It may not exactly match the home range temps but C panda, C similis (violet) and Apsidoras black phantom (C35?) have all been doing fine in my discus tank over 1 year now. All three of these are available through the wholesalers this year, they seemed to be pretty popular on the West Coast.

I currently hosting my first 4 eggs in a plastic floating container, 7 days now no hatch , but it looked at first I saw an embryo inside.

Could you perhaps post the water parameters for what worked (housewren) and what didn't (tjudy) ?

kH, gH, temp, NO3, NO2, pH, TDS if you have a meter

Well, got fungus on the eggs on day 2. I had added methylene blue but didn't know how much to use so I had added 1 drop in 10gal. Looks like I needed 10 drops / 10 gal. The tank was bare and freshly clened, but I fear I had forgotten to similarly clean the totally died out box filter from storage ...

Ok, so a friend (Boun in SFBAAPS) has some C sterbai that layed quite a few eggs, he was able to save about 70 or so before the rummy noses ate them. I'm going to raise them in a separate 10g tank, any preffered temp? I see breeding happens at 24-25 for one poster above, 27 to 30C for another. Ok ...

Here are out local wholesaler's prices in California, add 20- 100% markup to figure out retail: Gold nugget-L18 MD $16.80 Goldy peacock-L14 MD $40.00 Goldy peacock-L14 XL $104.00 Xingu tiger pleco-L15 LG $20.00 Royal-brkn strp-L191 MD $16.80 The MD are around 3-4" I saw several today. They ...

I just got 5 juvenile panda corys and put them in a heavily planted tank with 7 young discus , SAEs and otos, and clown loaches. Like many aquatic gardners are now trying, I used Turface ProLeague gray for the top half of substrate over Profile Aquatic Plant soil. It grows plants great. But it's ...