Awesome! Ill let someone with actual experience answer the questions but them choosing a floating cave does sound handy haha
As a sidenote: Did you make the caves yourself or can one order them somewhere?

Could be white spot (ich). It's hard to see on armoured fish because it's under the plates I suppose it could be but they seem very active and the other fishes don't show any signs/spots either, I do have Waterlife Protozin at home but I don't know if it's compatible with corydoras.. if it is I cou...

I am starting to lose my sanity over my cw009 corydoras. Quick recap- got 7 of them some months ago, during introduction to (cycled) quarantine tank one of them showed signs of what I believed to be hemorrhagic septicemia, it made it through the first couple of days, about a month later one of them ...

I don't know if I am in the minority but had problems adjusting the temperature on eheims, the wheel starts to get hard to adjust and by that point you don't really know what's turning so changing the temp a degree or two is a nightmare. So far I never had one malfunction thankfully but I am not so ...

Ive noticed! haha. Going to the LFS tommorow to see what they have available. You are truly a life saver(Getting input from more experienced keepers is at the very least reassuring), matten filter scares me somehow but guess it's just a filter pad and a powerhead behind it. Might still opt for spong...

I would be fine with spong filters (or a Matten) and a wave maker. Good luck, Eric Thanks, might look into matten filter do you by chance have any guide or something to recommend? Suppose it's kinda easy to make one yourself but hard to judge how porous filter media to use etc. Might still opt to j...

Still working on transforming my small apartment to a mini fishroom! :)) Next up is the second 120litre tank in which I am going to house the L397s. I am considering just using a couple of spongefilters(+wavemaker) for the group of (5 or)6 individuals and maybe some dither tetras would you say this ...

@bekateen Would you say that feeding live blackworms/having them in the tank is key to success with corydoras in general? I never really considered feeding mine live food since, frankly, I don't really like handling it(bugs kinda creep me out I guess) but if it's important I should overcome that sma...

In the first pic, yes- in the second no! haha. Well looking forward to seeing them grow.

Cool! Any updates?

What's your stance on ecological vs non-ecological veggies? For plecos of course!

Moving slowly but over the last couple of days I have managed to setup the first tank in the rack, it's a 120 litres tank which will house my small group of cw009(just 5 left after a couple of mishaps, not sure when I will get the chance to add to the group- dream scenario is that they manage it the...

Progress so far, I am a bit concered that the pieces of wood are not entirely flat(can get a couple of cards inbetween the spirit level and the surface) but I am thinking it should be okay considering the tanks are just 30gal each?). Don't think I can get it much more in level atleast so ill just go...

Had somewhat of a "downperiod" as a far as aquariums are concerned but now stuff happened. I got a good deal on a couple of 75x40x40cm tanks. My idea is to move the L397 group(6 fish) over there, I will separate one since it seems to have some deformity on it's head. I am just a bit afraid...

I got this group of 7 CW009 a couple of months ago. Originally I had some problems with one which I thought to be septicemia, it made it through and everyone has seemed to do well since. Up till two weeks ago that is, I found one dead in the morning figured it was probably the one that had problems ...

There is a "progressive" movement called trans-humanism. This appears merely a complementary branch of trans-animalism. Both are a regress IMHumO and signal the decay and an ensuing end of humanity (to me). Transhumanism is an ideology that advocates for the transformation of the human co...

But how would I attach it in the substrate if not doing that? Currently have it floating but to be honest I think my circulation in the aquarium might be abit strong and it doesn't look to hot right now, might try to attach it to some branches or whatever with your method or just cable ties, I also ...

Okay! I don't really understand what part of it is the stem and what's not(the plant is not in the best of shape so that doesn't help) ill have to check in the morning once lights are on. Maybe ill just try to attach it to something like you did!

I half expected some kind of(well atleast in relevance to the aquarium hobby) life changing event with blood and carnage. Must say that I am a bit disappointed! But I suppose a ton of cichlids is pretty much carnage in it's natural form.

Oh I meant the guianacaras but it is true I feel like my tank is a showcase for different kind of waste products more than anything else! Mine won't eat broccoli for some reason, can't say that I blame them! =)) I like to feed the yams since it's easy to see the orange mounds and just vacuum them ev...

Great looking tank, is that pennywort to the right? (I know close to nothing about plants but it looks very good! :) Yes indeed, hydrocotyle leucocephala, aka Brazilian pennywort. Great plant! I've got it secured on the driftwood rather than planted and it does great Good thing I was right for once...

Appreciate the input decided against the whole thing and ended up with a school of colombian tetras instead, they look amazing already only got 10 though and feel like 10 more wouldn't hurt. In the, not so distant, future I will most certainly get guianacaras but hopefully in a slightly larger tank....

What happened back then? haha

Anybody who think this combination wouldn't work? Water parameter wise it checks out and from what I can read the guianacaras(dacrya) seems to be pretty timid as far as cichlid goes.

Great looking tank, is that pennywort to the right? (I know close to nothing about plants but it looks very good!

Congrautlations, will be very interesting to follow!

Hello again hope you all have a nice weekend! :) I am thinking about ditching the idea of guianacaras till I can get a larger tank setup but that leaves me with the "problem"(granted it's a pretty nice one to have) of finding a fish or two that can go with the L397, I have a hard time find...

Thanks for the input, ill just keep them in a tank alone till they put on some size and I might have a new community tank setup with proper temp etc, put theirs at 23.5 Celsius and will see how that works in the long run.

Time for a short update so that maybe someone read it! Else ill keep this as a journal for the future kinda. 3rd aquarium (100x40x45cm) is up and running and I moved the 13 Sterbais+Bristlenose there, wen't with a second hand tank and the one I ordered a month or so ago will have to sit in the close...

My cw009 are soon finished in quarantine and I am debating where to place them long term(or if they should stay in an aquarium for themselves) but what I get a lot of mixed answers about while googling etc is temperature requirements. What would you guys say is the upper limit for them to stay healt...