TheSwissAquarist
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Todays been an eventful day. Starting off with cutting my finger on some skis and having to get a jab because they were all rusty making me miss double French 🫠. I’m not all too sad about missing out on the wonders of Renaissance littérature.
After getting home from school 🏫, I found about 50 Cory eggs stuck to the side of their breeding tote! I’m thinking that a combo of a faulty air pump and 20 Celsius temps are the trick. Basically imitating natural rain.
Final bit of good news, my glowlight fry have finally started to take off! One-handed Sera micron is on the agenda tomorrow morning!
Stay fishy friends!
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On 11/9/2023 at 3:58 PM, GoofyGarra said:
in the ACO member talk on cories the speaker mentioned using Alder Cones to prevent egg fungus, the i expect the alder cone tannins would be beneficial to a naturally blackwater fish like glowlight tetras, and would serve the same anti-fungal effect.
I’d already put an IAL in after the parents spawned for that purpose… they were probably just plain old infertile! Nice new profile pic btw. 😄
Take off:
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On 11/1/2023 at 2:05 AM, TeeJay said:
club friend is bringing me more jaca moss to the auction so I can get some more moss rocks made for them to have lots over spots to scatter there eggs in. I feel like the danios may be the first ones I actually take more of an on hands approach to breeding. The same club friend bringing the moss is who I got the danios from. So if I have time to pick his brain on breeding them at the auction I will
KeepingFishSimples using the mop-in-container method and is getting great results with those guys.
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On 11/8/2023 at 4:58 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:
It took 17 months, but I've finally passed all of my CPA exams. My husband asked how I'd like to celebrate. I reply nonchalantly, "Eh.. probably start setting up a 55 gallon tank" (not rly making eye contact with him...lol..."testing the waters", if you will). He smiled & laughed so I'm taking that as a green light. 💚
Congrats!!! 🍾
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On 11/9/2023 at 2:07 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:
The wild types do have a certain beauty to them.😅
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Someone’s waving from the glass:
I noticed a big fuzzball of fungused eggs in a corner of the tank. Has anyone got experience with preventing fungus in tetra eggs?
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Glad to hear you’re doing well! You could probably set up a tank in your new restaurant…😅 just a thought.
Wild caught fish definitely look better and “appreciate “ tank environments a bit more IMO. -
The ACO shirt makes me think of how cool a tank with a Fly river turtle, a mbu puffer, corydoras and swordtails would look. Not sure how it would work out, but hey… 🤔
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Someone was waving at me from the fry tank this morning:
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That little face . 😂
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Poor Polos had an op on his leg. No walks for 14 weeks. For anyone who’s ever wondered if a Dalmatian also has spotty skin:
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Did you have much success with the chilis?
On 11/8/2023 at 2:16 PM, tolstoy21 said:I made one of these setups once for chili rasboras. However, I did not keep it running long (can't remember the reason why).
If I remember correctly, this was the basic gist of the setup. The uptake was kind in the middle of two partitions, with the floor/bottom of that being sponge.
I believe both the light and the direction of the flow is meant to get the tiny fry to the other side. Encapsulating the uptake in it's own chamber keeps the fry from getting sucked up.
I got this concept from the 'Barb Whisperer' video that is linked earlier in this thread (saw that a while back). Can't attest that this works, but the fella in the video seemed to have good results.
I found that concept really interesting. Do you think it would be possible to build without glass & stuff?
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On 11/7/2023 at 5:09 PM, Elodie Rose said:
There are little fry in the Glitter Limia tank!!!! Yay!
Congrats! They’re such a cool fish.
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On 11/7/2023 at 5:21 PM, Guppysnail said:
I seriously want answers of why I can never find awesome cool wood like these
It could be because you also find it hard to pay upwards of 40 bucks for a stick?
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Those colors are really great. I’m thinking that the backwater enhances them??
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3 day old glowlight tetra fry. Completely helpless and somewhat small. 😅
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What are you planning to breed? I can see that becoming a good Rainbowfish or cichlid rack…
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3 day old tetra fry seem to be doing ok (they don’t do much!).
Zebra danio fry have just celebrated their 6 week birthday. Somehow they look more like black neons than anything else. 😅-
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The fry seem to be around a day off being free swimming. Has anyone got some good tetra fry foods to recommend?
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That could be a cyst or a tumor. If you medicate it with salt (1 tsp/5 gal) it might get rid of it if it’s a cyst.
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On 11/7/2023 at 3:22 PM, JoeQ said:
So in the aquarium setting the biggest issue with not getting any babies is not removing the eggs fast enough (or in my case at all)
You definitely want to remove the eggs, especially if there’s any tank mates. KeepingFishSimple just released a vid on Cory breeding:
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My bad! 🤦♂️
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On 11/7/2023 at 2:31 PM, JoeQ said:
How do you encourage them to spawn?
Leaving them in a small tote for a couple of days at room temp (21 ish Celsius) as a pair they usually spawn pretty quickly. The tricks getting the eggs out fast enough.
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Yikes!
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Discussion of LARGE tanks: It's happening! 196 gallon custom glass tank....
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I’ve got a nice looking branch on my apple tree if you’re interested 😂…
You can always hose down pieces of wood to get the worst debris out and then gravel vac the rest. (If you can reach in as big a tank as that!)