WicketTheRat

I have fish sitting in a tank next to me that were born on Bangkok, Thailand. I am in Las Vegas, Nevada. The weather, how they are packed and the reliability of your shipping method mean more than distance. If you trust the seller I would say go for it!

I have treated guppy fry with ich-x, basically as a byproduct of their existance in the tank that was being treated. They seemed to do totally fine, but I am not exactly an expert and it was only one time, so take my experience with a grain of salt.

Thank you for replying, it is good to know other people have picky fish. I also agree, they are mostly active at night for me too! So, this is really the problem, if I stop feeding bloodworms/hikari, after about a week I am seeing them get skinny again. I would say that I am basing the idea that they aren't eating other things when I am not looking on that. In QT it was a bare bottom tank, so the lack of poop was also an indicator. The one I lost was super emaciated when it died. I feed a few minutes after the lights turn off, as you said, to cut down on the other fish taking food, but guppies... they are a little relentless. No way that a piece of wafer would be left by morning with them. I really have to bury the food or the guppies are getting most of it, and as you said, I don't want to be feeding them bloodworms every night. I could go on like this forever, but once I start traveling for work again this will be a problem. Or maybe not, if they can go 2 weeks or so without food once they are full size. The tank is right next to my desk, I work from home, and usually in the late evening. So I sometimes watch for hours after I drop food in. They school around, and barble at everything (can barble be a verb too), its totally adorable. My house never truly gets dark, because the 3 adults who live here work totally opposite schedules, so it is possible that has something to do with it? As for offering the food, I would not feed a day (my thinking was so they were pretty hungry), then keep offering the new food until I thought they were starting to loose weight, usually 3 or 4 days, then chicken out and feed bloodworms. At that time though, they were sooo teeny. I would feel better about going longer now that they are bigger, maybe I should give it another go. It is just the guppies, I love them, but they are little piggies. I should add that when it comes to bloodworms, the cories are not afraid to push them away to get to worms. It is the motivation to get the food first that seems to be lacking.

I don't have shrimp, so I didn't even think of shrimp foods, thanks for the suggestion!

I just wanted to add that I was able to get levamisole at my local tractor supply, and you probably can get it at most livestock/feed/tack stores in the U.S. It was cheaper there than online with shipping, at least for me.

I got 5 panda cory several months ago, they were very small when I got them, less than a half inch, basically large fry size (which I relaize was a bad idea, but I wasn't having a lot of luck finding them). They would not eat anything in the first few days of quarantine. I de wormed them with both paracleanse and levamisole. The levamisole twice, and later, because of another issue with a differentl tank in my house. Before I got them to eat one died. Finally about a week in I tried frozen bloodworms and they went nuts for them. When I was less worried they were starving to death I tried to add other foods by skipping feeding them a day then offering it, but nothing took. Finally after a few weeks of fattening them up on bloodworms I moved them to my display tank wondering if they needed a change of scenery to eat other stuff and still they would only eat frozen bloodworms. I was thinking of trying to add some kind of vitamin to those, when I found hikari vibra bites. To my shock, they loved them too. I guess they only want to eat bloodworm shaped food? It is a pain, because the guppies they live with are very pushy about the bloodworms and vibra bites, so I usually reach in and bury it under a little bit of substrate (its a planted tank), and they dig it up and eat it. I do plan to get a few more when I can find them, and I am hoping the new batch might lead by example and they will eat more stuff? Is this normal for cory? I am very new to them! Here is a list of what they don't eat: xtreme sinking catfish wafers, omega one veggie rounds, xtreme krill flakes, hikari sinking carnivore pellets, sera nature tabs, frozen brine shrimp, live baby brine shrimp, frozen daphnia, freeze dried tubifex worms, new life spectrum tropical flakes, repashy soilent green. Some of these things I never expected them to eat, but I tried everything in my house. This is fine right now, but one day I will be traveling for work again, and my husband is terrified of fish touching him and won't stick his hand in my tanks. I would like to get them on a more "drop and go" food, at least some of the time.

Hi all! I was an avid fish keeper (along with my Dad) 15+ years ago while I was in high school. We kept oscars and from time to time other things, including a feeder goldfish who was the only survivor of a fire that gutted a restaurant. After being scooped out of soot filled water, Mr. Food went on to live for over 10 years in a large outdoor tank (we were in Florida). For the past 9 years I have kept a 125g (30g brackish water, the rest land) paludarium for land hermit crabs. That has only ever grown mangroves and kept fiddler crabs from time to time. Recently I decided to get back into fish and it has been a wild ride! I have a 10 gallon guppy tank, and a 29 gallon paludarium now that unlike my other is mostly water. I have about 20 gallons of water in the tank plus another part of the system that I guess can best be described as a sump, but is a 12 gallon tub I plan to grow some semi aquatic plants in. This is a total work in progress, but I did include pictures! Basically what happened was I planted it about 5 months ago, threw in a bunch of trumpet snails out if my brackish tank, then 4 months ago got 5 tiny panda cory. They are such picky eaters, one died before I got it to eat, I should make a whole post about that! I know I should not have bought basically large fry sized fish, but it was all I could find. While I was making progress there my guppies started dying. They were imported from Thailand by my LFS as a special order, but some extra were for sale that I bought. Thanks to aquarium co-op (and girl talks fish) videos I learned all about what to do and treated them for parasites. They kept wasting away until eventually levamisole was the magic cure. As soon as I dosed that the two remaining guppies pooped out a mass of worms and it has been smooth sailing ever sense. I treated the corys too, because they are in the same room. The guppies look a little beat up, but they are now eating, swimming, totally acting normal and spitting out more babies than I know what to do with. One single fry they dropped in the first month before they really deteriorated made it too. Now I have so many that I have moved a bunch to the 29 gallon to grow out. Once I was confident that everyone was treated I got two hillstream loaches and quarantined them for 30 days, which ended a week ago and they are now in the 29 gallon as well. My goal is to concentrate on getting the rest of the plants I want, getting the semi aquatic stuff going in the sump and playing around with some hanging plant stuff. I know most experienced aquascapers probably could do 100% better, but I am enjoying taking it one step at a time and playing around with it. Also in their first 24 hours these loaches ate 75% of the algae in the tank. I don't think I will be scraping this glass ever again. I included a picture of the 29 gallon and a shot of one of the surviving guppies! Note that the filter/all equipment is tucked away in the sump. Also any good tips on taking better pictures of fish? I have the newest galaxy note and it is good at taking pictures of everything else! -Annie