Siastia

With my fingers. Previously I had tried to scrap them off with a credit card, but it definitely smooshed most of them. I just kinda roll the eggs off of whatever she's stuck them on with my finger. Usually they will stick to your skin so you can transfer them. You've got to be delicate, but they are surprisingly sturdy eggs. I hardly have any squishies anymore.

The corydoras decided to spawn this morning. So I have been sitting in front of the tank peeling eggs off the glass for the last few hours. I think I am up to 30, just from the one female that is spawning atm. Im putting them in a small breeder box that's hanging inside the tank atm. There's an airline tube putting out just a bit of air to keep the water moving. I will probably end up setting it up hanging on the outside of the tank like it's meant to be, with water circulating from the main 20g into the box back into the main 20g. Helps maintain a cleaner environment I find. I still do a 70ish% water change on the box everyday, but just with the 20g water. I tend to overfeed so I take extra caution. The babies don't produce a lot of waste but this way the food leftovers don't sit at the bottom of the box and rot.

That plant is so cool! Would definitely be able to catch some nice bugs out in a summer tub. I imagine it might catch some endler babies, but I dunno if it would be able to keep a hold of the lil squigglers.

Hello, I'm a little late here, but from what I can tell you have a healthy population of amphipods/copepods! No need for worry imo. What kind of fish do you have? Small fish, fry especially, will eat these little guys up like candy usually. I don't believe you have anything to be worried about necessarily. Like any living thing in the aquarium eco-system, they are going to thrive depending on the conditions. They feed on your tank's deritus/mulm like snails and other larger organisms do. I have 5 tanks set up at the moment, and the only one with pods in it is very low stocked with a low-energy betta and some african dwarf frogs. The other tanks are all full of guppies, endlers, tetras etc that eat all the pods. I actually got excited when I found them and was wondering how I could culture these little guys in their own tank so I can feed them to smaller fry, like tadpoles or cory babies. If they are causing you a bit of stress or viewing displeasure, you can do 10-30% water changes and gravel vacuum most of your mulm up. Just keep in mind that mulm does play a beneficial role in your nitrogen cycle, so I would not vacuum it all out all at once. If you're REALLY hating whats going on, you can turkey-baster the lil guys outta there. Feed a little less and clean a little more and I would expect your pod levels to go down.

African Dwarf Frogs are great to keep. They are surprisingly personable. I have raised only two from spawn to adulthood, but I have kept about 8-10 in my life. I have kept them with snails, guppies, endlers, ember tetras, porkchop rasboras and bettas. Never had an issue with aggression from the frog side of things or the fish side. Even with the bettas I've kept them with I have had no problems. Up to the betta's personality to an extent I would imagine. I keep mine in a 10 gallon standard, at 76-78 degrees. I have harder water, my ph sits around 6.8ish. I use a little salt in the tank, about 1tbsp per 5 gallons in this tank. Frogs are supposedly sensitive to salt, so I don't really add more, but haven't seen any cons. I feed mine live black worms (their favorite, in a shortage right now), frozen blood worms, live or frozen baby brine shrimp. and then whatever my fish don't get to, so Hikari fancy guppy pellets, Repashy community cubes and Hikari algae wafers. You can also feed them finely shredded chicken breast, but I have only done so a few times when I have been out of other stuff. You need to make sure it is very fine threads of chicken breast. They are particularly - c h i l l - dudes and don't do much during the day. Mine live in a low-flow tank, with just a sponge filter. They will enjoy shoving themselves under things in their tank, like leaf-litter, rocks, adornments, etc. I always make sure they have a couple cave places to retreat to. Mine have bamboo tubes from my backyard. They will also sit at the surface as they are air-breathers. So a plant/plants that reach the surface and allow a nice basking spot [in water] where they can sit and poke their little noggins out of the water. I use anacharis myself, but that may be illegal depending on where you are. Amazon swords work well, Rotala, anything that grows to the surface. I haven't tried lilies but I am sure they would love those too. They are extremely light so they don't need a very sturdy plant. They also seem to enjoy crypts because of the way they spread and fan out, it allows them to hide out under the leaves. Bright light is okay, but they are going to be happier with a few shady spots to retreat to. In my experience, they are the most active at night. This is when the males will sing for females, and they will try to engage in amplexus. That is about the height of the "aggression" that they will display. Really they are just aggressively hugging. The males will let other males know if they've grabbed the wrong frog and will release each other. Males will keep a hold of the females if the females are of breeding capability and they will continue with amplexus if conditions are right. They are great pets to keep. Just make sure they have access to air, so I wouldn't do anything deeper than a 10 gallon. I have kept them in a 20 gallon long with no trouble. They enjoy company of their own kind and have lots of cute and funny interactions with each other all the time. First two pics are Baby Frog (M) (2nd gen home-spawned) This is Shoestrap (M) This is Shiny Shoulder (M) This is Turd (M). He is the oldest, the lumpiest and the slowest ❤️

