Are Adolfi difficult to ship? I purchased a group of Adolfi from a dealer, and twice the fish arrived with many DOA ... out of 32 fish, only 3 have survived. Is this normal, or is it more likely the dealer has weak fish and/or poor shipping practices?

Hi ... I too have a breeding colony of wild Sterbai. They have become fairly productive over the past year. I'm not a Cory expert, but I've been breeding angelfish and Discus commercially for over 12 years. In fact, cory have been somewhat of a mystery to me until recently. I believe the "trick" is ...

OK ... my batch of (easily over) 100 fry is growing quite well ... though I did notice several dead fry yesterday on the bottom of the tank. The fry are approaching 1 month old. They are in a 10 gallon bare-bottomed tank with 2 4inch cube sponge filters. I feed live baby brine shrimp twice a day ...

OK ... It's been almost 2 weeks, and I have over 100 Sterbai fry growing very well in a 10 gallon tank with 2 large 4x4x4 Sponge filters ... feeding baby brine 2x daily. Moved about a dozen and put them in 2 tanks with Betta fry (figured they help clean up the bottoms). I'll post pixs soon. Now ...

TANK SIZE QUESTIONS - Can you spawn ancistrus in a 10 gallon tank? Would a 20L be better? How about a 55 gallon? WATER MOVEMENT - Do ancistrus spawn better in a tank with lots of water movement? TEMPERATURE - best? SPAWNING SITE - I've heard ancistrus like to spawn in barnacle clusters ... does PVC ...

Based on the info in this site, I believe these guys to be in fact Trilineatus. If I get a chance I'll shoot some pictures and post them. Thanks.

I have a colony of tank-bred ancistrus ... currently in a 125 gallon with 20 adult angels. I'm trying to find a "formula" for regularly spawning these guys ... I use the juvies to keep my 25 tanks clean (I breed angels, discus amd bettas). What are the successful methodologies you folks are using ...

OK ... they eggs hatched (Yesterday, 1/20) in both tanks, and I put sponge filters in both. How long before I should start feeding baby brine? I fed with vinager eels today ... any other suggestions?

Jeff

I have 9 C.Sterbai set up in two 10 gallon tanks (4 and 5). Last night (full moon, storm coming) I did a 50% water change. Vola! Eggs scatterd in both tanks this morning. I removed the adults to two 29 gallon tanks and added some formalin to the water in the 10s ... hopefully the eggs will hatch ...

I have a colony of 12 C. Julii I acquired from a friend who imports from SA. I've had them for almost 6 months. How easy is it to breed Julii? Should I do anything special? How big should they be? I have no idea how old they are.

Thanks

Jeff