AllFishNoBrakes

@nabokovfan87 Ya, I work crazy long hours so every night when I’d come home from work I’d take a look at the tumbler and see if I felt like I needed to take anything out. If it was my day off I’d just check throughout the day. And ya, it’s a little goofy, but doing it once per day you get a good feel for it, lol

Hey @nabokovfan87 I’ve used the tumbler for both Cory’s and Angel’s. I’m not expert with the thing, but I did get a spawn of like 35 Cory’s on my last attempt. 1. I didn’t use meth blue in the main tank. I just set up the tumbler in the tank the eggs were laid in. 2. My air was gently. I simply tried to stick the eggs down in the tumbler as far as I could. 3. If any eggs fungus, I’d pull them out. Stop the air, remove the tumbler from the tank, and use a pipette or turkey baster to remove the eggs. 4. Once mine were free swimming I moved them to some breeder boxes in a bigger tank. Free swimming and yolk sac consumed they’re ready to eat, so release them to wherever you plan to raise them. Hope this helps!

Agreed with @Snjchris. I leave it until fry are free swimming and then start to water change it out.

Hey @Rxhart! Welcome to the forum! I breed some Angels. Here what I do: -When I see my pair(s) have spawned, I’ll pull the slate/leaf/whatever they bred on once I’m sure they’re done spawning. Typically, once the pair is fanning the eggs with their fins I’ll pull it. -Slate/leaf/whatever goes into a 2.5 gallon tank with an air stone. This tank gets filled with half fresh water (dechlorinated) and half water from the tank the eggs were spawned in. 2 drops of Methylene Blue, a good chunk of Java moss, a couple little snails, and then I do nothing. The methylene blue helps stop fungus, and if fungus does occur it stops it from spreading. -Wiggler stage comes next. Again, I do nothing. Considering some eggs hatch at different rates I just keep an eye. -As soon as they start become free swimming I do a 50% water change to get the meth blue out of the water. I’ll also use a little pipette or turkey baster and do my best to pull out any fungused eggs, eggs that didn’t hatch, etc. -The yolk sac the new free swimming fry have will last them a couple of days. There is no need to feed until the yolk sac is gone. Feeding here will only foul your water. -Once the yolk sac is gone I feed Hikari First Bites for the first couple days. Once in the morning and once at night. A little goes a long way! I use a cut down straw by gathering some powder in the end of the straw, and then a gentle tap or two is all you need. -After a couple of days I’ll start feeding some baby brine shrimp. First bites in the morning, BBS at night. -Once I start feeding I’ll do a 50% water change every day, or at least every other day to ensure the water quality stays up for the fry. -I don’t have fry trays/a fry system, so once I’m ready to move the fry they either go to a 10 gallon tank, or in breeder boxes. -From here I just continue to feed twice a day and raise them up! Feel free to ask any questions! I love helping other hobbyists!

@Guppysnail Thanks! These Ramshorns live with Pygmy Cory’s and an African Dwarf Frog, so basically there’s nothing to pick at/eat the antenna as the frog leaves them alone. In the tank I never noticed how long they were, but when I took the picture I definitely did. Glad you enjoyed my journal!

@TheSwissAquarist Oh ya. I plan on making mine out of green acrylic yarn wrapped around a cork. I know what I need to do; I just need to actually do it lol

I haven’t kept whiptails, so I can’t speak on that specifically, but I really think it depends on your intentions. For me, I did a species only tank as I wanted them to breed so I could trade them or sell them. I did a 20 long, let it grow a bunch of algae, had some Java moss, and then started with 30 shrimp and just let it go crazy. If you’re wanting to breed/trade/sell I’d say species only. If you just wanna keep some shrimp, and probably produce a few more, you could throw them in with the whiptails and guppies and see what happens. I have shrimp in most of my tanks, but the species only was the one tank that produced a ton.

They’re pretty hands off, in my experience. I feed every other day, and other than that just let them do their thing. I also water change my shrimp tank the least out of any of my tanks. In my experience, just give them time and you’ll have more. Shrimplets are tiiiiiny, so it may not seem like you’re getting more, but I bet you are. Once you notice any berried females it’s game on! @CJs Aquatics Go red to start! You literally can’t produce enough to keep your LFS stocked. I started with 30, and traded hundreds to my LFS. The only reason to start with anything other than red is to potentially get more store credit/shrimp or more $/each if you sell them, but cherry shrimp were an easy proof of concept for me. Now I’m looking to do something else for more store credit per each that I’ve proven I can do reds

Still out here just doing it. Water changes done, scraped some glass, squeezed some sponges in the HOB’s. Did a water change on every tank in the house and was pretty efficient today. Snatched up some snails for the Pea Puffers, and moved a male Panda Angel to hopefully pair with the female again. I’m ready for more Panda babies! Need to make a couple spawning mops to start playing with the Rainbows. I think the Furcata’s are of age, the Praecox still seem pretty young to me but what do I know? Basically nothing is the answer to that question. We keep it moving over here regardless, though.

I think I remember Cory saying in a live stream that they’ve basically maxed out the packaging size, so to add more packets in a box they would have to make new boxes for the packets to come in. Seems like something small to us, but a huge expense to a business. Also, companies are designed to turn a profit, so ya, having to buy another box of meds for that 1 more packet you need is a strategy to sell more and continue to have a business around. Assuming you could use it all before it expired, they do offer big cans of pure meds with a scoop for dosing, but that simply doesn’t make sense for most people.

