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Recent content by Corie Dora

  1. Corie Dora

    trying to spawn eunotus

    I re-did the setup for these fish, planted out a 15g tank, sand bottom oak leaves all over the place and several clay pots. I put sub-adult cacatuoides in as dithers. Haven't introduced the male yet, but the female seems happy.
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    deformed ventrals

    Well, unfortunately I've lost the male since the spawning, so letting the pair produce again is out of the question. The female was sick for a while as well (this all occured 8 weeks after spawning and 4 weeks after separation from the young) and has now been treated. She's nearly 3 yrs old...
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    deformed ventrals

    That's the weird thing....the female was a second gen. fish from a really clean line I purchased from another hobbyist. I'd never seen any problems in the fry I had previously, though I didn't raise them very intensively. The male, I bought at a shop and had come straight out of singapore...
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    trying to spawn eunotus

    so what is the kh & ph in your spawning tank? My ro isn't perfect, and is around 80 ppm kh; my tap water is *really* hard when it comes out. My ph is around 7.2. Besides water, I'm really concerned about what type of setup I should put them in, as what I gave them wasn't working out and...
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    trying to spawn eunotus

    I was recently aquired a pair of apisotgramma eunotus. I set them up in a sand bottomed 10g tank, with several flower pots a few plastic plants and a sponge. A few cories were with them as they were purchased at the same time. In a few days it appeared that they had spawned, the female was...
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    deformed ventrals

    I have a batch of around 60 cacatuoides juvies, and it appears that nearly all of them have deformed ventrals. Some are missing them entirely, some are missing just one, and most of them have one or two deformed stubby little ventrals. Other than that these fish are doing great, and are large...
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    sunken belly and clamped fins

    Fecal samples? Is that something I can do myself? I have a small microscope. I was wondering about parasites myself and thinking that maybe the chill lowered her immunity and gave a good window for something to develop. I will try to post a pic soon.
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    sunken belly and clamped fins

    I have a female cacatuoides which underwent a day of stress a few weeks ago when a heater failed. The tank temp dropped from 80F to 60F overnight. I was able to slowly raise the temp the next day, but she has been losing weight ever since, and now has a clearly sunken belly. She swims with...
  9. Corie Dora

    belly sliders

    Thanks Lars, that's very helpful. I'm not really sure if that's what I'm observing. I have bred this species before, but not in such a concentrated effort as now. I seem to remember the fry hovering about, especially when they were larger. I have also bred Angels, pseudotropheus and...
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    belly sliders

    I'm looking for as much information as possible on belly sliders, and wanting to know what if any, are people's experiences with them. My experience:I had a batch of cacatuoides last month, only 6 fish survived due to an accident. All of them what I *think* are belly sliders. They are all...
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    My wild discus tank

    Kingborris, I've had this tank as my wallpaper for the past week. Your tank is immensely inspiring to me. My husband and I spent an evening looking over your tank plans and planning a dream tank & adjoining pond system of our own which we'll build 'one day' when we build our dream home. I...
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    Motionless wigglers

    Nope. Actually I didn't even change water from the time they spawned until today, I was too scared I'd disturb the mother. They left the cave yesterday. And even then I was very careful to heat it to one degree above the tank temp, using the same thermometer (the extra degree is to compensate...
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    Motionless wigglers

    Well, I'm still hanging tight then. I don't want to raise the temp as I'm trying to get a good even mix of males/females so 76 is supposed to do that. I swear they're eating though, as the only time they move is when I squirt bbs into the cave. I don't see how it could be possible to have...
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    Motionless wigglers

    :( Shucks. I was hoping someone would tell me that this is normal sometimes :( Water parameters are: Temp. 76F, dkh 5, ph 7.2, nitrite/nitrate 0, doing water changes twice weekly of about 25-30%. I'm feeding the mother bbs, frozen bloodworms and red wigglers. Are they usually free...
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    Motionless wigglers

    I have a female caca who has been guarding a clutch which was spawned 7 days ago. I can easily see into the cave; there are only 10 wigglers as there was an issue with an extra fish accidently being in that tank on day 3. Thus far, I have only seen one of the wigglers move. They all just...
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