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I've bred one of the many you listed! :lol: Would love to know the method you used to spawn and raise fry from the pseudomugils... breeding some of those is next on my want list! Although I think I'll be beginning with the red neon, P.luminatus 😍 Or how you bred the first non-artificially...

Will give that a go! That's kind of how mine ended up! After unsucessful gluing (well, it lasted a while, but eventually all came off) to a piece of bogwood, it kept floating again. As it was during mum and dad's health decline, and it was outcompeting my other floating plants, I tried to...

See?? This is another talent of yours I've missed so much! Not only brilliant at breeding, but taking incredible, clear, progress photos! I can't get over how tiny and adorable they are in those early days! Then when they finally start to get the recognisable colouring 😍 TY for the planting...

It's spider wood, came in a load of little branches inside a pack, one slighter large piece I already had, so I weighed that down with the dragonstone and poked in the spiderwood sticks to get an idea of how it might look. Thinking I'll wind up keeping the brighter, more orange pieces of...

Glad the votes were for darker substrate, since I couldn't be patient enough to wait for opinions, and went for the darker one myself!:😁 Not a final Scape, extra dragon stone to try to hold the non- waterlogged wood down. But a rough idea of what I'm thinking of, pre-planting. Will be able to...

Can't decide between dark or light sand - both aquarium safe, I have dragonstone that will contrast nicely with the space Unipac black limpopo sand I have (which is more a slate grey, not a dark black) Or the light sand, either unipac silver I usually use in my pygmy cory tank, or Argos...

Thank you!! Was just lucky and came across it for sale when hunting on Gumtree for something better for Levi @Naughts you won the naming contest! Although I also think of Gainsborough as his surname, @TwoTankAmin The lady agreed to deliver it, got to chatting, especially how she couldn't keep...

Also came with 4-5 other mini internal filters that all need cleaning and testing, but I'm impatient, began with testing the stingray and it seems to be working, so testing the others can wait while I look at the pretties I want to add to make it a proper tank! :lol:

Eeekk! Now there's pressure to make sure it's pretty! :lol: ❤️ :friends:

And finding what hardscape I have that will fit a teeny tank like this and suit a betta... hmmm....

Currently testing heater & stingray elite 5 filter that came with it, temp from tap is bang on 70, can't see numbers on heater sadly, but at least it's a small tank to test it out in. Stingray appears to be working! Trying at surface right now, but might be too much surface flow for a bettas...

Haha! This is all brilliant to know, thank you!! So this is my male being a randy male, then? :lol: He's not in with the girls yet, although they are in a tank just across the room within eyesight of each other, maybe they've been flirting... still, a good sign, I think! I also didn't know...

I think he disapproves of the siamensis 53B being where it was... :lol:

Rough pics from the ancient 57g that's stood here for must be close to two decades now. More than a decade, anyway. After removing the plastic cover, the gap in the hood where two filter boxes and a pump fit. Looks like the mini one to me: And one of those boxes. I remember when it used to...

You can see he's in that pleco cave, and the sand has been cleared/piled more dramatically over the last couple of days! He does use the darker brown pleco cave to sit in sometimes too. No adult females with him yet though, since it's still QT How it looked before

You pleco keeping experienced folks like @TwoTankAmin @CassCats @DoubleDutch and @Naughts - are males more prone to "rescaping" their tank than females, by chance? Photo to follow, but my two girls I raised since 2020 tend to just stick to their preferred driftwood hideouts, and don't really...

Well, second hand! New to me. Have just given it a more thorough clean and descale after soaking in vinegar with paper towels, then going over it with a carefully angled razorblade. Using phone to upload pics, then will switch to laptop for more detail (I'm such a luddite, and hate typing on...

Alder cones, cattapa leaves etc also meant to help reduce chances of fungus... they are prone to fungus, so being able to separate out the eggs a bit, examine them with a good light or even magnifying glass and remove any that have fungus growing, to try to prevent it spreading to other eggs...

Me too...! I see the benefits of them, but especially if your tank is heavy with driftwood?? Bah. Mine feasted on the driftwood, where I don't mind the aged algae look, pooped tons then went dormant for long periods while digesting all that, then went right back to the driftwood. Which they then...

There is always that option to. Could give them better chances of survival by adding more hardcape and dense plants the adults can't easily find the fry in, like lots of moss, leaf litter (which will also encourage microcritters the fry can live on in between feedings from you) and try to hide...

What kind of breeder box? Almost all I've seen on the market are really designed for livebearers. They'll contain newborn guppies/mollies/platies etc, but egg layers like cory fry are like tiny little insects when they first hatch, and the gaps in the breeder box mesh netting, or slits in the...

Lots of useful info in this thread, along with a lot of waffle! Just skim past waffle for any info you find useful. The stuff by NCAquatics is most useful. This started when mine first spawned unexpectedly, and I managed to raise some babies, so every faith that you can too, if you want to! If...