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Aye, I can't get Furan nor Kanaplex. Not easily. My only other animal is a horse, so it's not like I even have contacts with small animal vets. And I'm not sure my equine vet would give me antibiotics for my fish. If he hasn't already thought that I've lost my mind, he would definitely start. I...

What is this white cottony growth on the cory's mouth? Behaving normally. Water parameters all kosher. Ammonia/nitrites/nitrates = 0. Ph 6.2 Temp 23. It was recently added to the tank along with its five pals, which look fine. Looks like fungus. Treat with salt and/or this stuff...

Your rubberlip pleco and gold ram aren't the most compatible of fish. The pleco needs cool, highly oxygenated water with a fair bit of flow, as it comes from high altitude streams in the Andres, whereas the ram needs warm water and virtually no current. I got a rubberlip plec last month and...

What shutter speed and ISO are you usually using?

It was Pets at Home, which is worse! But when you don't know anything, you don't know what you don't know.

Yeah, I bought them by accident. Apparently they're super rare in the hobby. I went into the LFS to pick up a corner tank to rehouse the cherry barbs, and the lass who owns the shop said, "I know you like unusual corys. Come look at these." Oh, dear. A quick glance at Seriously Fish, and I...

How do you get your lovely photos? Camera? Settings? I cannot seem to take good fish photos. I tried to take stills, but that was hopeless. These are screen shots from a video, which aren't great, and most of it looked blurry whenever you paused the video. The bottom two are corydoras carlae. I...

I have aphyosemion australe, or lyretail killis in a 125L. Killis are great wee fish. They were being regularly harassed by the barbs, along with the pygmy corys and corydoras habrosus. They would even try chasing the apistogrammas, though the apistos would sometimes give as good as they got...

What's in the bag? A killifish? I can't quite tell. My cherry barbs were causing hassle to their tankmates. Thought about rehoming, but ended up buying a third tank. This is how people end up with like seven tanks.

My longfin bristlenose's tail looks like it has split into four strips. It's very clean and not at all ragged or sore, but I'm assuming that it's damaged and not that the fish has grown her tail like that, although it's so clean that it could be the latter. I tried to get a photo but the fish...

It eats algae off the plant and sometimes damages the off leaf, but the plant overall does well.

My female bristlenose never digs in the substrate, and she's active most of the day. I leave her a courgette (zuccini) overnight.

In other words, drink a dram of whisky 3-5 times per day. I can get behind that.

Ended up running a second tank because the cherry barbs looked like they were going to hassle the longfin bristlenose pleco. I never let them actually get as far as nipping. As soon as they started following the plec around and attempting to nip (the plec would scurry off before they did damage...

I changed a 125L and then half a 240L. I think the process was as follows: 1. Clean sand in a bucket. I used the bathtub and rinsed it until the water was no longer cloudy. 2.Remove rocks, logs, and other decor. Then scoop out old substrate. 3. Take out circa 50% of tank water (as if doing a...

Leave it. I don't think rams are brilliant in high flow tanks.

My tank runs a Fluval 307 and a Fluval U4. Don't know the filter you have or if it's similar in size and flow. To be honest, they did a perfectly adequate job for the corys, tetras, and bristlenose pleco. I only got the powerhead because the rubberlip requires very specific conditions, and I was...

I just put in a Hydor Koralia powerhead because I got a rubberlip pleco, which lives in fast-flowing streams, and after lots of digging around the internet, that seemed like the easiest way to create the right conditions. I set it up about about a third of the way along the tank and aimed it to...

My eggs are SOL. I think they got fungus and died. Hoping our fish spawn again soon and give us another chance. And they need to do it when we're around because we have things in that tank which will hoover up eggs in seconds. I set up my hospital tank with a sponge filter, scraped the eggs out...

Mine might have fungus. &(&)^*(*()##

My black corys spawned yesterday (I think it was them, rather than the CW045s). I moved the eggs to the hospital tank, which I filled with water from main tank. The sponge from the sponge filter has been living in my big Fluval 307 so should have plenty of bacteria. I'll add an Indian almond...

Me too. She's chilling with the barbs, killis, apistos, etc. and being left alone. She eats food which falls near her but doesn't dart about for it, like black phantom tetras normally do, and her swimming is awkward and laboured. Poor fish. One question... when the fish was injured, the male...

But do those two filters and the airstones provide sufficient oxygenation for that species? Or is it worth adding another bit of kit like a powerhead? To increase it at this point, I would need to add equipment as both filters are turned up to maximum flow.

I've recently acquired an L187b pleco (Chaetostoma formosae or rubber lip pleco). According to Seriously Fish, it requires well-oxygenated water as it comes from fast flowing streams: "Most importantly the water must be clean and well-oxygenated at all times so we suggest the use of an...

Yeah, cheers Colin. When I've had to euth a fish, I've used the clove oil method. I think I would be too squeamish about inflicting blunt force trauma on a fish and would probably screw it up. But ideally, I would like to not have to euth this tetra. Fingers crossed it recovers in the...

About a week ago, one of my male black phantoms was aggressively pursuing one of the females, and the female crashed into the filter outtake and was injured. I was watching them, and it all played out in front of me. She struck the filter at speed and suddenly started swimming ponderously and...

It's the same size as the others and looks okay on visual inspection.

One of my c. trilineatus has been hovering on the surface of the water with its nose poking out, blowing bubbles, whenever the tank lights go off. It doesn't go up and down very much -- it just stays there. I have seventeen corys of various species in this tank, and this is the only one which...

Yes, I've had a Shire-TBX mare for about 20 years. Used to show dressage but now we just school it a bit and hack. Having fish makes me appreciate my vet immensely. If I'm concerned about anything, I can speak to an expert, with training, rather than Dr. Google and internet forums.

Aye, I know how academic publishing works, and I've spent many hours on Google scholar. ;) I have a PhD (and two masters!), albeit in history/sociology of science-ish rather than science, and nothing to do with biology or zoology, and perhaps that explains where I'm going with this. That is...

Thanks, Byron! Great info. So, in other words, for a fish to be named, someone has to look at its external characteristics, dissect it, test its DNA, and then get a paper published....where? In an icthyological journal? Or does the ICZN have its own publications? If a fish is undescribed, it...

You might be. ;) I think CW stands for Corydoras World. That seems to be the main hub of corydoras knowledge and research, but one needs to be a paid member to access most of their papers and information. Looks really interesting, but I might be too cheap and not geeky enough, yet. On the...

Aye, those markings are close indeed. The dorsal fin on the CW045s is a lot longer and pointier. They occasionally shoal with the false julii corys, but haven't shown any interest in the black corys. Similar body shapes?