A long time ago I bought some interesting looking cories at a local auction. They were labelled as C126. I was going through the tank, pulling some plecos out, and remembered about these guys. I look at pictures here of C126, and mine do not look at all that. Browsing more pictures, I found C. leuco...

Hmm, I do believe that is so. That's certainly more than I bargained for originally. It'll be interesting watching them grow up.

Long ago I saw some gorgeous cories at a reputable fish shop while I was out of town for a club auction. They were labeled as Bearded Cory, Scleromystax Barbatus. At that point I hadn't seen any other barbatus in person, so that's what I've called them. Then I later picked up some young barbatus at ...

My paleatus cories started spawning last week, so I set up an additional experiment. I separated ten eggs into each of five cups. One I did nothing as the control, one I had an air stone, one I used five mini ramshorn snails, one with three medium sized ramshorn snails, and a last one with IchX (I d...