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One of the wild caught otos in the quarantine has obvious signs of bacterial infection. Is much darker, lying on side or on its back,... I cant catch it, for that it is still too active, and it tries sucking on stuff but I think it doesnt hold with his sucker and sometimes falls down. I dont...

I dont feel qualified to answer, all I can tell you is, I have only 8 of them now in 150l and they are super lively! Maybe look in the vietnamese minnows, same fish, smaller dimensions? Then you could easily do 10 I guess. Hope someone else answers

I have no real practice yet, since I have had them for 3 days only, but even I have seen a spawning behavior :) I have the gold variant, the males have yellowish tops of the fins and flash the fins, females do not. Otherwise it is the male is a slender, female is rounder difference I translated...

Sucky quality, I know, dirty glass but look at them I know, it has been two days, even the hatchetfish are sometimes all over the tank panicking, but the otos so far look good

You may be right in the choices, ofcourse most people still go with the boring neons, angels, discus, run of the mill fish. But two that I am following have a tank with Pseudomugil luminatus and Gastromyzon punctulatus, the other one has a Devario aequipinnatus and Danio Sysphigmatus, and I...

Granted looking at it at this moment it looks empty :) I am currently happy about adding the corydoras, they look absolutely awesome in the numbers though i have to wait for them to calm down and destress. Maybe in a year i will consider the nannostomus even if the hatchetfish work out. I need...

I was actually not planning to add anything to the american tank, unless the hatchetfish don't work. I think the tank is pretty stocked to capacity. My gh is 6,73°dH according to the water supplier website and some drop tests that i did. I was more interested in the possibilities of the 54l...

I know it has been only few hours but the one identifiable male is flashing !! To females but to the rasbora too :)) so cute, so in love I think there is only one other male and he is being chased by the other, but hopefully it will calm down

Quick phone pictures, the gold variant is a good choice, may have to dim the lights a bit though, it is impossible to take a good picture of them. The rasbora is perplexed by their presence, the multifasciatus couldnt care less

Hi, so I hope you are ready for a brainstorming question, because after leaving the LFS I now want a lot of fish and am going a bit crazy. First off, let me present my tanks. I have: "South America" tank 120cmx50cmx60cm - 360l, with 50 ember tetras, 20 sterbai corydoras, 6 hatchetfish, 2...

I just came back from the (not so local) LFS and I am like ready to cry, cause that was way worse than kid in a candy store. So many fish, I want all of them at home. I am 95% sold on the fact that I will not be getting rid of the fourth tank ( currently quarantine) and that I will most likely...

I have 10 original and 10 new, will not be able to tell which ones are stressed and which are not, so no worries there. Had to take all the plants out of the tank and net them anyway, cause the bottle trap worked only on two of them. So typical :) I ended up doing a water change on the main tank...

So, time has come to move my 10 sterbai corydoras from quarantine to the main tank. I am interested in your opinions on the following: 1. should I do water change in the main tank before adding new fish 2. how important is to acclimate to the main tank, when in theory, the quarantine should have...

BTW, I got cured of my idea of otos being algae eaters when I got the first batch of 10. Sucking on frozen cube of daphnia or cyclops, bug bites, bloodworms,... Sure they hang out on the glass and the leaves and like the spirulina tablets. But so do the tetras or corydoras, and they eat...

BTW my quarantine corydoras, excuse the horrible picture, the algae on the glass makes it hard and I know the foam under is disgusting and my main tank sterbai

I am getting a Carnegiella marthae, 10 pieces. I already had 15 of them last year from the same store and same supplier, though they were sold to me as marbled hatchetfish. When I got them last year, I put them in the main tank, as they were the "first' inhabitants and they had no fin damage, no...

Yup, the sterbai are tank bred in same or similar water as is mine. And yes, the main tank has other hatchetfish, filter shrimps, some amano and sensitive snails, so medicating the main tank is out of question. I did an esha2000 a year ago for some fungus on some sterbai and lost a bamboo shrimp...

I have another conundrum to ponder with you guys. It has been two weeks today, since the sterbai went into the quarantine. They look ok, but 2 weeks is the minimum, I know that. However, the shop ordered my new fish a bit too early, so I have 10 hatchetfish, wild caught, waiting for me for...

Two months after the main tank has had the bloom of hair green algae, the issue is even worse. I stopped using fertilizer altogether. My plants have never been better. Limnobium, which I could never keep for long before, sprouts new rosettes that are looking nice, no brown stains. Naias doubles...

Thanks. I worry a bit though, since I want to keep this tank, in this setup, with this snail, and have 3 african dwarf frogs. They too will leave uneaten food I guess, but not sure if to sustain the snail. I heard from other keepers, some have similar experience with faunus ater, some do have it...

not ramshorns, just the other one Physa acuta and some Melanoides tuberculatus in the one with substrate. Anything that was on the plants or in my other tanks. I keep the more interesting snails in my fishtanks, as it is easier to control

BTW I have something similar you have, though I sort of forgot about it for a while since I am too busy I have a 40l vase, with hornwort, near the window, and I also have a 3l jar, with substrate. Both houses pond snails. It doesnt have a heater, and air stone or anything, just water in a jug...

I will, had to postpone the water change to today, I usually put in cold water from the tap very slowly to the tank, to equalize, but this time will also use some heated up water at 30 or 35° to mix in. Still the heater is holding at 24 and that is good work, given it has to fight against 7...

Today, during feeding, I noticed one of my 50 ember tetras is missing both the tail and the anal and dorsal fins. It is swimming normally and feeding as well, which is why I didnt notice initially. I only have other ember tetras, hatchetfish, corydoras, otocinclus and bamboo shrimp, so I am...

I asked around other keepers and most have same experience with all but albino. Albinos are not shy cause they are basically blind (which btw is cruel) and thus not that scared. They also mentioned cycles of behavior, resting, finding food, sometimes near surface, but most often scared and...

First week of having the fish in quarantine, all is going fine. The fish are in great colors and feed well, no issues. However i read on other forums and articles about corydoras species tanks and how the corries are all over the tank and plants and near the surface. I understand mine are only...

Quick question, did you rinse the new canister media in tap water thoroughly before using in the filter?

A quick update, last one for a while until I get the fish: Day 12 of new tank. Thanks to established filter and some established plants, I so far didnt have any issues that new tanks have. No cloudy water, no algae bloom, no starter fish die off. Yay! I decided to move a Cryptocoryne affinis...