You should get a QT. A ten gallon will suffice for a trio of C. paleatus. If you dont have any of the sorts, would you happen to have a spare rubbermaid you could use as a makeshift QT?

Perhaps you should try feeding protein-filled foods, like bloodworms or mysis shrimps. Also, you should quarantine the sick fish.

I wouldn't feel comfortable keeping ten guppies in a 15.

I keep elegans with pygmeaus, they both do fine.

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How can it be a longfin if the tail/pectoral isnt long?

I had thought my basement was in the low 60's, so it wasn't intentional.

Thanks! I knew that C. paleatus was cold-hardy, but I just wanted to make sure.

I decided to keep three C. paleatus in an umheated tank. This morning (about 7:00 AM) I checked the temperature of the tank, and it was about 57-58 deg. Is this too cold for the fish?

Thanks!

They look really different from each other. I know that this fish is very variable, but still...

Fish A


Fish B

Thanks!

Ah, I get it now. But what would you get if you get one albino gene and one calico gene?

Thanks for the explanation, but I'm confused on why you can get Albinos from Calicos? Are the two color morphs related?

Well, technically "Calico" is a heredetary genetic defect, so it can happen to nearly all fishes (Koi carp and Goldfish often have spots/blotches caused by a similar genetic defect). But the commonly available, the only one KNOWN to us, calico form is Ancistrus cf_cirrhosus . -- Mats What Kind of ...

I'm just wondering, but what species of BN are Calicos? I've heard of them being a color morph of the common BN. If so, how exactly do the genetics work out?

Fish one though is pretty skinny. (he's getting fatter though)

I'm just wondering, but how do you tell?

Fish 1 http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh163/Ketsuron/Fishes001.jpg http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh163/Ketsuron/Fishes002.jpg http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh163/Ketsuron/Fishes003.jpg Fish 2 http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh163/Ketsuron/Fishes004.jpg http://i256.photobucket.com ...

Any Pics?

If it were me, I would keep 30-36 total sterbai in that tank and sell the others. Sterbai are a fish that don't go for cheap.

I got these at an auction, they are wild-caught fish. I would just like to make sure, since there are so many similar looking species.

EDIT: I know there are some Axlerodi with them too.

Thanks!

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Is Green-Gold Corydoras melanotaenia?

would these be right?

Thanks!

It was sold to me as elegans, but it doesnt look like Elegans (Or at least the ones I have)

corywink wrote:if you didn't mix up your nitrate and nitrite readings, then you should be concerned. A cycled tank should have zero nitrite readings and some nitrate reading. The nitrogen cycle is ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate

Sorry! I got them mixed up.