SuperGuppyGirl

Lol, try Fishclubgirl, if she doesn't have excess plants, she'll know who does or the store to shop

How about 15 pygmy corys, 10 daisy blue ricefish. The rice fish are extremely active, brightly colored except males go blue/black when ready to spawn. Look lovely against a planted back ground.

Did you provide the glass or did Aquagiant?

I might check it out. Have to see what the wife had planned tonight first though. Is there aquariums set up etc? Kid friendly? I've never gone before so just wondering what to expect. A room full of fish nuts with some coffee or something is fine by me regardless haha!

ACE is aquarium club of edmonton, if you haven't joined hit up the sponsor forum on here and it should have a link of who to contact for membership, very cheap to join btw

If you are a member, I've heard it is kid friendly, great discussions etc

Whose all coming tonight? Is there a mini auction tonight as well?

10G planted with brown diatoms sounds like otocinclus heaven lol

Hate to say last auction was seriously over run with these "gems", sooooo many cichlids

Awesome, its for the 75G theoretical calvus tank lol. Can finally start building this.

So inlaws are helping me save money on my aquariums, pulled me some beautiful wood from a few lakes in the Yukon. I know the lakes are pollutant free, and only one piece is iffy (flakes off at touch) and they have been dried for a year. I'm going to attempt these in a current empty tank but one of the pieces has some lichen on it, just wondering if I should take that off?

*sigh* tough question, my favorite is Corys LOL

I just have the plain jane Gertrudea lol which im shuffling around so I can tart spawning. I believe Fisher is spawning the gertrudea aru 2

Try least killifish heterandia formosa. I have a thriving community in with my neocaridinas (RCS), and they never bother the shrimplets but man do they love BBS and Daphnia.

Thank you everyone! Given me a lot to start researching, I choose flakes as yes they are messy but easier to crush to start transitioning fry from powder to adult food without storing excess. My elbow room is starting to get very limited. I just use flakes as staple but do very the diet with frozen bloodworms/mysis/cyclopeez and live daphnia, hence the need for lower crude protein.

So cannot get my staple flake anymore which sucks (2nd time a food I used discontinued) as it was excellent, so needing some tips on which next to try. I was using HBH 8 veggie flakes and am looking for something similar, meaning 1st ingredient Spirulina, no ash, and crude protein around 28-30% (my corys get fat bubbles on high protein, the adorable weirdos). I have been surfing finding the usual flakes and hating all the flours/glutens/corn etc. So anyone know of a reasonably priced vegetable flake that can be found rather easily hopefully at a lfs or a localish online place (not looking for stateside shipping eep) as I have no time or inclination to make my own. I had also wondered if I just used red/green/brown seaweed if this would meet all my fish requirements (fish in signature) but not sure. Please help a poor cory lover out....

Incidentally this is hbh ingredients, hated soy flour as 2nd ingredient but loved veggie variety.

Min Crude Protein 28%

Min Crude Fat 9%

Max. Crude Fiber 6%

Max. Moisture 10%.

Ingredients: Spirulina Powder, Soy Flour, Pea Powder, Dehydrated Alfalfa Leaf Powder, Wheat Flour, Wheat Starch, Carrot Powder, Spinach Powder, Fish Meal, Fish Oil, Wheat Germ, Brewers Yeast, Kelp Meal, Zucchini Powder, Kale Powder, Beet Powder, Soybean Oil, Soy Lecithin, Wheat Gluten, Astaxanthin, Natural Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative), Rosemary Extract, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Vitamin A Acetate, Choline Chloride, a-Tocopheryl Acetate (source of Vitamin E), Niacin, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Thiamin, Biotin, Pyridoxine HCl, Folic Acid, D-Activated Animal Sterol (source of Vitamin D3), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Magnesium Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Citric Acid, Salt

Save it for an emergency filter, just use it in a clear Rubbermaid tote. Catch all the leaks just in case of an emergency.

So doing my weekly WC (50%), notice my 2 GBR's both have one bulgy eye. It looks to have had awhile, and too be honest I've not paid any attention to this tank aside from daily feeding and weekly WC. Checked the water and it was cold, stupid heater had quit and tank was sitting at 70F. Tested water to be certain and got ammonia & nitrite 0, nitrates 40ppm. Grabbed a new heater, finished WC, and started warming water up slowly. Sitting at 78F now, added melafix (5mL per 10G), and Epsom salt (1 Tbsp per 5G). Tank is 35G, 7 duplicareous corys, 2 GBR (wild x domestic), 60G sponge filter, and 2" air ball bubbler, sparsely planted with driftwood. Anything else I've forgotten, been a damn long time since I've dealt with this?

Lol I Definately want more but space is an issue, 2-10G full of green laser fry atm that aren't ready to go and my last free 10G is going to end up home for some similis or loretoensis and duplicareus fry I've got hatching lol hubby said no more tanks but would like to sneak in a few more to make an even dozen lol

Current Cory Collection

Might want to check your stocking a bit, zebras and black skirts are schoolers, and IMO get to big for such a small tank. Check out nano fish like least killifish, micro rasboras or bettas for that size. For tanks, check Aqueon Evolve, or JBJ Nanos

As I keep killing off my microworm colonies, I've been using the repashy soilent green in powder form for my cory fry. Just mix in a little container a couple heaping brine shrimp spoonfuls and pour it in. It gels a bit after it settles but is small enough for the green lasers, duplicareous fry I have been using it on. On an average spawn of 80 (green laser) I've maybe lost a total of 10 out of each spawn.

FCG, just wondering how many walls are covered in shelves for your bettas, I'm imagining you have progressed to using over the door hangers like the pocket ones for shoes lol

Excellent! I've been googling but the nylon over tube defeats the purpose, thanks jay!

So have a set up of 3G, with an airstone, hunk of wood with Java Fern attached on a thin sand substrate, how do you clean up your daphnia culture tanks without losing half your culture? Just been adding aged aquarium water to top off but this looks gross.

Donpre77, the English version is called myBFF

The detrius sits on top of sand so you just vacuum over top of it