70L Low-Tech Set Up

[coldcazzie]

Still no habrosus or Apisto's , so I came home got on my bike and went for a ride round a small farming village a few miles away, and low and behold there was a sign outside a small cottage saying fish for sale, so I went in and there were a few tanks with fry in and they were selling Corydoras panda fry for 50P each, so I took 6. Riding back with them was a little tricky but they're acclimatising now, they're about 2-3cm big, and I've never kept them before so I thought why not.

Hopefully these breed for me, I've missed having Corydoras!

Whaaaaaaat?! 50p?!

And you took them home on your bike?! the mind boggles!

 

[StandbySetting]

They were sloshing around in my back pack, made for an awkward ride home though they're in the tank now, hiding so I can't take photo's

When I saw them I couldn't believe the price, There were about 15 or so of them.

 

[coldcazzie]

Are you surprised, really?! lol

The man-wife brought me a fish home on the back of his motorbike once...

 

[StandbySetting]

Here's one of them, the biggest of the 6, the other 5 are scuffling around in the Crypts, apologies for the dirty substrate, but I forgot that Shrimp poo an awful lot!

For comparison the snail is about 4mm in diameter, I guess this one is about 3cm long.

 

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[minnnt]

Can i ask why you didn't buy them all? I would have snapped them all up!!

They look really good anyway.

 

[StandbySetting]

I've added 21 fish and 6 shrimp in the past 3 days and didn't want to push my luck, and they get a little bigger than Habrosus too, if they've still got some next week I'll buy 4 more, but I saw some beautiful Honey Gourami's the other day too and they're now on the wishlist instead of going on a wild goose chase for the impossible to find Apisto's.

I found an egg this morning, it was about 1-2mm in diameter but had fungus on it so I siphoned it out, I don't know if it came in with then when I bought them yesterday or what but I doubt any of these are sexually viable yet.

 

[minnnt]

LOL! What put you off the bloke who was selling them near to you?

 

[StandbySetting]

The fish were a good price, it's just that they weren't very good quality, but the Honey Gourami's I saw at East Midlands Aquatics really caught my eye, they were beautiful.

 

[minnnt]

Oh right. Can't fault you really then. Will be nice to see a group of Honey Gourami's though, there isn't enough of them on the forum!

 

[Ps3Steveo]

Always liked them, one place I always see them but never buy from is pets @ home, I think they'd look good in there.

 

[KkAaNnEe]

Love honey gouramis, tanks lookin good, like the new additions too

 

[lljdma06]

Honey gouramis are beautiful. My first planted tank had them. Get the wild coloration if you can. IMO, a male wild colored honey gouramis is such a beautiful fish.

 

[ian]

the only place i have seen the wild ones is in MA, and infact they had some of the wild ones in East Bridgford!

 

[StandbySetting]

I still haven't gone down there yet, I'll see if I can nip down this week.

The Corydoras are showing signs of breeding, the biggest I presume is a female and I measured her to be just under 4Cm, and a little one keeps trying to sniff her belly, sounds like breeding behaviour from what I've read, but they must be too young to do anything.