Woke up to two dead metae "fry"(in reality they are over a month old so not sure what to call them), that makes for 5 spotted deaths in total out of 14 fish so I have at best 9 left, 7 in a breederbox and 2 might still be alive in the parents tank. I did expect some losses but lately they ...

I did collect some yesterday so will try them out next time I have a reason. Beautiful plecos indeed, looking forward to updates. Thanks for putting up with my questions!

What's the problem with picking them from the ground? They are quite abundant in the area where I live so could pick(actually got a branch standing outside the door for decoration). Thanks for the tips, I am using almond leaves in some of my tanks but would be better not having to spend money on the...

Cool! How did you hatch the eggs? I don't like egg tumblers. I take a large glass jar with 7/8 water (so it will float) in the tank they were bred in and an air stone. The first 12 hours or so I have Alder cones in with the eggs.... after I do 100% water changes several times a day till they are re...

Cool! How did you hatch the eggs?

Small update on the fry for anyone who is interested! The 9 fry in the box seems to be doing fine and have grown quite fast, the two that took off into the tank have not been spotted and I am afraid they have died. There are only 12 adult corys and 2 bristlenose fry in the tank so not sure why that ...

On a tangent I have never seen my corydoras sterbai go to the surface of course it's possible they still do since I don't watch that tank all that much but I don't think so.

Super cool. Found the little guy. I agree but then again they are my first cory fry. Just hope some make it to adults since my school of 7 could really use some increase in numbers as they are very shy/skittish and adding more if they didn't solve it themselves would be pricey if not downright impo...

So I simply did it, moved them to the parent tank but in a floating box. Or well atleast 9 of them, 2 didn't wanna leave the net so they are now the pilots for staying with the grown ups. Can you spot the youngling in pic number 1? 11 in total but might have missed one or two, did try to look hard t...

I got a surprise spawn of cory(metae) fry, I would guess they are less than 10 but hard to tell since alot of stuff on the bottom of tank. Over the last 3 days I have found 2 of them dead. My line of thinking is that they don't get enough food since they are also with, exactly, 10 ancistrus fry(that...

Cancel the party, egg/fry are gone no idea what happened this morning when I woke up he had simly left the cave and there are none in there. Maybe the female eating them thing happened since I have seen atleast 2 females sitting around the cave more often than not. Or the male is just not experienc...

Cancel the party, egg/fry are gone no idea what happened this morning when I woke up he had simly left the cave and there are none in there. Maybe the female eating them thing happened since I have seen atleast 2 females sitting around the cave more often than not. Or the male is just not experience...

And here I thought, naively?, that the aquarium trade helps perserve areas that would otherwise be burnt down like the rest. I am just a dumb dork with a computer on the other side of the world though but don't really wish to be part of eradicating animals from the wild. Although I believe it's pret...

I suppose that doing less is sometimes the best option and that I am just overthinking(quite obsessive with it at the moment but guess that's to be expected from first spawn?), I have set up a little floating cage in the maintank and will try to move fry there once I see that the male lose interest....

I have investigated now(held the cave up towards light so that I could see into it) and there are definitely eggs if not fry(saw some rather large orange looking things but was hard to determine if it was eggs or the yolk sacks), hard to see since the male blocked most of it and I didn't want to hol...

Great input with lots of good information and fun tidbits, think my male also had a second interested female on the day it happened but doubt he could handle two, let alone three in an hour haha. He seems to be able to keep others out of the cave for now though. The male is still in the cave but I h...

Thanks guys, I will gamble and just let them do their thing I think, the male seems dedicated enough. If I see fry(I have not seen anything but the male is not coming out of cave ever, not even for his favorite food and I can see him moving fins all the time) I might try to move the cave into a bree...

My L397 take about 6 days to hatch at 81-85F (https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/my_blog.php?task=show&id=1166&username=bekateen&species_id=1847#1166). Then at least week or so to use up their yolks. Typically, I wait until the fry are 4-5 days post-hatching (so they have some yolk le...

@stuby Thank you, I suppose they have been hatched for a week or so if that's the case, tank is kept at 27 degrees but might have been warmer depending on weather at times. Would you advise me to move the cave+male to a small tank/breederbox? They are with a group of L397s, Sterbai corys and an anci...

My L397 has been fanning for a good 10 days now, can't really see into the cave due to it's placement but shouldn't it be time by now? I get tired just looking at him, I don't think he left the cave for food either so abit concerned for him aswell. Any ideas?

Will try to get a picture of it asap but have not seen the particular fish today, the eyes are slightly bulging and white. Anybody got an idea of what to do first? Water parameters are in order and rest of fish seems unaffected. I am considering just adding some salt or perhaps some anti bacterial m...

Always nice with updates Tank looks great! Hope they will spawn for you.

Think this might be a pic of the alpha male of the group, if there is one. In my eyes it looks like it's showing signs of odontes and it's the only one camping a cave most of the time.

Is it just me? The fish in the photos seem too far away for me to sex them. Can you get closer photos? Cheers, Eric Realize I sounded a bit rude and it wasn't my intention haha, but I do think the pics should be quite close up so maybe ill try to reupload them(they probably are not very good regard...

After the boots?

Is it just me? The fish in the photos seem too far away for me to sex them. Can you get closer photos? Cheers, Eric They are pretty close up if you press on them? Maybe something is weird with how I added them(taking more is to late but in my mind they are "close") there is also a video(w...

I think I get the gist of your answer, maybe a rather silly thing to worry about but I am overly cautious, sometimes(perhaps to a fault).

Today I moved 5 L397s into a new tank(a downgrade size wise as they are now in a 75x40x40cm tank) but in return I think the layout is better and they are alone in the tank save for a small school of green neon tetras. Still don't know if one can determine their sexes for sure and it might aswell be ...

Setting up a new tank and considering using some lava rocks I found, they are quite sharp think they are called "loa rock". My concern is if the corydoras I am going to put in the tank could be at risk hurting themselves on the rocks? Going to have plenty of open space with sandy substrate...

A pic from the feeding this morning, they look healthy to me and I hope I can be able to keep the rest. Picked up a leftover from the store so now they are in total 6. If I keep having problems with them I think I will just try to rehome the group and accept defeat. On a tangent, I am no more experi...