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Rainbow shiners? Anyone kept these before? I know nothing about them yet, just saw a short that had some, thought they were stunning, putting the name here to remind me to look them up! :D

Whoops, just realised you said hasbrosus, not paleatus! That's the trouble with common names, I just assumed you meant paleatus and didn't see hasbrosus, sorry! :lol: Habrosus are on my "want to keep" list too! Their profile on Seriously Fish will give you most all you need to know about them...

Keeping fingers crossed for you! The eggs do seem to be developing, so that's a promising sign anyway. You might want to wait on getting more cories, just in case you wind up wanting to keep a load of the babies :lol: But as for choosing another corydoras species; What's your water hardness...

That all sounds great! :D Since she's the only one showing signs, would be worth putting her in a hospital/QT tank set up and medicating just her in there. Save you money on medication rather than treating the whole tank, won't knock back your BB cycle in your main tank, and gives her a good...

As their QT period is reaching an end, now considering what's next! Once the QT is free. High priority is a friend or two (and still looking for a name!) for this fella :D I checked whether the nearest store, a large aquatics based chain store, had them. They do! Said they were a little...

It varies according to species, temperature, a few factors! :D If these are aeneus (bronze/albino mutation of bronze) corydoras eggs (not sure which species of cory @Coryking keeps, if more than one?) then usually 4-5 days. Laid Wednesday, so would hope for wrigglers happening on Sunday or...

Oh, and do you have any live plants in there? Adding some fast growing stem plants will help improve water quality, as well as making the fish happy :) Would be worth adding some fast growing stem plants like elodea, guppy grass, water sprite, limnophilia sessiflora... not difficult plants, but...

I'm sure I remember a friend here who had lemon tetras had a problem with them being nippy- but I don't know the species well, @GaryE would know a lot more than I do about them. Have you seen any nipped, ripped or damaged looking fins on any of the others? When I've had nippier fish, they went...

Welcome to the hobby and the forum! :D :hi:

I agree that I'd like to know the complete stocking of the tank before adding salt or other medications. I see at least one tetra, and some species can be very nippy. No point treating the tank with expensive meds, if they're only going to continue to be nipped! So please can you list what...

Normal for the eggs to change colour like that as they're developing, if they're not fertilised they remain bright white, but turning that tan colour means they're fertilised. :D Keeping fingers crossed for you that you get some wrigglers hatching soon! Usually 4-5 days for aeneus eggs...

It's not just a problem in her though. If she has them, they all have them. The protruding worms drop eggs that the other fish eat, grow their own worm burden. Many can survive for months, even years while carrying worms, but not always, and fish suffering from the lack of nutrients and internal...

Are those all your tanks?? 😍 😍 😍 Yes! Sort of like that. I don't have a solid scape in mind yet, and might be less extreme than that, more like a hill like that, but with more of a slope down, so it's like a river bank or similar... But I think it would all be the same concept in terms of...

@MattW I'd love to pick your brain more about planted substrate and creating levels in tanks too! I've chickened out of doing it so far, and this betta tank is too small really, but for ages I've had some Tetra brand soil substrate, I have mesh bags I can fill with gravel or planted substrate...

It's always an evolving thing! :lol: Plus depends on how much you want to create an aquascape, vs keeping and potentially breeding fish. I want some pretty tanks and nice plants, but also keeping corydoras and ancistrus and wanting to breed them, sometimes the plants have to be secondary! But...

Thank you, that's good advice! Funny, I was watching a few aquascaping videos while messing with spider wood last night, and George Farmer said much the same thing! But also that he wants the plants to be doing the majority of the work in cleaning the water, and balanced with light stocking. So...

How goes things with your cory eggs, @Coryking ? :D

Still have a few bits to play with, but was playing with super gluing some bits of loose spider wood together, and while not done and would obviously have plants like some moss attached to it, I quite like how it's shaping up! Not for the betta tank, he's having the mopani piece, but the pygmy...

The right meds for certain health conditions can be hard to get in Canada, I know which meds in the UK would treat these (although with any sign of worms in livebearers, I'd treat for both round and flatworms, since it's entirely possible, even likely, that they have both). But whether...

Camallanus worms... I'm so sorry!! They're very distinctive, with looking like the bristles from a ruined, red paintbrush protruding from the vent

Heater at 20:40 is turned right down but water at 77-78 degrees F and red light still on, so giving it another hour and see where it's at. Try turning it the opposite way if it's still climbing and turned on.

Think the heater that this little tank came with might be busted/untrustworthy. Just doing another test on it now. Not a big deal if it is, I have a 50W I can transfer with the betta, but want to make sure it's no good before I bin it, and make sure to get another back up heater soon. Not such...

It is hard to see from the photos - if you could raise the background blanket thing or use some dark background of some kind behind the fish, it'll be easier to get a clear photo of the fins and the fishe's general body condition. Take dozen's of photos, aim to get some in focus, delete the...

Haha! Not an airpump, or something, I don't know! But there's nothing at the moment to pump water up into the filter boxes in the hood of the tank, you know? Judging by the amount of small internal filters she included with the tank too, I don't think they were using the space in the hood. I...

Oh my goodness! I've never seen these before, even as an oto nut, and now I want some so badly! 😍

A bottle brush is good for sweeping up and removing hair algae! Might find increasing flow (and more gravel vaccing), some faster growing plants to help outcompete the algae, along with manually removing the hair algae should help. At least, those things got rid of hair algae in my tanks...

I did snap off some smaller pieces from the longest branch ends, so sanding those down too before going ahead with building the scape proper would be a good idea. You're right about the spindly pieces of spider wood too. Having said that, I've also boiled this spider wood for ages, and I'm...

The votes for mopani will save me a lot of cussing trying to tie/glue spider wood together, so that's something too! :rofl:

Mine would sometimes do that (more often I had hair algae grabbing into it, as @GaryE had, when in low flow area). I used to make a tree" before which I liked for a long time, but yes it can be a debris trap (shrimp help prevent that, depending on what else you're stocking), but hair algae was...

Just for ease of comparison, bearing in mind these are all weighed down with stone just to give a rough idea, not a final arrangement! Would love opinions from @CassCats @Naughts @Fishmanic @sharkweek178 @Uberhoust @Alice B @ClownLurch Spider wood Or mopani:

It needs some time to waterlog, but probably would do that quicker than the spider wood will! :lol: While I'm boiling the spider wood, cleaning dragon stone, and letting the mopani waterlog in the tank (still adjusting the heater in there, it did get to 80 pretty fast, just turned it down a...

Alternative- this piece of mopani that could be held down and emerge from a dragon stone pile. . Plants would hide equipment. Preferences? Mopani piece, or spider wood? 😁

Cleaning dragonstone while boiling the spiderwood... I hate cleaning dragonstone! Oh well. It's worth it in the end :D