r/Boraras

there are also white blotches... almost like missing scales... he's also smaller than the others.

it seems that love bloomed in the hospital tank between the only two strawberries in there

this is my first time having fry and it was a big surprise! theyre so unbelievably tiny and hard to get on camera

Hello all! I have a mix of strawberry and pigmy rasboras, and today i noticed this one is very pale. As you can see, some of the others are very vibrant. Is she just a very pale female, or does she look stressed?

I got my first troupe of dwarf rasboras and I love them! I thought they would be shy but they are ALL over the water column. They're so fun to watch.

When I started my tank I seeded it with some copepods, they seem to enjoy hunting them. I wanted to get some daphnea as well so got some pond water and mud in a separate jar weeks ago to culture some but there are for sure predators in that jar because the daphnea population seems to be going down and not up. Maybe ostrocods? I'm probably overthinking this but would love a thriving microfauna population as well for food/ breaking down detrius. Are there any I should avoid adding besides the obvious leeches and planaria? What have you found easy to culture separately for food as I may do this as well?

Anyone able to help sex these galaxy rasboras/CPDs? I’m looking to make an attempt at breeding but having a hard time sexing them. I have a feeling most if not all are male?

Edit: They are a little skinny because my parents have been taking care of them and aren’t the best at remembering to feed every day. I’m making an effort to fatten them up while I’m home /collegestudent

Can't believe these guys. They're all pushing 1.25 in..The males are red as my chilis and the females are super chonky. Might have to go back and buy the others lol.

Sorry my phone cam sucks 😅

The fish shop said they were young chilli rasboras but idk. I have about 13 of them in this tank

It’s a 36litre/9gallon 51x26x31 tank with blue diamond and blue velvet neocaridina shrimp and a nerite snail.

These were advertized as chilis but the more I look at them the more I'm starting to believe that they're mislabeled least rasboras. Nbd to me, but I am having my suspicions

They won't stop moving😭 but the front of the stomach seems to bulge a bit

7.2 ph, 0 ammonia- 0 nitrites - 5 nitrates, planted 105L

I feed 6mg daily fasting on Sunday and giving live food on Saturday but maybe I should do the fluval bug bites every other day instead?

I'm wondering if my boy Ricky is actually a lady about to give birth or if I fed him a bit too much. Attached is an attempt at a screenshot to show the belly and a full shot of my planted tank. I use a liquid testing kit and all numbers are normal. Emerald Eye rasboras! Thanks for your help!

I started with 4 least rasboras in a flex 9. They were fussy eaters but I got them going and they happily explored the tank. Well, I got 4 more and left them in the care of my spouse bc I had a family emergency out of town. I came back to 3 fish...or so I thought! Today, weeks later, I saw all 8 of them hiding in the back of the tank. They're spending most of their time in a cave feature under some driftwood. I want them to feel more comfortable and explore the tank like the first 4 were doing. They are much easier to monitor and feed if they come out. Do you see anything obvious about the tank here? Too bright? Not enough plants?

Important parts:

61cm (2') x 31cm (1') x 40cm (16") tall tank

pH 5.5

GH and KH basically 0

Filtration: 1 old sponge filter

Current amount of rasboras: 16

Tank mates: cherry shrimp, snails, common otocinclus, giant otocinclus.

Feeding: micro fish food (forgot the brand ATM), microorganisms, baby brine shrimp and homemade herbivore/algivore wafers

Backstory:

I initially set this tank up 1 year ago (+1 year dry start to get the moss growing just right) intending for it to be a high tech cherry shrimp tank with some additional otocinclus and a few chili rasboras, but things got in the way, high tech wasn't my thing, the otocinclus were in terrible shape and when they finally got back to good shape they started breeding, so I postponed the chili rasboras for about a year, last week my LFS received 20 strawberry rasboras, so I bought 10 to try them out (rookie mistake, bought them the same day they arrived), liked them a lot and went back the day before yesterday for the remaining 10, they only had 6 left, so my group is currently at 16 fish. I have fallen in love with them and would love to get more, but first I would like to know from people with more experience how many could be kept comfortably in my tank (I've read the suggested care guide) and any advice is welcome.

Only maintenance the tank gets is the occasional 20-30% water change and rarely a bottom syphoning (when the mulm gets over an inch in depth), this seems to work out great for the current inhabitants and the tank is flooding with microorganisms that I've seen the rasboras occasionally snack on. Sometimes I add a bunch of dry leaves after a water change and let them disappear while the tannins get removed over the course of months by water changes, so the tank has months of being blackwater and months of being clear water.