These guys are pretty rare in the hobby! Threadfin rainbowfish or Iriatherina werneri.
The males will square off like this to establish dominance. The presence of females increases their sparring/brightness of display colors, but mine do it even without.
I hope I’ll be able to find some females someday and may potentially try breeding them simply so others can enjoy this underrated nano rainbowfish.
I finally bit the bullet and completely tore down my infested tank following instructions I found here. froze the substrate for several days, boiled every drop of water, used the reverse aspiration method on the plants, sun-dried or froze several pieces of equipment.
Yet this morning I still found a teeny tiny baby in with my rescued plants bin. I actually reverse-aspirated the plants twice after I discovered more the first time, and was extra careful to ensure nothing floated up and the seltzer water didn't loose any bubbles. I don't think my plants would take a round 3 so I'm stuck with being extra attentive in monitoring to squish the survivors.
Please tell me this ends soon. I want to start redoing this tank but I fear their return.
I’m doing some tank pruning and have
~12 bulbs of jungle val
~ 12 stems of rotala orange juice
~ a handful or two of red root floaters
all are great low tech plants that grow well without co2 and without high lighting. it’s a great starter package to anyone looking for some low fuss plants (they do require substrate, excluding the floaters). please note these will come with free pink ramshorns and maybe a little thread algae.
price is for bulk. separation is possible but I will increase price per unit depending on qty requested. I am willing to ship, though that will be additional cost.
been having so many issues with my tanks lately after keeping them now 5 years
it’s the first day in a while I felt like I could look into one of my little worlds and feel like everything was okay. this one has been running about 2 and a half years now. it’s due soon for some pruning
I’m preparing to do a massive tear down of my first tank which no longer seems to support vertebral life / has become infested with New Zealand mud snails 🫣
I was curious if anyone had some experience with amanos outcompeting their corys..
For context I've kept corys for about 4 years now. I had a batch of fish I carefully quarantined up for a month then added to an established tank (2+ years old) about 6-8 months ago. I've been gradually loosing corys one by one & am at about half of what I started with. They just seem to waste away. I've tried treating with Expel-P before (and am currently starting a longer course just in case its a parasite with a long life cycle), but it doesn't seem to help much.
Tank is 22 G, fully planted. Mix of venezuelan, peppered, and panda corys. Some are quite chonky, others aren't (and to me seem to have grown very slowly)... it seems some just aren't very boisterous feeders. A few weeks ago one of my old ammonia tests was giving me false-positives so I cut feeding for a week to "get it under control" - which only seemed to hasten the #s I lost.
I have about 3 amanos in that tank and I've seen them steal pellets. I was feeding some bigger ones, so I was adding about 4-5 pellets in the tank every other day. In light of that I started feeding more often & "tinier food" to see if I can get my weaker feeders to bulk up. I'm also thinking of getting a blackworm culture going.. just to get these guys nice and plump. Presently I feed them freeze-dried tubifex, hikari nano-bites, bug bites for bottom feeders, crab cuisine, the occasional frozen brine shrimp/blood worms.
For context.. tank has a pH of 7.6, and last I measured ammonia of 0, nitrite of 0, nitrates around 20 ppm. I used to change the tank water maybe every month or so (plants do a good job keeping everything clean) but have shifted to weekly water changes just to rule out issues. Tank flow dynamics are very good in that tank so I don't have any mulm build-up. Tank mates include 3 free-loading amanos, 4 CPDs, and neocaridina shrimp.