Oh what a beautiful day!! We went to Seattle this afternoon to get some sand for the tanks...and ended up going to a place called King's Discus and got a steal of a deal....They had little baby discus kids....so we got 5 of them...then we went to another store and what do our wondering eyes do we find.....Corydora habrosus cats....(I was drooling over them last night) so we cleaned house and got 17 of the little one's...And....then we found Apistogramma's and we bought 4 and were given an extra...what a great day in a liquid sunshine day here in WA
Cool...we have a few 'pigmy cory's'....I think Bob raised them at one time....cute little snots
Sounds like you had a fun day. I like the Apistogramma's but they are hard to find.
What kind of apistogramma did you get?
Egg eating little buggers they are these corys.
Quote from: Frank The Plumber on November 13, 2012, 01:59:59 PM
Egg eating little buggers they are these corys.
I think that's because they're the only ones that know where they put em......LOL
:o no kidding Jon....
is there a specific temp they like better?
They'll take from 72-82 deg's and I tried 78, so far...active but I don't see much yet....perhaps Bob has some pointers??
ok we are at 75 with no heater
Sounds like a fun day would love to find a store with baby discus. The one really good lfs closed here and the other one I think is more saltwater. They have a few freshwater but not many.
This store does mostly all discus!!! and the babies we got were one's that they have the parents of!!!
Quote from: Jo on November 13, 2012, 06:18:57 PM
Sounds like a fun day would love to find a store with baby discus. The one really good lfs closed here and the other one I think is more saltwater. They have a few freshwater but not many.
Lower the water level day by day until the tank is half full. Leave the water level low for several days to simulate the dry season. Then top off the tank with water ten degrees cooler.
Can it be just fresh tap water?
Quote from: Rjb3 on November 13, 2012, 07:28:25 PM
Lower the water level day by day until the tank is half full. Leave the water level low for several days to simulate the dry season. Then top off the tank with water ten degrees cooler.
Yup
Normally, I would say raise the temperature slightly as the water level is reduced. You could try a 25w heater depending on how big the tank is. They should do back flips when the cool water hits. That simulates the snow run off from the mountains.
It's been a while and I almost forgot. Don't feed them during the water level reduction period. Hit them with live worms and lots of high fat high protein foods after you introduce the cool water.
Thank you so much...I so would love to succeed in getting a few cory fry!! They are the only "cats" I can get!!!
My C. oapoquensis are spawning as we speak.
hmmmm breeding gods at work again...wish it would work for our fish...
Quote from: Rjb3 on November 13, 2012, 08:32:54 PM
My C. oapoquensis are spawning as we speak.
Thanks guys... Another item on the honey do list... :o
Lori is wants to try this over the weekend.. NO!! Realy thanks for helping us out.... ;D
Well thanks to an over abundance of assassin snails....we have added to our cory cat family. We now have Pygmy Cory's and a few more of the Red Rili shrimp!!!! I love the looks of the mini cats as they are swimming around in front of us!!
Thank you Aron for picking them up for us!!!
Nice.....good luck with them... ;D
Cute little group of 6 of them!!!
Quote from: Mugwump on November 15, 2012, 12:20:58 PM
Nice.....good luck with them... ;D
I put ours in a 10gal with the Celestial Pearl Danios and a few BN juvies....Some small anubias and guppy grass...they love it in there...
We have a small anubias, subwassartang and whisper algae banana plant...and so far they are looking like happy little kids they peek up over the top of the monitor to say hi!!!