I think that was part of the problem I had at first when I was removing the eggs. I did not wait a few hours to remove them. Now I know why. Thanks Rich. As soon as I get rid of some of these darn angels I will be able to concentrate on the cories. The angels are taking over my house!. And now when ...

Sure did fishnut2. I got 3 fry from the last spawn...they are actually about a half inch long now. The last spawn fungused on me just like they have before even with the meth blue in the tank. I am not sure what is going on, but I haven't exactly been working real hard with them right now. I am in a ...

white usually means non-fertile. Fungused is when they are covered in a white cottony substance.

I feel like I have been talking to myself here except for Viking bear...heh. But today I looked into the tank and saw something scoot across the bottom. YES! an honest to god living fry!! I watched for a couple minutes to see if there were anymore in there and saw one more scurrying around. There ...

Thats all I needed Shane, unfortunately I cannot read swedish or german or japanese. Heck I have a hard enough time with spanish. However I will need to re-read that article. There was something about that article that raised a lot of questions when I last read it...There was some key information ...

I have been doing a google search, and found one guy in japan that is claiming to be breeding altums...unfortunately the fish shown are peruvians not true altums. I have been searching through web pages for the last 3 hours and have found nothing to show they have been successfully bred. I did find ...

Is there an english version of that site? I would love to read it.

What I don't understand if this is really the case, how come nobody on the angelfish boards or The Angelfish Society knows about this? I would like to see proof. If these claims are true, then these people need to share their knowledge with the rest of the hobby as to how this was accomplished. Some ...

Barbie, Those "altums" are simply peruvian altum which are nothing more than a scalare variant. There have been no confirmed reports of viable altum spawns with surviving fry as of yet. Key phrase is surviving fry because it seems anyone who has gotten them to hatch, they quickly die off. I did hear ...

all that is in the tank are the 11 pygmies and 5 pandas.

Gino, yes and no. If you sold only "perfect" Angel fish, you would offer only Pterophyllum altum, P. dumerilii, and P. scalare. Shane If I could sell plain P.scalare, I would, but none of the shops in the area want them. As Far as P.Altum goes nobody has figured out how to raise them in an aquarium ...

yes I have tried meth blue. In fact I have a gallon of the stuff...heh I breed Angels so I tend to go throught the little bottles very quickly .

ok guys I hope you can help me here. I think my corydoras Pygmaeus have spawned but I am not sure. I did a water change yesterday and I just looked in the tank and see what looks like a couple blobs of something on the glass each "blob" is about half the size of a dime and looks like there are ...

Regarding the hole in the angelfish bit, Dr. Joanne Norton did an experiment to determine if these notches were genetic, period. Nobody in professional angelfish circles breeds for this trait. It is a defect and these fish are culled. I am an angelfish breeder if that means anything here and only ...

Congratulations on your fry guy. I have been trying to raise cory eggs, albino aneus to be precise for a while. They spawn a couple times a week, yet I never get any fry out of them. I have tried artifiacily hatching to no avail. The eggs fungus almost immediatley. I have found that they seem to ...

Shane, In CG's defense I looked up bristle nose plecostamus under common name and came up with two entries sp 1 and sp 3 neither of which mentioned the longfin varety. Un less you look it up via scientific name sp.5 doesn't even appear. Also in regards to his location, did you bother to look at his ...

thats what I have heard too. From what I understand there are at least two separate genes for albino. Without having ancistrus with identical albino genes, you won't get albino offspring. Its not as cut and dry as it it with other fish like angels, which with the known genetics can be very ...

I find the longfin Bristlenose to be a beautiful pleco and is even more impressive when its an albino. These fish have been selectively bred for these traits not man made. If you want to see a manmade fish look at the flowerhorn or parrot cichlids. Those are the true monstrosities to the hobby. But ...

Ok I have tried everything at thing point. I have changed tanks to bare bottom and left the eggs in the tank while pulling the parents with no meds in the water. They are not fungusing as quickly may take a few days, but it seems they are not being fertilized. I can understand this if was using a ...

I have 6 fish in the group. 3 males and 3 females. They were a proven colony I had gotten from someone I knew at a fish swap. I know they are a group cuz I have seen the fry. I only used that much meds in the hatching bowl because that is what works for angels which are the only fish I have ...

I am fairly new to cories. I bought a bunch at a swap meet a couple weeks ago. I have ornatus, pygmaeus, albino aneus and brochis splendens. The albinos have spawned 3 nights in a row now, but no matter what I do they fungus within 24 hours even with meth blue in the water. What gives? I have always ...