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Whether or not fish-in cycling works, Pygmy Corydoras are very delicate fish and an awful one to try this method with. They would probably all die. Please cycle your tank completely before adding these fish. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/cycle-your-tank-a-complete-guide-for-beginners.475055/

I’m planning on getting some pencil fish but I had never heard of this! What does it look like?

Lol I didn’t even look at his face! 😂

Nice, that’s what i thought but I wasn’t sure! They’re one of my dream species. If cost/availability was never an issue and I could just materialize whatever fish I wanted, this is the Cory species I would pick. They’re close to Pygmy cories but look way cooler, and grow a little bit bigger...

I apologize pre-emptively for taking a photo of my tv screen, you can all shame me

Supersonic

@anewbie what’s this fish? Cropped from your photo

Flying:flushem:

Frying

Brian

@Magnum Man When you first started your SA cichlid tank, you posted a picture of the tank with nothing but sand and the background on it, and I replied “nice aquascape!” because I literally didn’t realize it was a background

Yeah I never liked backgrounds with fish in them. Then there’s a bunch of fish visually present in the tank that I didn’t put in there!

Those pictures are messing with my brain, I can’t for the life of me visualize it as a 3-inch fish. They look like large cichlids!

Those are in the same genus as the shelly Neolamprologus? That’s weird

I’m away from home for the week unfortunately and I can’t find the exact model on amazon, but it was just the standard one for the size from Petsmart, I wanna say fluval.

There actually is some fascinating study into the original pronunciation of Latin! Ecclesiastical Latin is more like Latin with a medieval Italian accent. Classical Latin never turned the letter c/g into an s or ch, it was always /k/. And the -um word ending was probably not pronounced “-oom”...

Eyes

It does make more noise when it leans against the tank or the wall, but that’s not what’s happening here. Formerly, when it wasn’t touching either of those things, it was pretty much silent; but now it makes noise even when it’s not touching anything. I might try the washcloth just for damping...

Corydoras=Cory Osteogaster=Osty Aspidoras=Aspy They can all be cute!

My air pump for the sponge filter was almost inaudible when I first got it, but after a week it’s making a decent bit of noise. Is there something wrong with it or is that just how they all are? I’m annoyed it started out quiet if it wasn’t gonna be like that to stay. Did I get a lemon?

Just looked up Aspidoras pauciradiatus and they look awesome!

OHH WAIT that’s shellies! I know them but I didn’t realize their social structure was that complex. I recognized the name Neolamprologus as a tanganyikan cichlid but I thought it was one of the larger ones.

Interesting… I had heard that name before but I didn’t know that about them!

That sort of behavior is one of the things that I live about cichlids, and one of the main reasons I wanted to keep them in the first place! Which makes it a little sad that I’ve determined I’m better NOT breeding apistos considering my current infrastructure (getting a single male instead). I...

I would love to see a fish that’s truly a social creature— like a small nano fish where they either built some sort of hive/nest, or occupied some dense vegetation as their den, and would all pop in and out of it and bring back resources back to the babies inside.

I just had a dream about a really nice fish— it was tiny, like Pygmy Cory size, square in proportion like an angelfish or a discus, with a gourami antenna-fin-thing sticking down, and it was electric blue with accents of white and pink. It was supposed to be the perfect tank mate for Pygmy Cories.

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Those guys are beautiful!

Did they extract the tooth from you, or did they extract YOU from the TOOTH? 🧐🧐🧐

If you keep shrimp with fish, some of the shrimp babies will inevitably be eaten. But as long as you provide cover so some can survive, you’ll be fine. A guppy can’t eat an adult Cherry shrimp.

A beautiful fish!

They did, and I removed some water. The sand all fell in in one chunk and splashed the wall.

What is he?

Sand in!

Aight I have acquired the sand. I’m using Quikrete play sand for those who just tuned in. I put it in a 5 gallon bucket and filled it the rest of the way with water; will wait for the dirt to rise to the top and then drain and refill. I assume that’s how y’all are cleaning it?

Does liquid give a more precise measurement? I use strips, but I’ve been annoyed because my strips’ legend goes straight from zero nitrate (perfect) to 20ppm nitrate (no bueno). I don’t know what the level in my tank really is because any amount of nitrate is going to make it pink, but the...