Search results

One of the cories is very old and probably doesn’t have much longer to live. She is leftover from a group of 11 from many years ago. Being a lone cory, over this past summer I did feel sorry enough to bring home 4 more younger cories. There are no cardinals in this aquarium.

Yes, I’m very sure it is not a stunted or deformed ember tetra. I purchased all of them together about a year ago. They were all plump, brightly colored and healthy, normal sized and mostly female. I only had 2 males, possibly 3 out of the batch of 12. I did lose one female who developed a...

That is a beautiful fish.

I have been away from home for nearly a month but have been able to stop by the house daily to drop food in for my aquariums. I am finally home for a few days and was sitting down there with one of my aquariums last night when I noticed what appears to be a young ember tetra, roughly half the...

The betta has made it through a quarantine and has been enjoying his life in the 38 gal aquarium with all of the nano fishes. He hangs out in one of the cave areas built with layers of driftwood. He also spends a lot of time swimming and hunting in the thick java fern jungle area of the...

I really do want to give it a shot. My backup plan would be to put my skittles shrimp into the tank with the nano fish and then use the little shrimp tank for the betta. I guess it is a mahachiensis betta, green alien. I have gone to look at it yesterday and today. This is a pic of the...

Thank you, CassCats. I appreciate your info and feedback. The kubotai I roughly the same size as the neons and embers, but they are a lot faster than everything else in the aquarium. I doubt the betta could catch them. The other thing faster might be the Siamese algae eater. I would...

I have fallen in love with the look of those gorgeous alien bettas. It’s been many years since I have had a pet betta. When I did have one, the fish lived alone and its own small aquarium. I have a 38 gallon aquarium now that has many nano fish in it. Roughly 10 to 15 each of ember tetra...

Today marks one week and so far all three are doing well. I've been keeping an eye on their bellies and I'm not sure if I have enough algae naturally in the tank for them to graze on, so I've tried dropping in thinly sliced zucchini and the only thing that attracted was the little snails that I...

Honest to goodness, this little one just wriggled himself free. Thank goodness!! It is resting now in the hornwort. I'm so relieved. It seems to be resting and I can see it is breathing faster than the others right now. I'm going to let it rest now. The day before yesterday I heard a...

I'm brand new to otos and when my SAE jumped out of my tank and got eaten by my dog I wanted to get a replacement that would do a similar job. Since I only have a 30 gal I obtained 3 otocinclas affinis. Checking the water from the LFS, it was at 1600+ TDS (WOW!!!!) and they were going into my...

I see copepods in my shrimp tanks all the time. I’ve always wanted them in my fishtanks and I would’ve purchased a supply of them if I would’ve found a vendor that sold them. I also have seed shrimp, but they are in a jar of green water on my window sill. Here is a couple of pictures I took...

The new fish arrived and 2 kubotai were lost over the past week. They were small and it may have been the stress of shipping. I heard they are more sensitive than the neons. The tank is definitely more active and much more interesting to watch. That was exactly what I was hoping for and I...

I have 2 fish tanks and 4 shrimp tanks. The fish tanks receive the same types of food, a huge variety. The only tank I ever see that surface slick on is the open top aquarium in my library. It has an airstone on full blast in one corner and a AquaClear 50 HOB with a prefilter added as an...

No, the leaves should not cause that. I use catappa leaves and lots of other botanicals in all 6 of my tanks and they haven’t caused that. My open top tank does however get something like that every once in a while. At the risk of sounding like a nag, I do ask others in the house not to spray...

A scud is an amphipod, which is similar to a tiny shrimp of sorts. They are a great part of a cleanup crew and fish like the electric blue acara would definitely eat them if they saw them swimming around. They are a healthy live food snack for fish. In my opinion one cichlid can make a nice...

I just went downstairs and sat with them for a little bit. They weren’t hiding, they were spread into all 4 corners of the tank doing their own thing. The cory and the SAE were swimming around. I had already fed them today, about 5 hours ago, so they were relaxed and just swimming around...

Hi @Colin_T thank you so much for your insightful reply. I am awaiting the arrival of the kubotai rasboras today, along with the green neon tetras, a total of 30 new fish to add to the aquarium. Most of the plants are ephiphytes growing on driftwood and yes, I usually pull out all of the...

First and foremost, look into getting fish that will thrive in your type of water. If you have hard water, know your parameters so you can research the species you plan to acquire. Yes, I was going to say I wouldn’t put 2 plecos in your tank. One is plenty and they are quite messy. I loved...

I have a 38 gallon with 12 embers (down from an original 18 purchased a year ago) who mostly hide amongst the plants until food comes. There is an active Siamese algae eater and one lone cory leftover from an original 11 (this is an old cory). There is also 4 glass catfish and they mostly hide...

It is harder to see the eggs in some red shrimp. But you can pretty much tell because if a shrimp has eggs, they’re moving their swimmerets.

I think the scuds in my aquarium was one of the reasons that my cories laid eggs. That, and the water change I did right as a thunderstorm was rolling through. I have Petros in my angelfish aquarium, and the only time they get them is if the angelfish didn’t see them and the sign wasn’t hot on...

You might be surprised. I pull some of them out with every water change when I gravel vac. I used to get upset and try to put them back in but I’ve yet to do a gravel back without seeing them so they’re surviving pretty well and not causing any harm, so I’m happy.

I am trying to avoid having 63 shrimp in my 2.5 gallon aquarium so I was looking online for options. I went to the pet store the other day and was even looking at those cheap plastic critter keeper containers, figuring i could at least observe new shrimp there before adding them to one of my...

Well, I just tried. Make that 77 scuds looking for a new home. The angel sucks them out of my turkey baster and he won’t let it go. They are eaten so fast the scud doesn’t have a chance. The Siamese algae eater is right there to get what the angelfish misses (which isn’t much). I think I’ll...

(FYI) Hikari Shrimp Cuisine - minimum 40% protein Hikari Crab Cuisine - minimum 30% protein Hikari Algae Wafers - minimum 30% protein None of my other containers of things I feed my shrimp specify.

Oh geez, I can probably get a movie of that for you right now. LOL If you’re interested in scuds, I’ve got 81 right now that I’m looking to rehome and I’m adding to that number daily as I hunt them out of my shrimp tank. Just send me a PM.

I’ve collected another 81 scuds to be rehomed. They are living in a Solo cup next to the aquarium with one dwarf water lettuce in there and some plant scraps. I am keeping several colonies for myself, but these 81 scuds were farmed out of my shrimp tank and I don’t want them in my shrimp tank...