Jimmy

Big eyes, you think it’s gonna be a larger predator?

My father in law will be a benefactor lol

That’s a win! Lol. They are pretty undemanding. Slow growers though

I think so lol. It’s trained I think to grow so big that unfortunately I can’t keep it anymore lol. Excited to restart my 40b now though! Cool huh. I’m gonna list the whole lot on FB in the next day or two and hopefully I can find a home for it. Someone will need a tall tank to fully enjoy it.

Here’s an unintentional plug for the coop but I bought 1 portion of anubias nanji maybe 5+ years ago. It slowly has taken over my 40 gallon and has grown maybe 2 feet worth of rhizome. Over the years I’ve had to prune many leaves and lately it’s progressed. Between the pothos and anubias I can’t quite find the sweet spot for fertilizer. Here soon I’m doing a tear down of the tank and removing the anubias was the first step. I cleaned up the roots and cut off all the gravel. Next I portioned it off a bit and put it in 2, 20 longs. As you can see it doesn’t fit. I live in Eatonville wa and will need to find it all a new home. What a crazy removal.

I collected 140-150 corydoras rabauti eggs last week and they hatched this morning. Good number got fungus but I suspect I see 30~ babies that didn’t escape the tumbler. It’s been awhile since I had a spawn. How do you guys rear days old corydoras? I know after a few days I was able to get them to take freshly hatched bbs in the past. Do you try to get food in front of them immediately? Currently I have them in little deli dishes in my fish room to keep an eye on them.

They like to keep us on our toes, huh? Lol

I thought about throwing some mops down in the substrate but previously they always laid on the glass. It might be worth a shot.

I’ve heard so many great things about them but just coming out of the holiday season budget is a concern lol. I might try pumping them full of blood worms and doing the water change. When I first got the group they spawned all the time and I did nothing. They haven’t appeared to spawn at all in months from what I can tell. One time their tank hit 61 degrees and I got a whole bunch of eggs lol. I’ve thought about possibly doing musical tanks and pulling her out with 2 males to see if that encourages activity.

I have a group of paleatus in a 20 long by themselves. Initially when I got the group over a year ago, they breed constantly. Fast forward to now I see no breeding behavior. I think it’s 1 female to 7 males. They don’t seem to pester or harass her which is ideal. I’ve watched them after water changes and storms and see no activity. Any suggestions or feedback on how to get them back into breeding shape?

Maybe try lacroix

Corydoras paleatus will do great at that temp. I had mine breeding at 61~ degrees

We have tried a few times but the kids can’t leave it alone lol

Just do it lol. It’s very slow growth so just prepare to wait. They all look great!

It’s slow going. Just take the clipping and partially submerge it. We have had this start growing up the wall several times but inevitably one of my toddlers has their way with it. For the submerged growth it’s even slower but eventually leaves start growing in the water. can’t say I have. I’d like to let it grow around the room but the kids always knock it down lol. right?! It’s really slow but eventually it happens.

Thought this was worth posting. This is my 40 breeder that has been up for 2 years now with a healthy amount of pothos growing out the top and slowly in the aquarium. It bleeds into a monster 2 foot portion of anubias barteri perfectly. Bonus water bottle on top the aquarium.

I think this thread was primarily for documenting the build. I haven’t done an update in a long time. Anything specific you would like to see?

I became pretty inactive keeping it updated. I never saw this response so I’m replying 7 months later lol. I’m glad you found some inspiration! It’s a small space with limited power capacity and no running water. I thought it was crazy initially but people keep fish all around the world with even less resources and functionality so I thought why the heck not. Awesome! I’ve learned a ton in the course of the little over a year I have had it up and running. Sadly I think how my next fish room will be different from time to time. My biggest suggestion is to put most your stock into planning and use other fish keepers rooms as a starting point for inspiration.

The visual of that makes me want to vomit lol. I can’t handle it!

I got two SAI when I started my 40b 2 years ago when I panicked at stag horn. It was immediately decimated and eventually they both got big and started fighting. Flash forward to now I only have 1 SAI and not sure what happened to the second. Now the remaining is a fat sausage that sits on the bottom and occasionally darts from one side of the tank to the other lol. Biggest surprise in recent times was Normans Lampeyes. Very subtle color but with a flash light the males are a disco ball. They were initially shy but now beg more than my guppies and rice fish. When I was a new aquarist I adopted a tank that had a Chinese algae eater. Worst fish I’ve ever kept not sure how they made it into the hobby

No kidding. Out of my 28 aquariums only about 15 have fish. Plenty of playing room. Thinking my pursuit is going to be killifish heavy. Corydoras secondly.

All 28 of my aquariums have a polycarbonate lid I don’t mess with carpet surfing lol. I floated them then poured into pitcher. I then caught them by hand to put them into their tanks, the most jumping fish I’ve ever handled before. The male gardneri was colored up in the dark bag for no good reason lol.

Got three pairs of killifish today. Aphyosemion Christyi, aphyosemion cognatum and fundalopanchax gardneri!

Out of what I keep it would be killifish. Either daisy blue ricefish or Norman’s lamp eye. Really excited about killifish right now

I haven’t, yet lol