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  1. I think you have some great options. agree with panda corys, they will often colony breed, are easy tankmates and have instant color and movement impact. Less than 10 more than 5 would work. palleatus corys, sometimes called the salt and pepper they can hand a wide range of parameters and come in short and longfin. Group of 5-7. Bronze corys Coryadoras aeneus, or their albino brethren, great hardy full bodied Cory once again easy to colony spawn. I think a group of 5-7 could work in a 20. Any of the Pygmy corys will work- Pygmy, hastatus and habrosus- remember that they often will swim mid water as well as school with other species which is a lovely trait. I don’t know where the mixed reviews are coming for these are exceptional fishes. So much in a small package. 10-15, 20 depending on the stocking already in there. Venezuleanus, gold/green/orange lazer these are all thought to be related species to Bronze corys or just in the same group or lineage if you look at the Cory charts and I have not found them to be difficult to keep than bronze corys just note the price difference although gold laser pricing has seemed to come down recently. Same stocking applies to Bronze. Best of luck on your Cory journey. Happy to answer your questions here or in the Panda Cory page we keep!
  2. Oh my goodness @Cinnebunsthey're gorgeous!!! I bought some habrosus today and I’ll post videos tonight!!
  3. Generosity- it’s an attribute I’ve always admired and tried to emulate. As an aquarist I’ve seen a lot of generosity from my fellow fish keepers and I’ve tried to put that back out into the universe. I put out on the GSAS email that I was starting to plan an Axolotl tank for my youngest son and did anyone have a chiller I could buy as a new one was financially daunting. I got a quick reply from a member and made arrangements to take a trip out to Bainbridge Island where they lived. For our family this involves a little bit - those who have children under 10 know what a roadtrip entails and in our case it was a ferry ride and then a drive. Exciting for sure but for the boys being in a car for about 2+ hours would be a challenge. We made sure they were fed and watered and pottied and off we went. We arrived and I suddenly fell into an easy banter with this person and she revealed that it was @eatyourpeaswhom I’d known on this forum since its inception. How cool?! 😎 She was as kind and generous in person as she’s always been on the forum. We saw her tanks, Ursula Ferkin and all her clones, her Pea Puffer, her home and her grounds which are beautiful. Her generosity extended beyond this to the chiller - she was giving it to the boys and I. Amazing!! Generous beyond my expectations. She indicated that she’s slowly getting out of the hobby and as her animals pass and tanks change she’s shutting them down slowly and even offered me a tank - my wife prevented that from occurring! Anyway I’m so so grateful. I didn’t take pictures as she’s a private person but I just so appreciate her both for the years I’ve known her here and for what she did for my boys and I. I am doing some work around my tanks today and will try to take pics and videos later to post but I just had to share this beautiful moment for which I’m grateful. Have fun everyone!
  4. Did some feeding tonight- one of the advantages of having 2 boys under 9 are the leftover veggies that the shrimps and plecos get. Tonight it was cucumber and the plecos had a ball. My pride and joy is this female longfin standard L144 ancistrus - gorgeous! Elvira is her name! Nextdoor is my 20 high with Santa guppies, 6 L519 juvies, and shrimp - Malawa, Aura blues and Bloody Mary’s. Guppies are such opportunistic creatures as suddenly a treat for the plecos and shrimp becomes there’s! The 20 long up above has my cherry shrimp and they’re coming along nicely as well. I hope everyone is well and having fun. I have some ponds that I’m getting back into shape and a new fish coming tomorrow so exciting times in the BBG fish house! Updates to come and hopefully sooner than later!
  5. I’ve got a 150 g Rubbermaid tub stocked with a single Shubunkin Goldfish the kids all Sbow White. She’s a survivor we had a freeze of over 7 days and she came out growing an inch. I’m going to remove some leaf litter and prep the plants in there this weekend but I’m wondering about stocking. I have some Variatus Platys and I’ve thought about some White Clouds. I could put 1-2 other Shubunkins but I need something to eat the mosquito larvae and well goldfish are too lazy for that.
