Yes, the planted tank mulm and organic debris is essential to the frys and I always make sure there is a thin layer of mulm there for everyone. Few times, the C.Hastatus frys have the nursery tank all by themselves and sometimes they share it with Margaritatus frys. The Margaritatus frys are top swi...

The puzzle thing is that all my Hastatus frys could live on for few weeks or even a month before dying off, while everything else inside the nursery tank continue to flourish. If there was any problem with foods or water parameters, then they wouldn't even make it thru the 1st week. But, they were h...

Hello everyone, I have one 20gal planted tank just for a group of about 20 C.Hastatus and they spawn regularly. There are always frys showing up in the tank but they rarely could grow up to adults. I probably have over a hundred of new frys produced in a year and only about less than 5 could make it...