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by Woodh
22 Sep 2021, 20:15
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Corydoras sp. CW009 "green laser" 200+ eggs, fry and spawners
Replies: 4
Views: 6274

Re: Corydoras sp. CW009 "green laser" 200+ eggs, fry and spawners

Nice! Hope to get there one day myself, may I ask roughly how old your adults are?
by Woodh
07 Sep 2021, 05:21
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Replies: 1391
Views: 510402

Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

I second the notion above! I realise it's not truly your thing, and that you run a rescue of sorts, but has it never been a bit tempting to just use one of all the tanks for something like a massive cory school or why not a 10.000 guppies? Now I would also like to keep large fish one day but I doubt...
by Woodh
06 Sep 2021, 08:06
Forum: Other Catfishes
Topic: Sick corydoras
Replies: 2
Views: 20093

Re: Sick corydoras

I would disable co2+ferts and do a couple of large(slightly cold) waterchanges and see what happens, hope for the best.
by Woodh
04 Sep 2021, 03:47
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

Now I am back with an update and some questions. The corydora(CW009) seems to miracously have made a full recovery and I added two more, so they are 7 instead of 5!, and don't plan to touch that tank for the forseeable future. The big thing for me is that I have ordered a third tank a 95x40x45 centi...
by Woodh
31 Aug 2021, 11:06
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?
Replies: 9
Views: 4870

Re: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?

Nitrite poisoning can cause these symptoms, you say these are new fish in quarantine? Possibly a small cycle spike adding the new fish and the stress of acclimation has left them vulnerable to the symptoms of it, but the weaker one(s) got hit harder. And now that it's bouncing back better, it's lik...
by Woodh
28 Aug 2021, 12:53
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?
Replies: 9
Views: 4870

Re: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?

Hemorrhaging septicemia seems to often be the last step in a chain of afflictions. The fish turns reddish over large portions of the body, the fins turn reddish too. I am not vet but when my fish had it before, I'd say it wasn't contagious, but i recall some peers stating/believing the opposite. It...
by Woodh
27 Aug 2021, 02:09
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?
Replies: 9
Views: 4870

Re: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?

I don't wan't to say too much but looks like the fish might live after all, at the time I wrote the original post it was laying on top of the internal filter upside down and breathing from the surface. After a day and a half in a bucket with some catappaleaves and very oxynegated water I decided to ...
by Woodh
25 Aug 2021, 13:46
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?
Replies: 9
Views: 4870

Re: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?

I did isolate it in a bucket with a cycled spongefilter and now when I woke up it swims around like always I don't really know what to do, don't have a heater for it either since the aquarium they(the cw009) are in is infact the quarantine guess ill have to setup a new quarantine for the future, sad...
by Woodh
25 Aug 2021, 03:57
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?
Replies: 9
Views: 4870

Hemorrhagic septicemia, any tips?

Sadly one of the, cw009, corys I got a handful of days ago have hemmorhagic septicemia, didn't even consider it(and never had to deal with it before) and thought it was either a mechanical injury or something wrong with the water but after pinpointing it I am as sure as I have ever been about diagno...
by Woodh
21 Aug 2021, 18:05
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

My first big setback since being back into the hobby. One of the new corydoras seems to have hurt itself somehow and got a bloody mouth, feels really bad but sometimes life gives you lemons. Anyway not sure what to do, might try to treat it with some salt or anti bacterial. Just wan't to know what c...
by Woodh
20 Aug 2021, 18:57
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Lifetime of your fish
Replies: 6
Views: 3800

Re: Lifetime of your fish

Interested in the subject but got no fun anecdot myself since I am back to the hobby after a long hiatus. Hope others chime in. Sorry about the zebras.
by Woodh
20 Aug 2021, 18:16
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

Surely can't complain about the colors atleast!
by Woodh
19 Aug 2021, 20:11
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

The L134:s didn't show but I couldn't resist buying another corydoras type, the CW009 "Green Laser". I am not so sure I will ever financially recover and the L134s will probably be passed on to someone else, the small tank will just be for the CW009 and maybe a couple of guppy or something...
by Woodh
16 Aug 2021, 21:21
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

Guess it was to obvious, feel really dumb since I thought that I looked careful under that category but then it's literally in the middle of my screen when you show it haha :)

Throwing in a couple of pics on the progress of both "small"+"large" tank!
by Woodh
14 Aug 2021, 20:29
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: Planning major overhaul of tank this week, remove plecos or not?

