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I decided to start an aquarium journal for my 3 tanks. I will include information of all tanks and fish in the coming days.

Hi. Thank you very much for your feedback. Indeed, I have a 29 high aquarium that sits in the garage. But at the moment I am not really keen to reestablish and replace the small ones. So pretty much I will continue with the nanotanks. Therefore, I would also tend to the smaller corydoras species as you mentioned. However, the more I read and collect information, the more I am drifting away from corys and going to ricefish or minnows. I want also to look around in my local stores to see what is available in a couple of weeks time when the weather will be cooler.

Looks amazing!!

Thank you very much for your insightful and meaningful feedback. I want also in the future to keep here a joural with all the updates from the aquariums. Hopefully I will find time. The alternatives that you have mentioned are very interesting. I have kept in the past white clouds, mainly the normal form and they were ok. In case I find a long-fin variation of the "albino" or yellowish type, I will strongly consider those indeed. Otherwise, ricefish always sparked my interest, although they do not come that often to my neck of the woods, and they typically cost more than 5$ a piece. From my understanding, not all ricefish can live in aquariums without heaters. Is that correct? Thank you once again for your time and valuable feedback.

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??

Indeed, that was my impression too for many years. And I understand the reasons. Hopefully one day I can have a pond..

Thanks. I will check that when I have time.. 😀

Thank you very much for the super detailed response and the very usefull information. I do not realistically see myself with anything larger than a 125g for the next 5 years so I ll better think about goldfish instead..😏

Hello dear fish friends. Yesterday, I watched an old aquarium co-op video (RFT) from 3 tears ago on koi with Zak from koi.com. At some point of the video, the topic of keeping koi in aquariums was discussed. I am interested in knowing the current consensus and minimum water volume etc.

Hello again. I decided after all to put a heater in the aquarium and added a group of 10 flame tetra. I will keep the project corydoras for the future..

Thank you very much for your warm welcome everybody!! 😀

Thank you both for the suggestions. Indeed I can find both types at my local fish stores.

Hello everybody, After breeding and raising 3 gens of endlers in my 15g tank, I decided to move everything in my 33g tank and do sth different. I was thinking of having a group of 6-10 corys. The catch is that this aquarium is unheated and the room temp of the place where it is located ranges from 65 to 70 during winter (after March the minimum temp rises to 70). Is there any type of cory that would realistically cope with these temps at least until the end of winter?

Hi! My name is Alex and I am a fresh-water aquarium-addict since 2009. I currently own 7 tanks, 4*2,5gallon, 1*10gallon, 1*15gallon and 1*33gallon. Due to work load and familly duties I only run the two larger ones at the moment with livebearers, otos and ramshorn snails. I am really happy to join your community. I have been enjoying the co-op blogs and youtube videos for quite a while.