Has anyone here had any experience with jaundice in a cory? If so, what caused it and were you able to treat it? Last night I had put my two new peppered cories into the 3 gallon hospital tank and very soon I had noticed that the one I'd presumed "healthy" had turned yellow and has stayed ...

Have you ever tried taking the well water entirely out of the equation? Friends of ours went to sell their house and to their shock during their home inspection they learned that their well water tested positive for elevated levels of bad bacteria. Not enough evidently to make a healthy or acclimate...

Well I did take it one step further right after my last post. Once I got my daughter and her friend set up in an activity I went to try and take a pic of the paleatus and noticed his or her belly looked darker and reddish more so than the other's. The light in there is not good at the moment because...

The water parameters are good and water changes on quarantine tank are minimum of 40% daily. No ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates variable due to water changes but less than 10--however I don't really trust this tank is cycled because the nitrites tend to look like they inch up if I'm late with the wat...

A couple of days ago my 2 new Paleatus adults started swimming funny...by funny I mean they were hovering like hummingbirds all around the tank, often with one pushing down on top of the other until the other was forced to land on the bottom. I don't know that they ever went into t T spawning positi...

Hi Lara, Welcome to the forum...I'm kind of new still, too. The gravel if it was smooth should not have caused barbel damage. My cories (including sterbai) were on gravel for a few months and even with problems with the tank not being fully cycled & some nitrite and ammonia spikes occuring, I ne...

I'm so sorry to butt in again, but I feel very strongly that you all are missing a very important reason for adding salt to a cory tank. It makes them tastier! Mmmm....salted catfish...

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Oops, sorry...just saw your "My Cats" list. I totally missed that because I was thinking it was what you already had vs. what you wanted to have. I did the same thing...I had put the debawi cat on my "My Cats" list, too, thinking I was bookmarking it as something I was interested...

Hmm...it looks like you have got some seriously small fish on that list for such a large tank that you will be viewing from a bit of a distance! :shock: And Kuhli loaches like to keep out of sight a lot of the time. My dad had some that would come out during the day even though they are supposed to ...

I take it you mean to work with a tube-shaped sponge & put it over my existing intake? I will go see if I can find one of those, then--I THINK I saw sponges like that at some point during my wanderings. The things I'd been looking at had the sponge on plastic intake tubes and didn't look like th...

Whoops...did I say half of my pandas are not even a full centimereter in length? Yeesh! No, they are not fry. What was I thinking when I typed THAT? A centimeter between markings, maybe. I think they are a little under TWO centimeters, the smaller ones anyway.

Unfortunately I am probably already overstocked with what I currently have. Actually, I'm CERTAIN I'm overstocked and have way too many cories for one forty US gallon tank--especially if you take into account their anticipated sizes at maturity. I know that I'll have to be VERY patient and gradual g...

Now that I have two tanks of cories to compare, I'm noticing some intriguing differences. The ones in the new quarantine tank do not live with Danios and their eating habits are completely different from the ones who do. The ones living with Danios eat like Danios--meaning they will eat floating foo...

Oh, almost forgot, my filter baskets were totally seated properly on the Rena XP3. Sooo...next tank...Eheim. And probably the Classic model. I don't feel as intimidated at the thought of working with one now. A little, but by the time I'm able to set up the second permanent tank, I should have even ...

Hi Wrasse, Oh yes, I have totally been in agreement since the beginning of planning my canister purchase that I would need a sponge prefilter. I just haven't been able to find one locally that I was sure would fit the Rena XP3. And hadn't had enough free time online to really shop very well. I could...

Thank Mats, for the info. Can you help me with another question? What is a trace element and is it relevant to filling in the gap of what may be causing problems with some of the breeders' work? For example I know people take trace elements in their vitamin supplements, and it's not much, but suppos...

I had actually taken off the spraybar um...sometime last week I think. I couldn't have the spraybar AND have room for the HOB filter I plan to put in the accessory cutout on the rear of the SeaClear. So I'm running the default jet nozzle or whatever Rena calls their version of the return nozzle. The...

Oh gosh, I hate to butt in here since I don't know diddly squat. But I was wondering...could it be that salt in some way mimics the properties of some substance that IS found in the cories' native waters? So even though yes, cories aren't normally salty critters, they're deriving a benefit that perh...

Oh...if you get a chance, go over and read the discussion on this forum about Sterbai Breeding Question. One of the breeders give a very detailed analysis of the various things that can cause sterba fry to die. Some of the items he brought up had a ring of familiarity to some of my losses or others ...

Hmm...awhile back when I was losing fish left and right, some of them (danios and cories) did have one protruded & maybe slightly reddened eye but only right before death. The other common symptom was they wasted away down to nothing, with some of the cories looking more like tadpoles than fish,...

Gerry and Larry, Thank you both for your replies. I'll have to take a look and make sure the baskets are seated properly. I found to my dismay the last time I had opened up the filter to check it out that the baskets had indeed come askew. I could have sworn then I had put them in snug this time--do...

I'm just not sure what to think of my Rena XP3 filter performance. Originally I cut it some slack since I had left the intake hose a few inches too long and I was using another manufacturer's intake tubes. But now I've put things to rights and performance still isn't what I'm getting from running tw...

I wish I could take credit for having sense, but it's not a matter of my having sense enough to realize anything. It's my ability to read that has saved an innocent redtail--the Cat-E-Log is an amazing resource. :D That's why when I can, I will continue to donate to this site. With the internet and ...

Yes, I was going to order the Aquarium Atlas for myself, but then my dad was asking me what I'd like for my next birthday and I thought that would be a great gift and easy for him to get, too. He's always loved getting me books. LOL--I bet it will be pre-read by the time it gets wrapped up as my bir...

Prefilters...yeah...saves little fishies from getting sucked in, too. Had that happen to a Danio awhile back. I just haven't had much luck finding ones I was sure would fit my Rena. I saw some I liked at the LFS and it listed a bunch of brands it was compatible with except for mine. :roll: Well I've...

Wow, bummer of a mistake but I'm glad to hear it's working out for you! I almost went with an Ecco. Maybe next time I will go with an Eheim of some sort, as you are now the gazillionth person I've heard describe the quality and workmanship of an Eheim. After we finish remodeling and repainting the f...

:D Yeah I can just imagine your excitement at getting the new filter. I've just gone through the same excitement myself. I think it will work out well for you. That was a good price you got. I have a Eclipse BioWheel hood arrangement on my 3 gallon hospital tank. The cartridge filter does fill up fa...

Update: with the baskets properly fitted together, everything seems to be working great and no apparent bypass issues anymore.

I recently did what you did, switch out an AquaClear for a canister. It was a great switch and my only regret is that I had not known to start out with a canister filter. I got the Rena XP3. Today I switched out the microfilter pad, since adding new substrate to a new tank quickly dirtied up the mic...

Whoa, Larry, this post has been a huge eye-opener to me. I won't go into a long explanation just suffice it to say I didn't understand some viewpoints expressed among more experienced and dedicated aquarists. So far all I had understood were surface issues, thinking people worked so hard to maintain...