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Ordered fish for the 45 for arrival on Friday. Yay!

Wetspot?
What did you decide on?

 

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It's a surprise. You'll have to wait until Friday!

Oh now thats just cruel

 

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Fish arrived from The Wet Spot without drama.

Rasbora rubrodorsalis - cherry spot Rasbora x 11
Boraras brigittae - chili Rasbora x 23
Kryptopterus vitreolus - Asian glass catfish x 10
Sundadanio goblinus - neon blue Rasbora x 25
Otocinclus cocama - zebra Oto x 3
Caridina multidentata - Amano shrimp x 10

Farlowella vittata - twig catfish x 6

All fish I have not kept before. Most of the fish from Thailand except the chili Rasboras from Borneo and the Otos obviously. I just like having Otos in all my tanks no matter what region the rest of the fish represent. The Farlowella are for my 100 gallon but I am quarantining them in this tank with the other new fish.

Also got 4 tiny Crossocheilus oblongus - Siamese algae eaters for my 46 gallon but those I put directly in that tank.

Right now all the little rasboras are mostly swimming around in one huge school together. So cool. The cherry spots about 3 times bigger than the other two species. It will be interesting seeing how the different fish interact with each other over the long term.

Glad all came healthy! :smile2:

Sounds like a great group of fish. Im intrigued because the only Rasboras Ive ever kept are Kubotai ( which I have now), so will be interesting to see how the groups interact in time.
I love the Zebra Otos- have 2. Really difficult to acclimate to the aquarium; but, finally successful with last shipment got from Wetspot. Only one died of 3.

 

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Day 87! I've lost a couple of glass cats but everyone else still looking OK. Realized the other day I am out of CO2 on this tank but was able to go the next day and swap out the tank so I don't think it will set anything back too much. Glad I have a drop checker though because I wouldn't have thought to look.

45 gallon planted aquarium Day 87 by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr

And continuing the thread of two tanks for the price of one journal the 46 bowfront next door is looking so good. Keeping up with the fight against BBA. This photo really doesn't do the plants in this tank justice. The Crypts are so beautiful. I'll have to try to get photos with my better camera or maybe shoot some video to see if I can get some better shots.

46 gallon bowfront by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr

And another bonus for this thread something not tank related but plant related. I mounted my two new staghorn ferns in a break in the rainy weather here the other day (Platycerium grande on the left and Platycerium superbum on the right). Once I renovate this outdoor courtyard and make a really nice shade garden here these two ferns will be mounted on fence of the inner courtyard. I've always wanted these plants so it was nice that a local nursery got some good specimens and I found a good mail order company to buy the mounting boards from.

Platycerium grande left. Platycerium superbum right. by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr

Gorgeous all around-- those Staghorn ferns are spectacular!

 

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Almost forgot I moved my single Corydoras semiaquilus to my 46 bowfront. He was harassing the C. duplicareus and C. eques pretty regularly and stressing them out. He killed all the others of his own species and even though he has been peaceful in the big Corydoras tank for over a year and a half I didn't want to risk him killing any of the peaceful Corydoras in the tank. At the worst he would actually kill them but I was also afraid he would just stress them and make them sick. Lineage one Corydoras are actually very aggressive but normally only with conspecifics. I was surprised he went after lineage 7 and 9 fish and not the Scleromystax which are more similar to him in appearance.

I thought he would be a nightmare to catch but he pretty much just let me scoop him up. So now he lives with no other Corydoras in the tank with the keyhole cichlids. I did find a dead kuhli loach the next day but I very much doubt that was related. He is too big to get into the piece of wood that they live in.

Moved Corydoras semiaquilus by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr

Wow! Thats the first time Ive heard of an aggressive corydoras species. But, then again, I have only kept about 6 different species- not near as many as you have.

Your tanks are filling in beautifully. Did you use pool filter sand for substrate?-- it looks really nice. Like an authentic river sand.

 

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Oh okay! Im going to try that La Plata sand next time set up an aquarium-- I really like the look of it.
Ive used the Buceplant sand in my 5.4 gallon shrimp tank. But, I like the look of the La Plata even better.