This week, with another cold morning, two mature females spawned, giving hundreds of eggs which I now have in a breeder box in the main tank.

Do I need to protect the eggs from the small (under 1 cm) aquarium snails which come onto the box from the side of the tank? They keep coming in through the ...

Having just had the first spawn by our group of C. Aeneus, I am trying to figure out the best conditions for lowest mortality of new-hatched fry. I have seen differing views on whether it is better to have a barebottomed, highly vacuumed tank for the fry, or a half inch layer of mulm and/or debris ...