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They get sinking pellets and wafers, primarily the black fly larvae Fluval Bugbites and Omega shrimp pellets. Like I said in the OP, they used to get live worms about once per week, but we've gotten lax about that in the last few months because the worms have become hard to get. Now and then I...

They usually get along but can have spats with one another, so it's entirely possible that it could have been injured, then got some kind of infection. Seen at least two of the remaining plecos. They look fine.

It's been a while since I have posted here. All my tanks have been doing well and just pottering along. Until this week. One of my L199s (Hypancistrus furunculus) looked a bit pale and off two days ago. But hard to see what was really going on because plecos hide, though these guys normally pop...

Yeah, I'm going to take a punt with nets. Might try to herd them into a glass or a tupperware. I hate catching fish. When we bought our mystery corys a couple weeks ago, one managed to get its pectoral spine through the plastic bag, and it was quite stuck. I managed to gently push it free...

I get to have fun with cory moving tomorrow. Ugh. Faffing with our tank set-up. Two years after we bought our initial batch of CW045s, the LFS had them again. We had four, originally, and lost one, so now we have three. We picked up three more today and put them into the tank where Everything...

All Ian said was, "Will need a bit of research to sort this one." That was a couple weeks ago. I was at the LFS today. The owner doesn't think they're agassizis, and she knows her corys. If neither she nor Ian think that's the right species, then it probably isn't. Unfortunately, she has no...

We've been in contact with our LFS owner. She's pretty switched on about corys, so I was surprised that these were misidentified as virginae. She said that virginae had previously been in that tank, and they hadn't gotten around to changing the label (whoops... it's very much a mom-and-pop...

Cool. I moved my Aspidoras spilotus into a tank with a Bolivian ram, cherry barbs, and C. adolphi because I was being inundated by fry. We had far more fish than tank space, and catching them to take them to the LFS was an epic. The ram and barbs keep the population in check. My C. metae and...

A couple weeks ago, I picked up some corys from the LFS labeled as C. virginae. They are definitely not C. virginae. I posted photos on the Corydoras World FB page, and Ian Fuller himself said that he didn't have a clue. Doesn't bode well for anyone else, but thought I'd post on here anyway...

The horses are more than enough work. Fish are not actually dangerous if not trained.

Am I the only one who thinks it's a lot less faff to use Latin names (or CW/L numbers for undescribed species) so people know exactly what critters you're talking about? They're not hard to learn.

Yeah, I tried keeping snails in my very soft, acidic water, even adding cuttlefish shells to increase calcium, but their shells eventually deteriorated. It doesn't work. People add corals and all sorts of things to harden their water, but everything else I own is a soft water, Amazonian fish so...

There are plenty of people breeding fish. They're just not on this forum. PlanetCatfish for all your catfish enthusiasts, apistogramma.com for apisto enthusiasts, as well as Facebook groups like Corydoras World. When I've had breeding questions, I search those, not this, because there's a vast...

That was my point as well. When I had a combination of spikey gravel and sand, the corys continued to dig around the gravel and injure themselves. That did not justify keeping the gravel on the grounds that "they don't seem to care, so it must be fine." Corydoras don't have enough abstract...

Horses. I win.

I tried the half and half thing because I had the wrong substrate for corys, and I thought replacing only half the substrate would minimize faff and disruption. Nope. The corys aren't bright enough to *only* dig around in the sand sections, so they still damaged themselves. And because the...

I have N. marginatus, just to be more specific. I tried Nerite snails in the tank. One died and caused an ammonia spike, which led to the sad deaths of a couple pencils. The other disappeared. We dismantled the tank, afraid of another ammonia spike. No sign of it. About a month later, we found...

I was told by people who knew what they were doing to add pencilfish as dithers. I think some breeders have had success with neons or cardinals, but pencils are the overwhelming favourite.

For what it's worth, I've had pygmaeus and habrosus in the same tank for about two years now. The habrosus have spawned. I bought six, lost three in a white spot outbreak, but I now seem to have six again, through zero effort on my part. The pygmaeus have shown spawning behaviour but doesn't...

Yes, they share the tank with pencil fish.

Good luck! I have two Borellii who are not winning any parents-of-the-year awards. I'm pretty sure I have seen spawning behaviour, but after a few days in the cave, both the fish resume normal behaviour like nothing happened. I think they might be eating the fry before they leave the cave. At...

My raphael cats behaved very strangely when I fed them the King British catfish pellets. Manic, pacing up and down the walls of the tank, but not in their normal hunting way. I looked at the ingredients, and it's a lot of chemicals, synthetic stuff (insert jokes about Brexit here), nothing...

Oy. On one of my other forums, the chat veered from elitism in Irish traditional music (the original topic), to the dangers of setting Butane gas canisters (and caravans) on fire. Nobody complained. Forum threads drift. It's what they've done since the dawn of the internet. Why is this even a...

I have about a dozen small corys (pygmaeus, habrosus, carlae) and four Hypancinstrus furunculus (L199) in a 125L tank. It's been going for a while now. Does it have as much activity as my tanks with mid-dwelling fish? No. Are they happy? I hope so. I'm blasting the living daylights out of it...

Not always. I seem to have trained mine to come out during feeding time and I often see them prowling around the tank during the day. That isn't the norm, though!

I have about forty in a grow-out tank and some number -- the original six adults and yet more offspring -- in the main tank. That's meant to be the L199 breeding tank, but I doubt those will breed with the Aspidoras taking over the world. Thinking of shifting the Aspidoras to another tank and...

I can't see it or ID it in your photos, but if it's a striped raphael catfish, it prefers caves. Most of them (not mine) are entirely nocturnal. If you drop some sinking pellets at night, it will find them. Quickly.

Nice to see you back. Want some Aspidoras spilotus to go with your pygmies? I'm being overrun.

My clown pleco (Panaqolus maccus) rarely shows herself. It's what they do. Provide soft driftwood (not hard wood like mopani), preferably more than one type, and throw in the occasional algae wafer, and it will be fine. You can buy algae wafers designed for wood-eating catfish. Mine has never...

Rubber lip plecos, Chaetostoma formosae, are fussy creatures that require very specific conditions to thrive -- high flow, hard water, low 20s sort of temperatures, and a very established tank, not one that's just finished cycling. Bristlenoses, on the other hand, are fairly hardy, adaptable...

Some of my baby A. spilotus, from wild-caught parents, are large enough to start looking for new homes. I have around 30 of them. They're an active, buzzy member of the Corydoradinae family, with the same living and care requirements as most other corys (soft water, sand substrate, a clean...

Yeah, I'm still in a state of shock about the horse.

Sounds easier to deal with than a surprise baby horse. :rolleyes:

Don't have a diagnosis, unfortunately, but in my experience, once they start lying on their sides and twirling through the water, they're gone. Only thing you can do is euth it. Lost a whole wee shoal of trilineatus (which is what that looks to be) over a period of months, even as other cory...

My corys have spawned a few times, and I've done a few different things, with varying degrees of success. 1. C. schulzei. These live with raphael cats, so eggs have no chance if they remain in tank for more than five minutes. Removed the eggs to the 29L bare bottomed quarantine tank. Eggs all...