Corydoras Eques Build

[CassCats]

Id like to share my setup for my corydoras eques from setup until currently.

Initially thought I'd want tannins but the plants didn't like it so I eventually scrapped that idea

and this is most recent

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I love those corys. The coloration is amazing.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Oh wow stunning cories in a beautiful set up!

Would love to see how this evolves and develops. What's the tall, trailing plant in the centre? Sorta looks like a clematis climbing up a trellis? I need one of those plants!

 

[Sgooosh]

Oh wow stunning cories in a beautiful set up!

Would love to see how this evolves and develops. What's the tall, trailing plant in the centre? Sorta looks like a clematis climbing up a trellis? I need one of those plants!

ooh i would like to know too! any more details about the tank?

 

[CassCats]

Oh wow stunning cories in a beautiful set up!

Would love to see how this evolves and develops. What's the tall, trailing plant in the centre? Sorta looks like a clematis climbing up a trellis? I need one of those plants!

Hydrocotyle leucocephala, or aka Brazilian pennywort!
All the plants are south american based.

Sag grass, Brazilian pennywort, vallisneria Americana, staurogyne repens, echinodorus quadricostatus, and echinodorus ozelot. Plus a corale up top of water lettuce.
Arguing with the quadricostatus as it was a tissue culture and its still struggling to take hold.

ooh i would like to know too! any more details about the tank?

What details do you want to know?

Tank size: 20 gallon long
Temperature 75F
pH 7 (maintained via Seachem Neutral Regulator)
GH 8
KH 5

Lighting: JC&P full spectrum LED for 6hrs daily

Thrive S liquid fertilizer 3x weekly

1 API root tab for the sword every couple months.

Filters are 2 internals, one has a spray bar.

Stock is 8 corydoras eques and 1 farlowella mariaelenae

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Hydrocotyle leucocephala, or aka Brazilian pennywort!
All the plants are south american based.

Ah that's brilliant, thank you! I wanted some of that before, remember seeing it in someone else's tank and wanting some. @mbsqw1d you have some of this stuff, don't you?

 

[mbsqw1d]

Ah that's brilliant, thank you! I wanted some of that before, remember seeing it in someone else's tank and wanting some. @mbsqw1d you have some of this stuff, don't you?

Yeh, I picked plants from a south american biotope selection and yeh the Brazilian Pennywort was one of them. Its a bit like that Hydrocotyle tripartita 'japan' (that you can push into the substrate and train it to grow along the bottom) but with bigger leaves.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Yeh, I picked plants from a south american biotope selection and yeh the Brazilian Pennywort was one of them. Its a bit like that Hydrocotyle tripartita 'japan' (that you can push into the substrate and train it to grow along the bottom) but with bigger leaves.

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I need some! Have added it to my wish list, cheers! It looks fab in your tank too, looks good both growing tall and bushy/carpeting like that. I bet the otos and pygmies would like sitting on those leaves.

 

[Sgooosh]

Hydrocotyle leucocephala, or aka Brazilian pennywort!
All the plants are south american based.

Sag grass, Brazilian pennywort, vallisneria Americana, staurogyne repens, echinodorus quadricostatus, and echinodorus ozelot. Plus a corale up top of water lettuce.
Arguing with the quadricostatus as it was a tissue culture and its still struggling to take hold.



What details do you want to know?

Tank size: 20 gallon long
Temperature 75F
pH 7 (maintained via Seachem Neutral Regulator)
GH 8
KH 5

Lighting: JC&P full spectrum LED for 6hrs daily

Thrive S liquid fertilizer 3x weekly

1 API root tab for the sword every couple months.

Filters are 2 internals, one has a spray bar.

Stock is 8 corydoras eques and 1 farlowella mariaelenae

nice thanks. i wanted to know the plants and how you fertilised them. i have root tabs too! seems to really help the sword

 

[CassCats]

Coming along well.
Fresh after a water change and filter cleaning

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Where did you get those corys? I hadn’t even heard of them until you posted here.

 

[Wills]

Looks incredible love the biotope detail on the plants very admirable to go to those lengths

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

Id like to share my setup for my corydoras eques from setup until currently.

Initially thought I'd want tannins but the plants didn't like it so I eventually scrapped that idea


and this is most recent
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Gorgeous tank and equally beautiful corys! The tank pictures look like oil paintings, your setup is wonderful.

 

[Sgooosh]

i like the cories! very vibrant. also amazing tank. keep it up!

 

[FishGuest5123]

I want the same cories but they aren’t cheap...$68 each for the ones I spotted!