Update! The albino Corydora fry are about 6 weeks old. I moved them into the 20 gallon community when they turned a month old. I have been able to count 8 out and about at any given time. I released 11 in there a few weeks ago, so perhaps I will keep them separated in a smaller tank until they are a little older next time. Live and learn I suppose. I moved some fish around to different tanks recently. The ember tetras (7), porkchop rasboras (4) and my koi betta Calphy moved from the ADfrog (4) 10 gallon and are now in the 20g long with male endlers and the corydoras. They all seem to be doing well and enjoying the space and extra company. Calphy tried eating a baby corydora but quickly found out that it was not a very viable food source. My other betta Brickee moved from the high-paced endler 10g and into the frog 10g. He has a male+3female group of black and yellow tuxedo/cobra guppies, so a lot less general commotion for the time being. He is a lower energy guy with long fins who just likes to hang out in his plants and occasionally ham for the camera. He had gotten pretty skinny, which was another reason for moving him from the more populated guppy tank. He's been eating really well lately and has started to bulk up a little bit. He also has what I believe to be some kind of small tumor or a persistent blister of some sort below his right eye that will fill up sometimes. Usually some tlc and kanaplex if needed gets it to go back down. Keeping an eye (ha) on it and making sure it doesn't get infected. The group of male+female blue bar endlers are doing their job and producing lots of fry. Had some fin issues on big Blue Mama fish but she seems to be recovering and re-growing really well. Been calling her Nubbins for now. Her first batch are just shy of being 4 weeks old and she should be dropping again in the first week of February. She is a full grown female guppy, with a lyre-esque looking tail on her, blue and yellow colored. She's really a big shy sweetie. Her last drop was ~20 I think. Many of the other females in the tank are just now starting to hit the age where they will drop 2-4 ish each. I love watching them grow. Personally the 1-2 mos of age is when they are super cute sized. I managed to spot Blue Mama dropping her last batch so I grabbed a couple of pictures. The Mutt Guppy Jungle, in the 20g Long B tank is finally starting to hold its own. I had some cycling issues for some reason and it tended to spike a bit in the ammonia. The gupps in here are holdovers for my 50 gallon summer tub. I don't have a great over-wintering setup made for them yet, so they got pulled inside for the season ( I live in a 9a/b region). There are quite a few in here and I expect the population to explode once they get back outside. There are black/yellows, blue/orange, guppy-endler mixes, and other really cool patterns. In 2020, the blue/orange really took hold, in 2021, the black/yellows were more prominent. But as of the end of 22 into 23, what I have been seeing the most of is blue bar culls, as in they have the blue bar body pattern, but their tails patterns are full tail and are not consistent in the slightest. They are really pretty nonetheless and seem to be thriving now. Excited to see what colors run rampant this summer. Only issues the tank has been giving me is some stomach parasite issues, for which I usually add salt and PraziPro and that seems to take care of it when it does arise. After the nitrate tap water poisoning the fish went through at the end of summer '22, I am grateful to have who I have left. I lost A LOT of guppies that were both breeding stock and ready-to-sell's. So here's hoping to a better 2023. This year I would like to continue to get better at breeding the corydoras, raise some beautiful and healthy guppies and hopefully start breeding ADF's again.

Hello! Thank you! I have bred the frogs before, and have raised a few tadpoles (babyfrog was a home-grow). I definitely need to do more research on the project though. I am hopefully going to set something up this year to breed the frogs, but I have no females at the moment. From my (in)experience, the females need to be separated after spawning. I have had a few losses, and I believe they just became exhausted, as they have to spawn and also drag the male around during amplexus. So what I would like to do is set up a spawning tank, where there will only be one pair up until they spawn, in which I will remove them. I would also have to make Male/Female frog community tanks to keep them separated. I would love to breed Calphy will a pretty galaxy koi female, but unfortunately I have had the worst of luck with female betta health lately and currently am not keeping any.

Hi! My name is Briana, but I go by Sia or Siastia often. I have been keeping fish and aquatic frogs off and on my whole life, and have always been interested and fascinated by aquatic life. I started really getting into fish keeping in the beginning of 2020 and can't stop [won't stop]. I have 5 tanks set up at the moment. 20g Long A - Male endlers/guppy hybrids, Albino Corydoras [Corydoras aeneus], Pandas [Corydoras panda] 20g Long B - Mixed Endler/Guppy. Winter hold-over for outdoor summer pond. A large mix of different types/strains 10g A - Dumbo Halfmoon Betta M (Brickee) and male homegrown Blue Bar Endlers/female guppy/endlers 10g B - Blue Galaxy Koi Plakat Betta M (Calpheon), African Dwarf Frogs, Harlequin Rasboras [Trigonostigma heteromorpha], Ember Tetras [Hyphessobrycon amandae] 3g - Temporary breeding/pairing tank, 3 pairs black/yellow leopard Guppies growing out. I keep lots of plants and do regular water changes. Here is my Youtube. I make a habit of closely watching my water parameters because I have heavily stocked tanks. My recent struggles have been battling a nitrate poisoning from my tap water which caused me to lose quite a few of my guppy/endlers, and ensuing poor water quality complications with illnesses such as Columnaris. My fishroom seems to be on the mend however! Currently I am breeding the albino corydoras as my first foray into Cory breeding. I hope to keep adding pictures and information as I progress. I have been following the guidance that I have found on this forum and have had decent luck with my endeavors (so far!). I hope in early 2023 to start breeding African Dwarf Frogs again, as I have had a bit of success without a lot of effort. I am always open to suggestions, corrections and supportive criticism. I hope to become a serial hobbyist! I don't have anyone in my personal life who nerds out about fish as much as I do ❤️

Hello! I live in Northern California. I have been trying out local (not exactly native) botanicals that I can find. I've done acorn tops, oak leave, magnolia leaves and bamboo. I am fortunate/unfortunate that I have the bamboo in the backyard, the leaves are very nice for a tannin tank and they aren't really fibrous, so they don't take forever to breakdown. The dried bamboo stems are good tubes/hide holes for smaller fish or frogs.