Eggy's fish and tanks

[Eggheadfish]

No worries! Helodes and berdmorei look very similar.
I pick up the oddballs when I find them and I would love to keep the beauforti but 1) it's hard to get them in appropriate groups and 2) I don't have a good tank space for them based on the behavior I'm seeing now. Nothing horrible. I could put him in my 55 but I don't want to disturb the farlowellas. I think he would work great with my cryptoheros but then I would have to relocate 27 cory cats to somewhere haha. Maybe I'll just get another tank!

[sinibotia]

Maybe I'll trade you my aborichthys sp. for your beauforti... although I dunno if that would be such a good swap for my 10 gallon with a betta where the aborichthys is

I know what you mean with getting groups for the rare loaches. Never had more than one sinibotia which are my forever favorite rare loach. I would kill a blood relative for a group of them!

[Eggheadfish]

well I'll keep my eyes peeled

I take a lot of fish photos, but I don't post a lot of full tank shots - mostly because my fish are way prettier than my tanks :P
In any case, here they are. My "office" holds:
40 high:

20g shelldweller growout and 5 g misc fry & shrimp:

30 breeder cory tank and 40 breeder cory/cutteri (CRAZY tannins right now):

35 hex and 10g multi tank:

90g tanganyikan tank (sorry for all the glare):

And then the 15g kitchen tank, 55g and 15g in the living room:



I never finish a tank before I start a new one...so they're all in various stages of work in progress

[Eggheadfish]

-6 gold pristella tetras and -5 red phantom tetras. Gave them to a club member in exchange for an IOU on apisto fry mwahaha.

[Gillie]

Originally Posted by Eggheadfish

-6 gold pristella tetras and -5 red phantom tetras. Gave them to a club member in exchange for an IOU on apisto fry mwahaha.

Which species?

[Eggheadfish]

Mcmasteri I think. We are always trading stuff so may change my mind. I keep trying to talk him into giving me his group of c. Oiapoquensis. He's more of a Malawi and big cat and loach guy. He got me another red hook but I didn't take it...yet. My guys are so old I don't want to end up with one.

[Brookster123]

Macs are awesome!

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[Eggheadfish]

Heck ya! He has agassizii too but I think he lost the female

[Eggheadfish]

Photos working wooh!

[Eggheadfish]

Some more pics

[Eggheadfish]

And a few more

Telling secrets

[TheresaM]

Very nice pics!

You mentioned your camera...are you like most of us who get a few good shots for every big bunch you take or are you just lucky? Seriously, I have a Nikon D7000 that I absolutely love but I'm only satisfied with 1 or 2 out of every pics, as least as far as fish are concerned

[Fresh2o]

Fixed. Wonderful photos as always! 📷


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[Brookster123]

Nice pics!! Have any ozelot sword runners?

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[Eggheadfish]

Theresa - I took 97 photos last night and those were the good few. I love the camera but I'm still learning what all the settings do
Brooks - no but when they appear I can let you know!!

[Eggheadfish]

HAHAHAHA thanks fresh

[Eggheadfish]

Three of my c. Rabauti are engaged in some uncommonly aggressive chasing. I can only hope eggs may follow.
For any cory cat people who haven't kept them, they're by far my favorites. Their movements are much more purposeful and they utilize a lot more tank space than others I've kept. Plus their colors are absolutely stunning on a good diet.
I've only seen wild caught adults available so I'm really hoping to tank raise some.
I should have rethought using the office as a fish room. I am getting nothing accomplished on this case study

[Eggheadfish]

YAY!
No cory eggs but it didn't take long for the cutteri to get to work...

[Eggheadfish]

Thx Fresh!

I actually put them in the 40b till I figure out my plant plan

[Eggheadfish]

Cutteri eggs have hatched and mom relocated them to another sand pit. She terrorized one of my small cories to death too but it was a cull anyway...squashed skull so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.