My vals have melted haha.. so bad.
But water is clearing up though I have to dust off my plants daily still with a pipette or wipe them off with my hands to clear the dust off. Thinking after next water change I can remove the carbon bag.
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Had a pleasant surprise today to my cherry barbs spawning again, though I failed to collect any eggs from them. When I took the hornwort mass out to fish for barb eggs, I found a bunch of
Weitzmani corydoras eggs! Third species of cories to spawn this week in this tank. First community spawning for my weitzmani too. And I know its them because the eggs were double the size of the paleatus and trilineatus eggs and were laid singly instead of in pairs or groups. Havent been successful with the eggs from the weitzmani before, though ive gotten them to spawn easy, just the eggs don't usually make it. So fingers crossed.
The larger eggs are the weitzmani eggs. The dark ones are paleatus due to hatch soon. Some trilineatus mixed in too. Planning to separate the eggs and hatched fry since there's a few days difference between them, but have them in a net over the sponge filter in my fry tank (contains aeneus cory and paleatus cory babies already, plus some baby sparkling gouramis.
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My poor hoplos whiskers. Gotta grow back soon, but so sad to see.
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So sorry to read that. My big female albino longfin is one of my favourite fish -- they have lots of personality and are easy to get attached to.
glad all is going well with this beautiful tank.
