i swear. im expecting the trilineatus to spawn today. they got a water top off 36 hours ago. they got blood worms last night. its pretty much a foregone conclusion. the 36 eggs i collected should be hatching on tuesday. so many fry. i love watching the newest fry reappear. as wigglers, they ...

hehehehehhe sounds like youre going to have your hands full

ive been pondering putting birthcontrol in the water (not seriously). my trilineatus are breeding machines right now. theyve been spawning about every 5 days for over a month now. this past week ive had 105 eggs hatch. another 3 dozen were laid yesterday.

ive got a ten gallon set up to grow them ...

I agree all corys are different, i'm relative new to corys and have only kept them since last september,within a week my trilineatus had started spawning,they only give a few eggs,the most being around 16 eggs ,within 3-4 hours i then remove them (after playing hunt the eggs) when they've stopped ...

are you keeping a substrate in your fry tank? im new to raising cory fry (this is something like my fifth attempt at it so take my advice with a grain of salt). i had 100% failure prior to adding some sand from the parent tank to a breeder box that has remained in the parent tank near the output of ...

so far so good. ive lost 2, but they were very skinny and may have just been weaker than the rest. the rest are fattening up though and the ones with blunted whiskers are showing signs of healing. these little guys are a blast to watch

keep your eyes peeled...sometimes good deals come through.

i got my 35 for $25...O_o

ive been noticing how quickly this bunch settled in. none are acting stressed or odd. ALL are eating like pigs. watching them eat is AMAZING. i watched some sinking wafers disappear in about 20 minutes this morning.

i cant wait to put them all in one tank. i plan to plant the sides and leave the ...

hmm...at least 4 weeks i guess. preferably longer.

i got a group of 35 the other day. 9 are mixed trilineatus and possibly julii. the remaining 26 are definately agassizii. to these i will add my 8 odd corys (3 brochis splendens, 3 paleatus, 1 trilineatus, and 1 schwartzi; the trilineatus and schwartzi were in larger groups that died out).

im ...

oi. my landlord pays for the water here (we've double checked about all of the fishtanks) and i still think hed be mad if he had to pay for all of that...

uh, here in the us, unless there has been a disaster, generally its not necessary to take water purification quite that far. nor do i have time/energy to boil water for a dozen tanks ;P (smallest is 25 gallons; largest right now is 100). great idea, but not practical for lots of huge tanks in a ...

thanks everyone for your sympathy. ive been monitoring my tank all day today watching the ammonia level drop (whew). it was 1ppm at 1am, .5ppm at 7am, and just a trace (less than .25ppm) at 1pm. we will be letting water sit overnight before water changes until the ammonia disappears from the tap ...

i ALWAYS use prime. removes chlorine and chloramines. it also is supposed to lock ammonia in a non toxic state. but if the water company mucked with the water chemistry, it may take more prime to detoxify the water. time to let water sit overnight before doing water changes again. this is the second ...

for whatever reason, we did a water change yesterday and wound up with an ammonia spike (1ppm >:/) both of my L239's died. everyone was fine immediately after the water change, so i thought nothing about turning off the light and going to bed.

it was really hot and my bf and i werent sleeping well ...

2 so far, but theres a guy who is selling some for $15 a piece. we are trying to find out more info on them (basically how long hes had them and if hell let me see them and pick out potential females) before buying some.

i have no idea. i just looked in one day a couple of months ago and it was there. he eats like a pig though and it gets a bit tinier every day, so i just leave him be.

its going to be interesting soon. my bf bought me a 110 gallon that i am going to be moving my plants and my community fish into ...

there is a really good thread buried in here with links to how a guy in france managed to get his to spawn. youll have to dig a bit, then run the links through babelfish, but there is a total wealth of information in there

good luck! id like to breed these little guys too.

if these guys are new, it may take some time for the odonts to grow in properly. my definitive male had very short odonts for a long time. it took about 6 months before real growth was evident. now he had uber odonts!

whoa!!!! amazing.

if you are in so cal and want more, i have plenty ;)

my L239, vincent, decided to up and devour a chunk of shrimp last night. so weird. hes never touched the stuff as far as i have seen before, and ive had him now for over a year!

bahahahahahha! hunting plecos? must be awesome to watch

my gibby LOVES mushrooms. he will come up to the surface to take them from your hand

massivore pellets (my l239's LOVE them)
amazon swords
red rubin swords

heres vincent. yesterday morning i woke up and he was sitting on the spray bar in my tank.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b325/theladyisthetiger/vincent%20L239s/DSC04185.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b325/theladyisthetiger/vincent%20L239s/DSC04183.jpg

you can still see the wound on ...

he got some sort of injury. its healing, but very slowly. its been about a month. it didnt start healing until i used neosporin. but hes perky, eating and fiesty. he and the new blue squabble a little, but im not seeing overt signs of aggression between them. until the other blue grows up a bit, i ...

nothing recently. my tank has become a JUNGLE and i dont want to take photos of him while the injury to his nose is still healing (i feel vain for him). i should try to get some good shots of his cheek odonts though. they are getting really long

that one is definately a male. he now has HUGE bristles on his gills and his pectoral fins look like they could be medieval weapons! hes also not very round when viewed from overhead.

i have a second one now that may be a female (we'll see in 6 months). much rounder and a lot less bristly.

they are RIDICULOUSLY hard to keep. in my experience, keep an eye out for parasites, and having a MATURE tank is essential to keeping them. quarantine is hard on them unless there is substrate and wood and plants for them. they tend to be super picky eaters, so having stones coated in fishfood/egg ...

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