry garage floor since then. A couple months back, figuring it had to be safe by now, I added it ...

For the pictus cats, their tank is coming along nicely. I managed to get a hold of some scrap 4" PVC drain pipe that I've been cutting lengths off of which has given the cats some much needed cover. PXL_20220921_031334857(1).jpg I still need to get some more wood, unfortunately the local parks ...

Interesting, with some cursory googling I've found the claim that the Greek glanis seems to derive from glanos and relates to Hyenas... https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=glanis

Which other horizontal reading seemed to confirm (or at least repeat) and potentially attributed to Aristotle.