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I’ve had my CAE in the aquarium for a few years now and it’s stayed around the 5-6 inch mark. It seems to keep to itself mostly but I did notice some aggression when I had a red garra in there. I’ve noticed it doesn’t do much as far as getting rid of algae though. Will Siamese algae eater take care of the BBA?

I’ve actually already got a Chinese algae eater in there and I also just got two bristle nose plecos to try to help. Would the Siamese algae eaters get along with them?

I have an established tank, 180 with some plants in it. The only plants I’ve been able to get to survive in my aquariums are anubius, everything else has died. While living somewhere with a water softener I was able to get jungle Val to thrive but each time I put some in this tank with harder water it slowly gets smaller until it’s completely gone. The black beard algae has been taking over my anubius plants along with some moss in this aquarium. I don’t know what to do to fix this. Someone please help. I really want a beautiful planted tank. I’ve been dosing with the recommended amount of fertilizer as well. I have uploaded pics of now and the last photo is from when we had a water softener. Any advice is greatly appreciated! one more thing to add, the sand in the new tank is different. I believe it may be a crushed coral of some type and in my previous tank I used pool filter sand. I was going to try replacing my sand with play sand to see if that might help.

Thanks!! I was thinking a lot of them looked fertile too, but wanted to verify. I softened the water a little and removed components making the water more hard. I’m trying a separate container with meth blue and an air stone for this round.

I’ve had no luck with the last batch. I tried sticking a lot of eggs to the wall of the breeder box, doing a methylene blue dip, and spreading all the eggs further apart and removing ones that got fungus immediately. None of them survived that round. They spawned again today. Can anyone tell if the majority of these are fertile or not??

Could this fertilizer have anything to with why the eggs aren’t surviving? Since the eggs are in a breeding box using the same water as the tank, some of this is getting into their breeder box.

That makes a lot of sense! I had actually been wondering if a lot of them were fertile because when I was pulling them I noticed a lot seemed very white rather than transparent. I thought maybe it was because they were newer parents, not realizing there needed to be more males. I know they like to school but before I knew enough about cories I had gotten these two and several peppered ones and the peppered ones all died off. I’ll try getting some more sterbais then! Thank you! That’s super helpful! I was leery about using methylene blue anyways, so I would prefer to use the almond leaves or a more natural way like you mentioned.

We don’t have any water softener. I had a rock in there that could have been adding additional hardness so I removed the rock and added more almond leaves alongside a water change. here’s a photo of a test strip from water straight from the tap.

The photos you see are of them in the 180. The setup I have is different in the 20 gallon now where they have a corner of the tank they should feel more comfortable in. I’ll try some adjustments though and see if that works! Thank you for the help and the video!

Okay! ill change out the rock and raise the temp and see if that sparks anything! Thanks!!

Okay I’ll try a more flat one. They’re kept at about 78 right now.

I haven’t but I put a flat black rock in there with fake plants and a cave to give them a corner of the tank to guard

Sorry, I meant to put that in as well. Here it is

That’s what I was thinking! Any ways I could trigger these guys to spawn? They seemed like they had been wanting to for a few weeks now.

These two had been following each other around my 180 and one of them cleaning off a rock daily. It seemed like mating behavior to me so I moved them into a 20 gallon with two other Bolivian rams to see if they would lay, but nothing has come of it yet. Do they look to both be males or are they mates?