I have a 300 gallon tank (8' x 2' footprint). It currently houses a marble sailfin pleco (Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps) which has reached about 12". I had planned for this to be the only pleco in the tank, but a small (~2" currently) fish labelled as a spotted sailfin pleco (probably a ...

Yes, the water should be the same. Same source, same temperature.

The filter is something I'm a bit puzzled about. The filter's an aquaclear, and normally what I do is keep the biomedia for it inside the filter on my community tank. That keeps it populated with bacteria, so when I need to use the ...

My first attempt at breeding C. Aeneus has ended in failure, and I'm not sure what went wrong. I thought I would share my experience here in the hopes that some experienced breeders might be able to point out mistakes I made or tell me things that I assumed were normal were not.

I have a 75g ...

followup: The eggs have started to hatch. So, that answers at least part of the question.

I have four corydoras in my tank that were sold as bronze corys, but I have noted some differences in appearance and I'm not sure what to make of them.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/starmike82/DSC_0673.jpg
This one looks like a "normal" bronze cory to me, for whatever that's worth. Two ...