I guess a longer and shallow tank would do better for them to have more digging room....

If I were to design a tank for cories, I guess it'll be something along the lines of say 3 feet long with a foot height and 1 foot and 1/2 width for more room for the fishes to be on near the bottom....

What methods do you use to lower the PH in the tank?

In Singapore, we use Indian Almond leaves and also the Tetra Blackwater, both helps with a darker water colouration and a slightly lowered pH value.

As for buffering and more serious lowering, I guess the store bought chemicals should do the ...

More if you like, but make sure there's enough filtration....

I over-filtrate with a ext cannister and an internal cannister and thus I can get away with more fishes... about 20+ in a 2 footer.

Check the gravel. Does it have sharp edges... if so, it may have been the cause of injuring the cory's mouth.

This sounds a little like MouthRot/Mouth Fungus. If so, it's a bacterial infection

Cottonwool fungus could also be a possibilty esp when there are wounds.

I guess most of the time, they'd be hiding under the filters???

If this is so, then they'd need some places to hide from the lights, give them some room and they'd feel more at ease and may breed soon too.... try some fast growing plants for cover... and some moss for them to lay the eggs on ...

Cool...

nice to hear that... do try to document the growing stages... may help for future breedings

ZAC08, are you thinking on artemia salina??
Yes, I have eggs at home, but i produce live artemia only for fry... do you suggest that feed my cory's with artemia eggs or with live ones??

I guess they have been answered...

Both works for cories.... Just be careful of the shells, esp for juvenile ...

Could you get your hands on any brine shrimp?? Eggs or live ones?? They are a welcomed food for cories

I guess most of the time, they'd be hiding under the filters???

If this is so, then they'd need some places to hide from the lights, give them some room and they'd feel more at ease and may breed soon too.... try some fast growing plants for cover... and some moss for them to lay the eggs on ...

I overdosed on Tetra Blackwater and my Hastatus bred in that tank.... Seems like a change in water chemistry might have something to do with it....

I guess the fear would mainly be that the newcomers have more pathogens on them and thereby infecting the current tank inhabitants who are slightly weakened after the fight against one disease already....

You can also try Badis Badis.. they are snail hunters too...

And they do not nip other fishes fins

And also active movements... they should not be sluggish or swimming in any odd manners

Try Interpet No 9. it's meant for internal bacteria. This seems like a classic case of internal pathogens acting up on weaker fishes.

Normally it acts on one or two weaker ones... Try a partial water change of abt 20% to lower any chances of other pathogens or nitrate levels, this may help the rest ...

Dun follow me, but you should see the numbers of Cories I have in my 14 gallon.... so your tank is still doing really well...

I have something like 30 cories (mix sizes) in my 14 gallon. But I'm running 2 filters for the tank now... one ext. cannister and 1 internal Eheim Aquaball (with 2 catridges ...

I'm also interested to read up more on such a piece of news.


Thanks

Cool... do note tat there are a lot of juvenile pandas which are actually tank bred... and thus their mortality rate is higher...

Be warned... over here in Singapore, we're facing this problem too... some of my frens has never kept them alive for more than 2 months...

Location pls....

Wat's the weather like at your place?? If it's about 24 - 28°C, it's just nice... not too low or not too high...

Any lower, you may need heaters, too high, you'd want to get some fans or chillers (if you're rich enuff)

Tank size? I guess something of about 20 gallons or so ...

Not an expert.... but I guess this is wat you could do...

I'm also a working adult and couldn't be at home to do an intensive feeding... SO I hit upon feeding as much as I could for about 3 times a day or so... once before I go to work in the morning, then when I get back... and also before lights ...

My guess is more of the mollies and platies esp if they are large enough in size...

Do remove the eggs ASAP and move it into another tank with the same water parameters...

Wow.....

that's great...

Good luck to your spawning Andy... I wish mine can do the same though....

Some tricks I've heard....

Lowering the water level over a few days to simulate a dry hot season.... and adding cool water about 1 - 2 weeks later.... this will simulate a rainy season after a long and dry spell.... Not sure how well it works...

Good luck,

hi all!!!

thanks a lot!

I thought they were axelrodi ... but there was an ID that they had to be deckeri ... so I looked through some pics, did some research ... didn't find out much cept that I thought that the shape of these fellas looked more like the axelrodi.

could anyone help with some ...

Thank you Ian for clearing up that for me....

I've had this mistaken thought that it had occured in the wild abeit in very small numbers, thus they had isolated those few specimens to breed to get the genes out...

Hmm... artificial hormones will induce long finnage.... could you please explain a ...

Thanks Georg,

there may be a bit of truth intrying to reduce the chances and amount of hybrids out there if this was just the beginning, but we have to sit down and accept the fact that hybrids are here to stay, whether we like it or not....

And even though man are responsible for fine-tuning of ...

Hi there Rusty,

I myself am a moderator in other forums and I do understand that we do make mistakes. But if I do make a mistake, I'd be a man and say sorry for such a mistake.

What I do not like here is the high and mighty attitudes that only pure breds are welcomed and all others are to be ...

Unbelievable...

2 of our leading experts here claiming them to be dyed fishes without even a second look... How are we to trust them for identification in future??

I suggest that next time you just believe your LFS.

So can I safely assume that this forum is not good enough to help on these ...

Unbelievable...

2 of our leading experts here claiming them to be dyed fishes without even a second look... How are we to trust them for identification in future??

I understand that you're not particularly happy about dyed fishes and man-made species, but could you also have a more critical eye to ...

Hmm....

I see.... any other comments on this fish??

Graeme wrote:Adobe program? This does'nt look real to me!!

Negative... at least I dun think the guy was trying to fool anyone when he asked for ID of these creatures....