on my pleco tank i have 580gph movement on the 20gallon tank. For plecos having spots where the water is really fast and spots where there is no movement is key. At times they will prefer faster movement , but when they sleep I find they enjoy a slower current.

bad angle on the fish to the left, but comparing they both look male to me. The "hips" don't have a curve to them and that usually indicates female.

ottos are unfortunately not very hardy fish. with an average lifespan of 2 years they don't last long. I find that they are very easily fine one day then dead the next. I had several ottos for over 5 months one day they both just died. within hours of each other. None of the other fish were affected ...

rofl thats a very large spawn of plecos. You might have to seperate that happy couple before your up to your eyeballs in baby L397

i have had mixed experiences with corys barbels and i am a skeptic on the constant advise of using sand with corys. I have kept my corys with large smooth gravels and sands. my corydoras delphax have almost 1/4 inch barbels and haven't had any problems. Your may be do to either barbel infection ...

corys have the ability to live in warmer water of up to 90 degrees F is necessary ( for short periods of time). to help cool my tanks in the Louisiana summer ( which is btw over 100 degrees at times) I remove the lids of the tanks replace them with wire mess to stop jumpers and escapees. Then i'll ...

plecoboy was selling some L333's on aquabid. and he lives close to you. He's a really good seller i would buy from him again. But i will never part with my L333's =p their just to cute.

then you know more than i do about the soil structure of the amazon. lol i can only read not see. I did read an article saying they liked to bury themselves in mud. My corys while active in the morning are very scared of people. They tend to be shy and when approached cluster up under or in ...

it's over and it's not worth my time clearly nobody could help. It has just turned into pointless bickering that's going nowhere. so i am editing my posts and please delete this thread.

[Mod edit: Ok. I've locked this thread --Mats]

Yes, but the origin of this thread is to find a cause for poor health in your fish, and if every time someone points out a potential cause, you immediately come back with "but that's OK because " followed by some sort of inaccurate/misunderstanding, it is quite useful to try to rectify that ...

To say Jools does not = knowledge in any way, shape, or form, while you're actually using this fantastic information filled site is offensive to me. The man is a walking catfish encyclopedia. Look around! Making slanderous comments without personal experience could make the board libel for your ...

This unusual behavior usually is because of stress. Wether that stress is fron bacteria, other fish, the water, salt, or chemicals I don't know. I'd move him to a new tank and treat him with medicated food or melafix. If you have no other tanks a bucket will do. Keep him in their about 3 days. Then ...

I doubt you watch your cories all the time. They tend to stay in a safe cave or in a corner of the tank when your watching. However about 1am if you watch them with no lights you will see amazing things. I see my cories dancing across the tank schooling in groups of three. They parade around doing ...

being that my water is 75-82 i hardly find that out of the ordinary from nearly every range on every website including this one!!!!!!! http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=474 Can I point out that you use a link that says 70-75F to motivate that your range of 75-82 is correct ...

this can also be caused by excessive amounts of salt added to the water.. Did you happened to add salt when you changed the water?

It seems as though it is more of a fraction of the people here that seem to disagree and have some "smart" comment to make about everything. Don't include yourself with the majority to fool yourself into thinking your correct. How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and ...

administator or not doesn't give him the right. Posts don't = power. nor do they = knowledge. Indeed and my position does not give me, or anyone else, the right to be rude either. I asked a legitimate question looking to understand your experience in the matter (I was interested to see if this was ...

“One I really don't care what you have to say. (As far as your first 3 parts of your post) “ How convenient to not care about your own inaccuracies. “Please read any good article on cories and you'd know that they live in small tidal pools in the Amazon. These tidal pools can get up to 90 degree.” D ...

If you are aware of any misidentified corys (or other species) in the Cat-eLog, please report it for correction in the "Suggestions and Bugs" forum - even if you are just doubting the correctness of a particular species. As far as I'm aware, there are no major inaccuracies - which unfortunately isn ...

“Thus for that second my device takes it's reading their is more than saturation.” I can’t speak for you, but most DO monitors do not measure dissolute oxygen as that would defy the purpose of the machine. The ones I have used in laboratory work are membrane bound galvanic instruments, which do not ...

Note also that what Ian doesn't know about corys is either REALLY obscure, or not worth knowing. And he is the one that decided that cw001 is different than C. delphax/brevirostris etc and assigned it "CorydorasWorld 001". So if he can't tell the difference, I don't think anyone can. -- Mats What ...

So our possiblites are
Corydoras Delphax possibly
Corydoras Brevirostris possibly
CW001 not sure on this one i can't find any good pictures
I ruled out Corydoras melanistius because of lack of pattern on tail.

I can get a good picture of the tail and the top fin tomarrow. maybe...

well after staring at pictures on google for about 3 billion hours ive conclude they are either or

I agree with Mats on the temp and the gravel. And I prob would on the oxygen but I do not understand that. :oops: You do not seem very receptive to ideas for your cories. gravel i know but i haven't had any problem so far with the barbels of the big group. Temperature well it's voided because i ...

as the cories breath they would consume the o2 dissolved into the water so technically the bubbles rising to the top in the time would slowly be dissolved on a minute scale. Thus throwing my meter off. By having oxygen reading high than saturation it is insured that my water has full o2 saturation ...

hmm neither of those look like them since fish b doesn't really have spots its more like lines. Group a has a line black blotch below its dorsal fin and a line up the fin of black. It varies with each of the fish in the school however. well i can narrow it down to one of these It was sold to me as ...

Pardon me sounding like an ass , but really are you going to suggest the two things i specifically said i know it is not? Of course my water can't have more dissolved o2 than water can hold. That’s why their is bubbles. However the measurement device i use also factors in the amount of o2 being r ...

hmm like 40 veiws , but nobody can id them rofl now you guys know how i feel. They look like 9 different cories rofl. I think they might be a hybrid species.

hmm 16$ a piece is high. I get my fish from either tfdfish.com (wholesaler) or from aquabid.com. Most of the time Tfd is cheaper. However aquabid almost always has a supply of cories in groups of 6-20. I see them often for under 8$ at that size. found you a link to some for reference or for anyone ...

This fools nobody, but apparently with a few American dollars they are allowed to be exported. Interesting - you've knowledge of this? Jools Are you questioning my knowledge on the subject or joking with me that i might be involved in illegal activity? To answer your question my friend is an ...