a friend of mine has the corey in the picture in the link below, and neither of us is sure what kind he is. ideas? suggestions?

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Thanks.
-Liz

as i was watching my cories this morning swimming around the bottom of the tank at feeding time i noticed that they seem to swim around looking for food pretty randomly. sometimes one would stop and swim away just centimeters from a shrimp pellet. i've noticed the same behavior with my fry. can ...

we do not all get to see the same fish. physical locations are a big part of this, as are the circles in which one travels. most of the cories on this site i will never get the chance to see because A) even the best fish stores in my area don't have much of a catfish selection. if i go to a fish ...

Generally, the females are noticably plumper than the males. check out this thread on sexing cories. the drawing is really helpful. http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=96&highlight=sexing Ian has a pretty good artical on sexing cories on his website http://www.corydoras.pwp.blueyonder ...

hey there. i've got a bunch of cory fry hatched on february 27th. (they are almost 3 moths old) most of them are showing coloring like their parents. some, however, are still pretty small and look a lot like fry. i would like to change the substrate in the tank (large gravel) to something more ...

other than checking water parameters (they will be paler if ammonia or nitrite are too high), you could look for other stressors (like other fish in the tank that pick on them) and try changing to a darker substrate. when my C. aeneus went from tan gravel to flourite (reddish brown with some black ...

i think you're supposed to use enough methelyn blue to just tint the water blue. i'd want someone with more experience to back me up though, as i have never done this myself.

-Liz

that's why the cories are moving. i'm afraid something like that will happen, and now that i know about your experience, i'm even more anxious to get the cories out. although there's no way a cory could fit in the goldfish's mouth, i don't want the goldfish to even be tempted. the goldfish mouths ...

here, most "gravel cleaners" from your website are either called gravel vacs, siphons, or pythons. maybe you just use different terms for the same things or group them differently.

-Liz

feeding peas is common when goldfish gulp too much air and float on the surface constantly or when they're constipated. the peas clean out the digestive tract rather speedily. the long-term solution is usually to stop feeding floating foods, and/or stop feeding so much or feed more greens. swim ...

depends on the type of catfish you have. some like cooler temperatures than others. take a look in the cat-e-log to find the ideal temperature for your catfish. Goldfish are easier to keep in their own tank, but they're not as incompatible temperature-wise as most might think. most fancy goldfish ...

if you're talking about fish getting stuck to the filter and not getting sucked up the filter tube, you may have a more serious problem at hand. most well fish, even small fish like neons and my .5 inch cory fry can outswim a filter. they may get curious and swim up the intake if they can. if they ...

while sharp gravel will wear down cory barbles, i have found high nitrates to be much worse. my gravel (flourite) is not extremely sharp, but after a week or so i found my cories had slightly shorter barbles. fortunately, they have not shown noticable erosion since and their babies are almost past ...

but i don't think you can get in trouble for listing positive things. i really like the idea of listing good stores in a particular area. it's taking them off the list when they get criticized that poses the biggest problem (as far as i can see).
-Liz

what kinds of chemicals did you add?
did you add a pH lowering substance?
did you rinse the gravel first?

the first and last questions are most important. if you answer those two, we'll be more likely to figure it out.

-Liz

i think over here in the US if you say bad things about a company that might cause them to loose sales, you can get sued. companies won't bother going to individuals because they generally don't influence enough people to impact their sales, but places that offer information to a larger audience ...

shipping etc. could be a problem.

-Liz

yup, antibiotics. fish i got never had so much redness and bleeding though. i guess i either caught it real early (i'm pretty observant when it comes to my fish) or for some reason the infection wasn't as bad. Nautica: do you know when the fish got to the LFS? my favorite LFS generally sells their ...

i saw a cory in the LFS yesterday that looked much like C. punctatus. it's probably C. punctatus, but i was wondering if C. reticulatus has dots as a juvinile that become the squigglies (such a scientific term!) as the fish matures, much like C. trilineatus. anyone know? it looks like this fish may ...

[quote="BIGblue] The more filtration the better. My tank is kind of cloudy right now. I slowed down the feeding and do water changes more often. It still gets cloudy after a couple of weeks.[/quote] 3 possibilities come to mind. if your tank is cloudy-white or grey: 1) bacterial bloom caused by an ...

i'm not too keen on the rating idea. first off, people's opinions of what constitutes a good fish shop will differ. second, putting in 1-5 suggests that people could put up negative comments which we could get in trouble for. if we have a rating system of 5-10, with specific criteria that have to be ...

i think the entries would have to be read to make sure they contained positive information. i know you can get in trouble for having negative commentary about products. the same is probably true for fish stores. there would also need to be some way of providing feedback and adjusting the comments on ...

i think it'd be a great idea to have some place to put this information, but i don't think the forums are the best places for this. maybe this should be posted in the suggestions forum? i'm thinking it'd be best if we could submit descriptions and contact info for a store (phone number and address ...

Great! i'm glad the fry aren't holding back my social life as much as i thought! Thanks Ian!
-Liz

at what point is it safe for me to leave the fry like that? this is my first spawn, but i'm sure i'll have others.

-Liz

i had a batch of C. aeneus hatch on 2/27/03. right now about 2/3 of them are starting to really look like adults and get the adult coloration and body shape. the other 1/3 are varied in size and look like large fry, not so much like the adults. the tank is an established 20gal long with minimal ...

sounds to me like you haven't heard of the nitrogen cycle. if i'm wrong, skip the next 2 sections and continue reading at the 3rd. a non-technical explaination of the nitrogen cycle: fish eat food and excrete ammonia. good bacteria #1 eat ammonia and excrete nitrite. good bacteria #2 eat nitrite and ...

it could be septicemia, a bacterial infection. there are lots of medications you can use. i've had luck with maracyn2.

-Liz

cories are just fine now. they hatched on 2/27 and many are starting to take on the colors of their parents. some are still very small though, and i'm a bit concerned about these late bloomers. a little over half have the deep body and finnage of their parents, but about 1/3 are as long as the ...

i'm pretty sure it was algae, as it was growing on all the plastic plants as well, and cutting back on the lights made it go away. a hatching of snails took care of the green stuff i'm not sure why it was sticking, but it has since stopped.

-Liz