  6. Awww @CinnebunsI am proud. Armored catfish are a real passion for me. Presently I have 3 types - Venezuelans, Pygmy’s (albino and regular) and Gold Lasers. I’ve been on the verge of getting pandas again recently but I’m trying to make sure I don’t over extend myself. As my journal and posts indicates over and over I have a collectoritis problem and well I don’t know what’s good for me. Anyways yes I love when people post here. It really warms my heart. ❤️ and ☮️ to all my fellow Cory keepers!
  7. Nothing better than new baby panda corys. I may just have to start back up again!
  8. I’d say that from an online retailer I’d expect these kinds of loses. Locally I’d be shocked. In general the younger the shrimp the better they adapt. Sometimes they sell you old shrimp and they can’t cope with another set of parameters. Several months of seasoning the tank could mean 1-2months could be 4 months. I would say that 3 months is minimum to build up enough biofilms and algae’s. Food should be left less than 12 hours. Don’t let rotting food be the end of your colony. In general, underfed is better than over. Gel foods like Repashy work well. Do your know your tds, gH and kH? As you Move forward that could be helpful as you move through your shrimp keeping and try to refine things. I hope this time is the one for you. My own journey was after a long break from the hobby my wife purchased me a Fluval Flex 15 and I just couldn’t keep the cherry neos alive. Turned out I had babies in the filtration section but I did lose quite a few adults as the tank seasoned. At 6-12 months it finally became mature enough for a good colony of shrimp. Honestly my most successful setups have been more leave it and forget it setups - 20 g tub with moss, duckweed and guppy grass did better than my 20 g long that was “ideal.” Or the tank is so big it just can’t fail - my 60 g Orange Sakura tank is like that with 100s of neos. Good Luck and let us know how we can help.
  9. Shrimp and Fluval Flex’s are interesting- always found the shrimplets in the filtration chamber. I think it could work. Keep a test kit or strips handy and watch your parameters after the fish are added.
  10. I make batches of it in squares and I also feed it in the powder form. Then there’s small particles all over for them to eat.
  11. Lots of options. Sponge filter would work. A hang on back with a prefilter sponge on the intake could work - Aquaclear makes a nice one, I have this one on some 10 g cube tanks and they work well with easy flow for the fish you’re talking about An undergravel filter would work well. If you’re just going to use low level stocking you could heavily plant it and go no filter or Walstad. I think the questions more about how you want to run and maintain the tank. How quickly do you want to set it up and have it running? The beauty of being an aquarist is that you can take multiple approaches and get different but equally interesting results.
  12. Yep and @Patrick_G has supplied us both with fish!! He almost got me to take some of his Nothos!
  13. I agree with @Tony sthat when their water or tankmates are not to their liking they’ll stop breeding. In general, they like harder water. Ideally pH is greater than 7. Many times initially the pH will be up at setup and then as time goes on and the tank matures the pH and hardness sometimes can fall. So checking your parameters is a good place to start. I love crushed coral. Next I’d look at the dwarf frogs - African Dwarf Frogs are carnivores. They are super derpy but are ambush predators. Platy fry often hug the substrate after birth and will be a little lethargic initially. They are an easy target for the frogs. I’d bet that your Platys are having fry but you’re not seeing them.
  14. The Bronze Cory or Coryadoras aeneus like their water a bit cooler low 70s. In general, Cory’s like water on the softer side but these fish have been in the aquarium trade for so long like can accept a wide range of parameters. Feeding should consist of mostly meaty foods - worms, insect based foods with black soldier larvae and brine shrimp or other small crustaceans like daphnia, cyclops. I often will take the freeze dried tubifex and bury it in the sand for them to find. It’s a hoot to watch them! Breeding - Optimally you have a 2:1 ratio of males to females. Age wise probably 9-12 months old. Then when you’ve got some females who are looking rather broad through the girdle I feed them heavy on blood worms, tubifex and brine shrimp for 3 days. If I can time it I’ll do this when I know a weather front is coming. Then I’ll do a large volume water change with cooler water 5-10 degrees usually and within hours to days I’ll see eggs on the glass, moss and plants. They can be colony bred but if you want a higher yield pull the eggs and watch @Dean’s Fishroomvideos on raising Cory fry!
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