Ken Burke

To give you an idea just exactly difficult it is, here are a few picture of Ricky and Lucy. Lucy watching wrigglers Hank Here they are together, And here they are getting ready to spawn. Lucy is in the foreground and you can easily see her ovipositor. and a couple seconds later, you can see Ricky’s organ.

Adding to @tolstoy21and @lefty o, I find regular water changes allow me to feed a little more aggressively without worrying about getting my water too funky. Lots of fish need some conditioning together them in shape for a spawn.

As with most things in the hobby, patience is the key. Give them a piece of slate or something on one or both ends of the tank. They’ll sort it out with time.

As usual, fish folk nails it with a thoughtful response. I would add that I find it easiest to sell fish when their stock low, but before they order for the week. If you bring in 50 amazing guppies the day before they order, the know they don’t need as many (any) in the next shipment. I also ask before I just show up. I have the owners cell number and can just text them, but you could always call the store. I was talking to the owner at my lfs the other day. Turns out someone stopped into the store with a 5 gal bucket of livebearers same day as they received the shipment. This step them up to either buy fish they did not need (or have room for) or send her away unhappy. the tip on asking what they need is also sage. But don’t be too afraid to try something on the unique side. That’s how I got into the sailfin corydoras. The are unique, and a touch on the uncommon side. Since the big boxes don’t carry them, and my lfs can’t get them from their distributor, they can sell them for a few dollars more. That translates to them paying me more. Just don’t get crazy and try something super rare, and crazy expensive.

Here’s a taste of the angels.

@JenjaWhen trimming Anubias you want to cut the rhizome, leaving a leaves on both ends.

@K McZongoHow long has the tub been up and operating? A double handful of shrimp does not have any real impact on the nitrogen in the water. Elven adding a few rice fish shouldn’t make much of a difference. Give it a few days since you just added aquasoil. If you don’t have any ammonia or nitrite you should be ok to add a few fish It a Ty plant. They eventually put out roots, but really haven’t done much…

I don’t know anything about rice fish, but my tub has a few shrimp in with white cloud minnows and fancy goldfish. The goldfish snack on the shrimp when they can, but the clever ones make it. welcome to the forum BTW.

Excited for your new adventure! Can’t wait to see the pictures

I realize loss is just a part of life, but isn’t that a kick in a certain sensitive place. Glad I get to play a small part or the recovery.

If you cut the rhizome both ends will grow, so you effectively have 2 plants. I’ve cut thr one above a few times. As you can see, they can really fill out. Btw: you plants are awesome

I’m not sure, maybe @Fish Folk knows.

Got video? my guess is they are courting.

If your still interested in a trio, these are about a month or two from shipping size. I’ve never shipped fish before, so I’d rather send them to someone I “know” in case I screw it up.

I don’t stress over algae anywhere in the aquarium, except the front glass. Even that, not much. It offers so many benefits as mentioned above. Even hair, blackbeard and stag algae. In one of Cory’s videos, he talks about encouraging algae to grow, but in an area you choose.

Two thing this guy doesn’t do: jump outta perfectly good airplane, submerge a perfectly sound boat

Sounds like something outta @lefty o’s book!

Have you seen this? It’s a good place to start https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/how-to-pick-the-best-planted-aquarium-light Irene does a great job explaining things. they had a guide, but the link doesn’t look like it works.

Mine are doing so well. The egg picture is from this morning…..

Very normal! They look young to me. If the are adults looks for eggs on the glass corydoras glass surfing can just be juveniles playing, or males trying to get a female to spawn.

Sorry. I find preemptive flowers and chocolate a couple weeks in advance, followed by 2 week of groveling ….. ah who am I kidding. I live on the couch

My sailfins are spawning. Again. this time smack dab in the middle of the front glass. Sheesh

The babies are growing!

Recommend putting it through reverse respiration treatment before mixing with fish. It will hedge risk of disruptive hitchhikers.

Is there something wrong with that?