If money was no object I’d be playing with Kessil lights

I’ve hatched Corydora eggs in mine and didn’t have a problem. That being said, I made sure to only put in the eggs I thought were fertile, and if anything fungus’d I’d pull those out.

@Karen B. The gravel in the picture seems fine to me for Corydora’s, but again I’m a big fan of “I don’t trust the internet and I want to see for myself”. I have a group of Cory’s (that I bred) on substrate that I believe is more sharp than the picture and they’re doing just fine. That being said, I bred them, so I didn’t necessarily feel bad “seeing for myself” if it would work. My Pea’s get fed frozen bloodworms and a mix of pest and Ramshorn snails. While it may not be the “absolute best” diet, it works for me, and over 1 year plus I haven’t noticed any detrimental affects. Sure, I would love to have more live foods for them, but it works for me and if it’s not broken I don’t fix it. I’ve often thought about bringing my group of 6 to 10 or 12 or 15, but again, it’s not broken so I don’t fix it. If I had a 20 gallon open for them I would start with 6 and see how it goes and take it from there. Hope this helps. Cheers!

Hey @Karen B.! While I don’t have insight specifically to the Scarlet Badis/Rainbow question, I do have some thoughts regarding some of the other topics. -Scarlet Badis, as documented here on the forum by other keepers, basically must have live foods so definitely keep that in mind. They’re absolutely beautiful fish, but considering I don’t have a bunch of worm cultures going they’re out of my realm at the current point in time. -Cory’s have done fine for me on gravel substrate. I gave Cory’s in several of my tanks, and all of them are on gravel. I would however recommend a more smooth gravel for them. Cory has talked about finding them in the wild on basically every substrate imaginable -Pea Puffers, in my opinion, can be super fun. I have a group of 6 in a 29 with 2 (small) male Platy’s. The Platy’s were born in that tank and were the last of the fry that I couldn’t get out. I added the Pea’s thinking that the fry wouldn’t survive, but alas, here we are. I think it is to my advantage that they all essentially grew up together, but just remember that because “the internet said so” doesn’t always make it true. Best of luck on your new tank! The planning, sourcing, and watching your tank you’ve dreamed up come to fruition is arguably the most fun part.

While I’m no expert, I do hatch BBS about once per week and haven’t had any issues, but here’s what comes to mind: -Are you saying that after they’ve hatched, they’re dying less than 24 hours from hatching? Or, are they not hatching at all? -What size vessel are you hatching in? -What amount of salt are you using in that vessel? -Is there an air stone in that vessel? -Temp? -If they’re dying post hatching, are you keeping them in saltwater? -Have you tested your tap water? Both before when you weren’t having issues, and now again that you are? Again, I’m no expert, but these are the questions that come to mind with your initial post.

@Cory What would cause airlines to go stiff? Like mentioned above, it has happened with any airline I’ve tried. I always just chalked it up to “I guess that’s just what happens over time/I guess that’s what my water does to airlines” and I end up replacing it at some point. If it helps, I’m in CO. I wonder if @Irene has the same thing happen? 🤔

Every airline tubing I’ve worked with (ACO or otherwise) has gotten hard/stiff over time in my experience. We must have similar water parameters!

@mountaintoppufferkeeper and I frequent the same LFS, and that LFS takes 90% of what I breed. I’m thankful they were able to provide you with the stock necessary for your project! Super dope!

100% snail eggs. Either bladder snails or Ramshorn snails

So… Interesting development. The Kribensis continue to haunt me. I took the last 32 of the Kribs I had to the fish store exactly 2 weeks ago to the day. Fast forward to today, and I see some little movements in the old Krib tank. Turns out, I have ~10 Krib fry in this tank!! Apparently, the pair I kept in this tank spawned one last time before I sent them to the LFS. The Kribs had one final surprise in store. I swear these Kribs will be the death of me.

By all means, if you wanna play with your toys then play away! Just being so close to 0 already if feels like, to me, the saltwater ways are creeping back in. Who am I to judge your hobby, though? For me, I’d rather just work with what I have. In CO, we have soft water, and I simply don’t want to “make” water to try to keep things that wouldn’t naturally thrive in what I have. When I first got into the hobby, I was adamant I wanted a reef tank. Then, I realized I didn’t want to make and store water, spend a bunch on lights for corals, have to target feed corals, etc. With as much as I already work for my real job that pays for everything else, I want my hobby to be as easy as possible. Change water weekly, squeeze a filter every once in a while, add fertilizer, raise the fry from the fish that breed for me, but mostly sit back and enjoy.

To me, with your tap being near R/O already, it just seems like an extra wasted step. If your livestock are thriving why change it? I’m a big fan of “if it’s not broken don’t fix it”.

Another week, another journal update. Nothing of note this week, really. Just cruising right along. Did water changes and squeezed a couple filters. Reset some no clog air stones. Up and coming batch of Angels are doing well. Still need to work on making another Panda Angel pair o keep those flowing to the LFS. I guess that’s the project I need to put some more effort into. Enjoy a shot of my 2 favorite tanks in the house. Both 29’s with c02.

My 55 gallon on my rack is my Angelfish tank, but it also has a school of Cardinal Tetras and a group of Cory’s. My Walstad cube is my CPD tank but it has shrimp and snails. My Pygmy Cory tank has an African Dwarf Frog and a ton of snails. Lead actors need supporting actors, right? Every owner of a business has employees. There’s nothing wrong with a supporting cast, in my opinion.

Freshwater Great White Shark the size of a Corydora, and they need to be kept in groups of 6 or more