Hello again! First id like to ask if there is any way you can edit topic title on the forum since I plan to use this thread as a continous one it would be great. Tommorow I plan to pick up a major sized piece of driftwood for the tank, it's hardwood though so I am thinking about if it's ok for the p...
by Woodh
05 Aug 2021, 21:31
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Someting strange inside BN pleco's gills or fake ?
Replies: 5
Views: 2557

Re: Someting strange inside BN pleco's gills or fake ?

Looks like it's simply flaring but got some, rather far progressed, fungal infection? I am totally guessing here just to be clear.
by Woodh
05 Aug 2021, 21:29
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: L104 Clown Pleco - 120 litre (29g US)
Replies: 71
Views: 37082

Re: L104 Clown Pleco - 120 litre (29g US)

Sad ending(?) to the thread but I hope you keep us updated on what's next!
by Woodh
05 Aug 2021, 21:08
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Replies: 1391
Views: 510402

Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

Always top tier videos, wish I also had reptiles lurking around the house! Only downside living in such a climate are the snakes I guess ;) Beautiful fish in matching boxes, I also prefer the natural finage though.
by Woodh
05 Aug 2021, 20:00
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: Planning major overhaul of tank this week, remove plecos or not?

I will just keep using this thread as a kind of ongoing one for my questions, pics and thoughts then people can choose to steer clear or not! :)) One of my L397s got this deformity on it's head, hard for me to tell if it's a birth defect(which I believe) or a case of it getting squished at a young a...
by Woodh
29 Jul 2021, 16:08
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: Planning major overhaul of tank this week, remove plecos or not?

That's what I suspected but you know there is always hope haha ;) Plan on moving sometime next spring so hopefully by then? I also think they look really healthy, atleast if color is a way to tell, but hard for me to judge.
by Woodh
29 Jul 2021, 13:27
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: Planning major overhaul of tank this week, remove plecos or not?

Also is it wishful thinking this one might be female? Looks round over the middle to me but maybe it's to small to tell or not enough with one pic. Not the same fish as in previous pic, I am pretty sure that one is starting to get some hair despite being quite small so should be male?
by Woodh
29 Jul 2021, 13:17
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: Planning major overhaul of tank this week, remove plecos or not?

Was very hard for me to grab them by hand let alone take photos since I was alone, had to grab the last 2 with net since I was to clusmy to catch them otherwise. I suppose pics for possible sexing will have to wait, ill throw this one pic in here as a hello from my plecos! And yes I did find all 6 b...
by Woodh
29 Jul 2021, 07:31
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

Re: Planning major overhaul of tank this week, remove plecos or not?

Anyway I am simply a bit afraid of moving the plecos and how to do it, should I just net them up and place them in a bucket for photo session and will they be fine in there for an hour two? Should I place them in a larger container with spongefilter/airstone? Maybe it's best to just let them be in ...
by Woodh
28 Jul 2021, 17:14
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 18732

A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

Finally it's happened! A large piece of driftwood sank after about 5 months in and out of the shower in my bathroom! =)) So I ordered and recieved a couple of additions to the aquarium in form of a second spongefilter, better airpump and a couple of other minor things, also some attachment for remov...
by Woodh
22 Jul 2021, 07:31
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Replies: 1391
Views: 510402

Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

So might be slightly off topic but are you going to be able to harvest som caviar? Haha.
by Woodh
15 Jul 2021, 03:13
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Replies: 1391
Views: 510402

Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

Very impressive. How come that sturgeon is so docile?
by Woodh
13 Jul 2021, 01:07
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Adding fish to my aquarium, need help to choose!
Replies: 17
Views: 7398

Re: Adding fish to my aquarium, need help to choose!

Hello Stephen! I simply have some trouble getting it colder here during the summer(global warming seems to be a reality) even though I live in Sweden, my little apartment becomes very warm during the summer months so I thought that a stable temperature might be better, but after reading some, while ...
by Woodh
11 Jul 2021, 22:21
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Is this Corydoras esperanzae
Replies: 5
Views: 2017

Re: Is this Corydoras esperanzae

Really green looking in the picture, where did you find these?
by Woodh
11 Jul 2021, 21:31
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Adding fish to my aquarium, need help to choose!
Replies: 17
Views: 7398

Re: Adding fish to my aquarium, need help to choose!

And here I wanted a reason for a larger tank, guess some smaller ones will have to do! :D
by Woodh
11 Jul 2021, 19:09
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Adding fish to my aquarium, need help to choose!
Replies: 17
Views: 7398

Re: Adding fish to my aquarium, need help to choose!

So ive ordered fish(found a way to make the LFS get the fish and then I go and pick up the bag in the morning) ended up ordering 10 Corydoras Sterbai(very small this time of the year supposedly) and 5 additional Lemon Tetras. Anyway I would like your opinion on if this might be overstocking the tank...

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