r/Boraras

I know the availability of fish changes with the tides (lol) but I'm wondering if there's something larger going on that someone knows about. I've been wanting to add about 15 more to my shoal (currently only 5) but it's been about a half year now where no local shop carries them. I'm hesitant to ship the fish, mostly for the cost, but it's starting to look more and more enticing.

If you have some and willing to sell, please let me know. All the online vendors seem to be sold out and I cannot find any at my LFS in Charlotte, NC.

Hello everyone! It's been about three weeks since I transferred my school of Dwarf Emerald Galaxies to a larger tank, and kept the smaller one going with shrimp and snails. I checked this morning and there are at least 3 small fry that I can see swimming around. I had no idea the conditions were good enough to see breeding in there.
But now they are separated and I have no idea what to do!
Is there something I can feed these babies? Do I try to get them into the larger tank with the school or will they risk getting eaten? This is my first time with rasboras and a tank at all since childhood so not sure how to do about this.

Hi all, I peeked through the rules, but please let me know if there's anything else I need to add. TW - fish death/photo of deceased fish.

After months cycling my UNS 45T (~12 gallon tank), checking parameters, learning how to run CO2, etc, my planted tank was finally ready for inhabitants. I've had my eye on Chili Rasboras for ages, however, they're apparently not shipping well, so I went with a shoal of 13 Strawberry Rasboras. Floated their bag for 15 minutes, drip acclimated for an additional 50 minutes. They seem to love the tank.

EXCEPT!

I have no clue how this is happening because the flow coming out of my filter outflow pipe is fairly powerful (running a Oase Filtosmart 100 Thermo), but they are somehow swimming against that current and WEDGING THEMSELVES IN THE OUTFLOW PIPE/BAFFLER. I included a picture of one of them (deceased unfortunately) because there's just no other way to describe it. They're trapping themselves in the Aquario Neo Reliever filter outflow. So far, two have died this way so we're down to 11 in the shoal now. It's been less than 24 hours!

What do I even do? I don't want to have to re-do my pipes/etc, but I also don't want the fish bodies to keep piling up...?

How are they even managing this

I was originally planning on stocking my 29g with least rasboras, which I want to plant heavily. But I've found out they prefer open water. So, I'm considering getting chili rasboras instead. I also want to breed the fish, so will chilis work well? I have a shrimp colony too, and I don't want too many of them to be eaten.

I need to decide on strawberry or least/exclamation point rasboras for my 29g. I plan to keep the tank heavily planted, with a more open front. I have a colony of shrimp, and want to impact their breeding as little as possible as well. I also want to breed the rasboras at some point, and I have a ten gallon tank I can use for that. I have fairly hard tap water(gh 10-12), but can get RO water pretty easily. I plan to feed them live brine shrimp, live vinegar eels, and pellet food for the most part. Which rasbora would be better? I've narrowed it down to strawberries or exclamation points, but I think phoenixes might work too. Feedback would be appreciated.

I have a school of 16 chili rasboras in a 29 gallon with kuhli loaches, a honey gourami, cpds, cories, neocardina shrimp, and a few leftover harlequin tetras. I haven't added new stock since March, added a few tissue culture plants last weekend. I have one chili with some strange slime buildup on one side and the outer margins of the caudal fin. It could be fuzz, but it looks more like slime coat sloughing off. I was able to opportunistically catch it by being very sneaky while culling my duller neos and have it in a cup currently. I have a 2 gallon set up that I use as holding for neos before I sell them, but my ideal cure here would be an aquarium salt bath and immediate return to tank. This doesn't look like any of the typical diseases I've dealt with before (ich and columnaris) and I first noticed this fish over a week ago.nitbhasnt been getting better and has been out and behaving normally, but is not improving either. I could keep it separated in the 2 gallon, but thought the stress of being solo might do it in. Has anyone had success with Aquarium Salt baths and micro rasboras? I know they are super sensitive to salts so was hesitant. I did 1.2 grams in a cup of tank water. So far I haven't been brave enough to add it in there.

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Temps at 78F

pH 7.4

0/0ppm ammonia and nitrites

30ppm nitrates (dosing for plants)

Haven't measured KH or GH in a while, but KH usually sits between 2 and 3 with GH around 7

No new products or foods recently.

Question in title.