What's New in Your Tank Today?

a velvet swordtail, a few female fancy guppies, and 3 can't remember the name of tetras

 

Quick question James, I picked up a few cuttlebones in attempts to put a chunk in the tank for the snails. Obviously it's floating, is that okay (can't see how it would since snails would be unable to latch on to it)...and if not how do you get it to stay submerged? [confused]

 

It's "ok" to let them float as over time they will sink. However, the best thing to do is to break the chunks off you want and then boil them for a few minutes. Let them cool, then add them to the tank.

 

Cucumbers....gotta give the otos and snails a treat.

 

what does boiling do for them besides the sterilization? Does that help them to sink faster?

 

hey dawn did you find any more albino bristlenose pleco

 

my god, I must have over 50 of the buggers...everywhere I look I see a few sliding up and down the glass! I've got albinos, ones that are blotchy (brown and lighter brown) and solid dark brown ones. I am clueless as to who bred with who (although I am thinking that the longfin albino one that I got which passed on was in on it).

 

well congrats!! thats awsome. if i want my corys to bred do i need anything special?

 

other than a few males and a female or two?

shallower water with frequent water changes.

their egg layers: should lay them on your tank glass, filter intake, heater, or plant leaves

will have to remove eggs so others won't eat them (ie. breeder net)

also, will have very descent size brood of eggs similar to the angelfish.

 

how do you tell the difference?

 

pm'ing you an article.

 

yes.....and....yes

 

The key ingredient (besides the obvious male/female ). Is temperature. They normally spawn shortly after a wc and the temp is a few degrees cooler than the normal tank temp.

 

ok. well i went and got me 2 albino cory cats. i hope i got both sexs. but they are waiting in the tank to get temps the came and everything.

 

yep, i've come across quite a few articles where ice cubes were added to stimulate the rainfall effect to stimulate spawning.

 

Leslie female cory's are often a bit bigger and rounder It's still hard to recognize the sexes though..

 

WooHoo! My first batch of baby shrimp. Found at least (6) babies.

Also added some MTS to my sand tank.

 

8 Black Calvus, A trio of Wild caught Paracyprichromis Nigripinnis, 4 F1 Chalinochromis Popelini, and 4 White Calvus. They're all in a 75g quarantine tank for a week or two.

 

as of yesterday, 3 marbled hatchetfish...3 albino corydoras...3 bronze corydoras...a balloon moss thingy...and some shrimp (can't remember the names but look like a large ghost shrimp with pinchy hands).

 

Alot of unwanted snails