Hello!

[Corydoras]

I'm Xiangquan and I'm from Singapore. My areas of interest about fish-keeping are corydoras, tetras and aquascaping. Hope to learn more about fish-keeping from you guys here!!

[WckedMidas]

:welcome: :newbie:

[piranha45]

Nice to meet you! keep any exodons? Hope your post count passes 2 reeeeal fast, this site loves postcounts! :D

[iheartfishies]

:welcome:

What's your favorite type of corydora?!?!


Don't mind the post comment.
He has major issues.

[piranha45]

what nerve! how degrading.

[Corydoras]

My favorite corydoras are Corydoras Trilineatus, Corydoras Haraldschultzi. It is a pity that Singapore does not import many varieties of corydoras. Those common ones are Corydoras Aeneus and Corydoras Paleatus. Occaisonally, there are Corydoras Panda and Cory doras Trilineatus. Recently, there have been an increase in the supply of Corydoras Haraldschultzi. I'm not sure whether we have farms that bred them.

[Corydoras]

Oh, you mean the Exodon Paradoxus or the 'buck-toothed tetras'? I don't keep them. I saw some of them on sale here in Singapore. They are pretty neat. If I'm not wrong, they are notorious for ripping scales of other fish right?

I'm trying to get myself oriented here...:P Glad to know so many people here too.

[piranha45]

so you just stick with the nice tetras eh? :)

how many neons/cardinals you got?

how many tetra species have you bred?

[Corydoras]

Currently I have 40+ cardinal tetras, 5 Black Neons, 1 Rummynose (used to have 20+) and 14 + corydoras in a planted tank. I have not successfully bred any tetras yet. But I have successfully bred Bettas. I had so many that I have to give away. Anyway, I'm not keeping bettas anymore because they are not as lasting as the cardinals.

I have kept Rams before and they spawned. However, non of the eggs survived.

[piranha45]

you looking into breeding any tetra species?

[guppy]

love the panda and skunk corys welcome

[Corydoras]

Yupz. I tried to breed the cardinals before but I failed. There must be some conditions that might have gone wrong or I have yet to discover the trigger. Nevertheless, I have stopped trying now and just maintain that 4-foot tank as it is. My cardinals are tamed. Whenever I stand near to the tank, they will swim closer instead of swimming away. I have been keeping them for at least 3 years. I used to have 50 until one day they contracted ich. It is disastrous to contract ich. They were hit at least twice and I lost quite a lot of them. I have learned how to counter such calamity. I lost a few Yamato shrimps too. :(

[piranha45]

what was your method for countering ich?

[Corydoras]

I will drain away four fifths of the water from my tank. Then I apply Methlyene Blue and appropriate aeration. One thing to take note is that you must remove any invertebrates. For the first time, I did not remove my Yamato shrimps and many of them were 'stained' by the medicine and were struggling on the gravel floor. I lost a few of those shrimps. Each shrimp costs about US$0.62.

The miracle thing was the ich was removed in less than 2 days. Having noted that every fish was rid of the disease, I will add new water. I have succeeded for 2 times.

[guppy]

Yupz. I tried to breed the cardinals before but I failed. There must be some conditions that might have gone wrong or I have yet to discover the trigger. Nevertheless, I have stopped trying now and just maintain that 4-foot tank as it is. My cardinals are tamed. Whenever I stand near to the tank, they will swim closer instead of swimming away. I have been keeping them for at least 3 years. I used to have 50 until one day they contracted ich. It is disastrous to contract ich. They were hit at least twice and I lost quite a lot of them. I have learned how to counter such calamity. I lost a few Yamato shrimps too. :(
try the method for neons listeed in Axelrods, trigger is dropping water level with good food and then suddenly raising waterlevel,slightly acidifing water and dropping hardness. I just put my kiddy pool out in the rain. can you tell us about stuff in markets sold as food we pay premium for here? Thailand has/hads stuff cheap you would pay bucu for. Flagstaff mudskippers were like a$ a lb.

[dmarinko]

welcome to the MFK community!!!!

[Peanut_Power]

Come well!! Yay!! Corys are pimp! !