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After considerable thought, probably going to go route of a few more Sterbai Cory. Pretty sure not 200 though 🙂

I recently set up an Endlers tank (10G). Four females, two males and three mystery snails. A couple weeks ago a female gave birth to four babies then she died. Yesterday or day before an incredibly plump female birthed about two dozen babies. I found her dead this morning. Is this common?

I currently have a 29g with Central mudminnows. I have enjoyed Ohio native tanks very much in the past with darters, creek chubs, dace, madtoms, creek chubs, mudminnows, suckers... All locally caught. I once set up an informative tank at a library in the kids section. Fun thing about natives is if you are always discrete when feeding, you can train them not to identify you with food so they always act very naturally.

I think I'd like a high end version of what my cousin did at his house. He opened up the wall between a closet and his family room in the wall. From the family room the tank was in the wall seamless. From the closet he could feed, do maintenance, etc. It really looked awesome. I'd like the same thing but with no budget constraints, I'd hire the work out and use high end equipment instead of the usual scrounging through the stuff I have around. It would be fun to stock without cost and availability not being an issue.

Part of what I meant by clean-up crew are the inhabitants that tend to stick to the bottom. Since a tank has only so much fish capacity - nice to stock for activity at all tank levels especially since it is my community tank. I'm trying to respect acceptable group sizes without being too crowded in steerage. Being a breeder tank, it does have a decent footprint. About 650 sq. in

Doing some quick lookups. Panda Cories are 9 as well so that wouldn't be a wise choice, but Corydoras Paleatus being 1 or Aeneus Cory being a 7 should not be an issue.

I feed wafers every couple days besides the regular granule feedings for the rest of stock. Plus frozen bloodworms every Tuesday.

Bolivian Rams, Von Rio Tetras, Emperor Tetras, and Red Eye Tetras. My concern was not just the overall load on the aquarium, but if it would be two many in my clean up crew.

I have a 40G breeder community tank which is stocked with various species to 68% per AquaAdvisor. My current clean up crew consists of 5 Sterbais and 5 Ottos. I was interested in adding another small Cory species. How many more Cories would the tank reasonably support? thx.

I used to keep tropicals no apparent problems with the one or two tanks I had, but for many, many years I have had only a 29 gallon with Native Ohio fish. What scares me now, but didn't before is the Internet. I started the process of resetting up an old 40 gallon breeder tank. When I was checking out "fish stuff", I was overwhelmed by the tank cycling thing. In the past, I just set up the tank ran the filter without fish for a few days, put in a couple fish and gradually stocked tank usually one type of fish at a time. Never had a problem, yet in this new high tech world somehow I was convinced the world had changed and that tank set up had become a complicated new thing.

I started with 6 , then got 6 more but had a couple jumpers. I'd go with the previous 12-15 recommendation.

Big fan of Von Rio (wild type). Large school in my 40g. Always enjoyed Bronze, Peppered, and Panda Cories, but forum directed me to Sterbai. Yes my new favorite. Thumbs up for Bolivian Rams, Red Eye Tetras, and Emperor Tetras.

Permanent contraption installed! Never mentioned but tank is so old that it has an inoperative under gravel filter (old school). I put a small diameter rigid tube into the filter opening. I can add tubing to the rigid tube to siphon water as needed. I think this is a good plan to draw water from under substrate that might be more "stagnant". Thanks for the tip.

You may be right since I am using the API test kit. How I got in this situation, I minimize my interface with fish so they don't associate me with food, fear me or get accustomed to my presence so they act "more Natural". Kinda a unique and pleasant experience not to have fish beg for food when you observe them. Explains the lack of water changes.

I took the water to a local box store to check water. Clerk said all tests (including kH and gH which I cannot test at home) were fine but got no reading for pH. Quite honestly the clerk wasn't that interested in answering any details about test results. I did a pH at home and I got 6.0 I'm going to do some more small water changes over next few weeks. Figure it couldn't hurt. Some research on mudminnow says preferred 6.5 -7.5 pH, but specimens can uniquely survive in as low as 3.5-5 pH (Per NANFA). They can also live through a freeze and in oxygen starved water.