Hi everyone,
coming back to my post from 2021. After all this time I am still with my Endlers, now approx. in the 5th generation.
In the meantime, moved houses, torn down past aquariums and set up other ones.
I am running at the moment 2 nanotanks. One since Dec 2021 (12gal approx.), the second since May 2022 (15gal give or take).
The only fish I am rocking at the moment are endlers and one hillstream loach (the only one left from an initial trio back in 2020).
I have come to a point where I kinda lost interest in continuously raising new endler generations and start to be a bit on the heavy stock side.
So since 2 weeks, I have started to separate males and females between the two tanks in order to slow down and eventually stop new fish from been born. I hope to have that done by autumn at some point. I do not know exactly how long do the females store sperm.
After that I am probably going to keep around 10 males in the 12gal tank, and give all other males and females away. Maybe I could keep the healthiest looking females in the 15gal tank as well in case I want to restart the thing in a year or so.
In the meanwhile, I was thinking again to replace the fish in the 15g tank with corys. And the paleatus variety comes back in mind.
I am getting conflicting information though, on the temperature range from different websites and online sellers at my country.
Having lived in this house during winter, spring and summer, I have seen temperatures from as low as 62F during winter and as high as 80F during summer. 68F would be the most seen temp, especially during the spring time.
The aquarium has a lid and no heater is/will be used. I am running a small inner filter from dennerle (the one advertised also for shrimps and bettas) and a sponge filter.
Are cory paleatus still a viable option??