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They get sinking pellets and wafers, primarily the black fly larvae Fluval Bugbites and Omega shrimp pellets. Like I said in the OP, they used to get live worms about once per week, but we've gotten lax about that in the last few months because the worms have become hard to get. Now and then I...

They usually get along but can have spats with one another, so it's entirely possible that it could have been injured, then got some kind of infection. Seen at least two of the remaining plecos. They look fine.

It's been a while since I have posted here. All my tanks have been doing well and just pottering along. Until this week. One of my L199s (Hypancistrus furunculus) looked a bit pale and off two days ago. But hard to see what was really going on because plecos hide, though these guys normally pop...

Yeah, I'm going to take a punt with nets. Might try to herd them into a glass or a tupperware. I hate catching fish. When we bought our mystery corys a couple weeks ago, one managed to get its pectoral spine through the plastic bag, and it was quite stuck. I managed to gently push it free...

I get to have fun with cory moving tomorrow. Ugh. Faffing with our tank set-up. Two years after we bought our initial batch of CW045s, the LFS had them again. We had four, originally, and lost one, so now we have three. We picked up three more today and put them into the tank where Everything...

All Ian said was, "Will need a bit of research to sort this one." That was a couple weeks ago. I was at the LFS today. The owner doesn't think they're agassizis, and she knows her corys. If neither she nor Ian think that's the right species, then it probably isn't. Unfortunately, she has no...

We've been in contact with our LFS owner. She's pretty switched on about corys, so I was surprised that these were misidentified as virginae. She said that virginae had previously been in that tank, and they hadn't gotten around to changing the label (whoops... it's very much a mom-and-pop...

Cool. I moved my Aspidoras spilotus into a tank with a Bolivian ram, cherry barbs, and C. adolphi because I was being inundated by fry. We had far more fish than tank space, and catching them to take them to the LFS was an epic. The ram and barbs keep the population in check. My C. metae and...

A couple weeks ago, I picked up some corys from the LFS labeled as C. virginae. They are definitely not C. virginae. I posted photos on the Corydoras World FB page, and Ian Fuller himself said that he didn't have a clue. Doesn't bode well for anyone else, but thought I'd post on here anyway...

The horses are more than enough work. Fish are not actually dangerous if not trained.