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The super tiny fry survived my absence and I fed it yesterday making protogen culture now However in the morning I found an adult luminatus in the breeding box, as it jumped in. I was sad as I figured the fry is gone, but it is not .I netted the adult male out, saw him jump back in, netted him...

So today i found first fry. It is way earlier than expected and i won't be home until Monday. Ah well, i put a bit first bites in and tried to clean the exces, which may have cost me few eggs from the moss that fell down. Also the place i have the eggs now if they all hatch ..

Dried duckweed. Forgot to scrub it down with a brush in my rush to get the moss in quarantine

Hey i saw few eggs in the moss so I removed that part of the clump to the breeding box and will see in two weeks. I added fresh moss and will check it daily Fingers crossed

I know we have had this discussion regarding feeding before and you recommended fluval bug bites, dennerle crustagran. Sadly Omega is not available here at all What other brands are good for corydoras according to your experience? I also have hikari cichlid gold balls, those seems sort of nice...

I initially wanted to move them separately to feed them up to breed, but then I figured with the size they are at, that will not happen for at least a year. Both batch are from CZ breeders, one commercial, one private. They are popular here, breed fairly well. I do not want to make them fat...

So I did something a bit controversial. Still an advice would be appreciated. At first the idea was to move my sterbais from the main tank in a trio to a separate tank for breeding. However when I visited a recent fish store I noticed that they are selling sterbais in basically the same size as...

I recently (sunday) got a batch of 10 pseudomugil luminatus. I am not sure how old they are, but based on the full coloring, they are not juveniles. I have a 5m/5f ratio and it took the males like 3 hours in the new tank to start sparring/fin showing. I absolutely adore their ear fins, too bad I...

HI all. So I have a 25 liter tank with few shrimp and some indostomus fish. The fish is ready to breed based on behavior and thickness of the females, so I am curious how to increase the infusoria presence in the tank, without overwhelming it with too much organic matter/decomposition/ tannins...

I will try in the evening with a macro camera, so will take me few days

Since there are many experts here I made a video of my indostomus, purchased as paradoxus, that I have had for the past four months They are absolutely adorable, doing well, recently started showing off between one and another, I feel like I can even spot a female Seeing descriptions for...

Thank you! it was an interesting read. I feel like I should be ok, because I always feed within 8 hours of hatching, so they should never reach an instar ii stage. But the inefficiency of feeding with just bbs or microworms is understood, that is why I always supplement with power food, for the...

Thanks for the reply, I basically ended up doing what you advised. I fed several times a day, first two weeks the protogen culture water and hikari first bites, then I started adding microworms and freshly hatched bbs, supplementing still with first bites and sera vipan baby fry food. Within...

Hi, so I just read through your experiments, couple of things from my experiments. I do micro worms / walter worms on both oats or breadcrumbs and tank water. I feed them yeast weekly, collect them with a small paint brush and restart every month or so, they wont last longer. I like breadcrumbs...

I successfully managed to have my minnows spawn in another tank with moss where I put a 3 males 2 females group for 3 days. First fry, which was the largest, I moved back to the community tank just after 4 weeks, no issues! second went 5 days after it, the remaining two I am feeding in the other...

Hi. Last week monday I noticed in my separate tank, 54liters, that houses 13 rabbit snails (3 adults, rest babies), my white cloud minnows spawned. I moved them there the week before and after three days removed them, so it was expected. However. I feed several times a day, some hikari first...

Another update on this :) In december I had 6 hatchetfish. I bought 8 more, 6 survived quarantine, added them to the main tank after that, had 12. 6 months later, I have 8 and again, all loses during the initial period of hierarchy, since then, all peaceful, all hanging at the same side, all...

I have had this particular piece of wood in the tank for close to two years now I think. I had it in my outside water hole for like 4 months to let it sink. I removed the fungus (also some bba there) during today water change and will monitor, how fast it comes back and will go hunt for a...

So I know white fuzz on wood is normal, though usually in new wood or indicating the wood is growing too soft. I do not have the time to remove the piece of wood, as it is large and holds plants. I understand it is harmless mostly to the inhabitants, though I keep removing it during water...

I moved the indostomus and shrimp over weekend. Was surprisingly easy. Shrimps I managed to net, given I only have adults, so not a hard task. Indostomus I moved also very easily, each set of bamboo pipe I took out using my fingers to plug in the entrances, in a different bowl I would pour the...

I decided to move the paradise fish to another tank. While it is not overly aggressive and works quite ok on a day to day basis, during feeding the fish is very territorial, chasing, harassing. I dont think the other inhabitants enjoy it and I am sad to say I made a mistake when I got the fish...

Guys, I need to know your opinion. For now I am considering moving the indostomus to a 25l tank, sandy substrate, some plants, low flow (half a sponge filter and super low air pump), no cover. I wonder, what if I didnt move the shrimp along, and instead got a freshwater clamp to filter feed...

I want to move the fish anyway, because the tank is simply too big for them. Anyway the medications are not easy to come by and when they do have some they are for birds or livestock and have some salts in them or other ingredients. I think I will try no planaria and that one is proven to kill...

They release some sort of toxin to paralyze. It does not hurt adult fish, most fish do not eat them unless tarved, thus making it likely they do not taste well For shrimp however, they stun the shrimp, climb under its shell and eat it. They kill fry of fish and small shrimplets too. In...