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Hi all, HAPPY 4TH. Nice birdie Tina.
Talking about cories, I have about 40 in my tank and they never breed(the water stays to warm). When I had half of them in my old 120 inthewall they would breed all the time . Temperature has everything to do with them breeding. The 120 was set up with a chiller so I could keep it cooler . When I would do water changes they would spawn. I also had a bunch in my old 30, the tank was under an ac vent and they spawned every week. I tried to grow out several hundred but went away for a week and lost them.
I have 10-15 that were born in my old 120 that hid in thick chainswords and survived .


Oh , I got my new FX5 installed yesterday !!!!! :)
 
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Morning all!

Mark-I guess that's why my cories wont bread. The tank they are in stays at about 80 degrees. Woo-hoo on the FX5!

cam-I have always said I would own a beemer someday!lol
 
the tank the cories bred in is at a constant 80F. i guess they are the two that go against what is normal for cory breeding, lol.
 
BettaFishMommy said:
the tank the cories bred in is at a constant 80F. i guess they are the two that go against what is normal for cory breeding, lol.
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80 is a good temp but usually a large water change will set them off if ya know what a mean:evil_lol:
 
i did some research and yes, the consensus is that a large water change with a bit cooler water will induce them to lay eggs. i have not done a water change in this tank since i brought them home. the only change of water was on wednesday when they went from their lfs water in the bag to the water in the tank, so i guess that was enough to get them in the mood, lol.

almost 24 hours after eggs laid and the parents havn't eaten them all! woot! off to get a breeder net today, don't want my first chance at being a finkid grandma to be all for naught!
 
when i do wc on my 20 long sometimes ill put a cupful of ice in the hob and everybody gets all exited. sometimes i even see clear little eggs on the glass so it must be working
 
I added , well actuall it was already there , I have a coralife double 96 watt pc that I managed to squeeze in the back of my tank a few weeks ago. I was only able to use 1- 96 though because of space restrictions. I removed the front lids on my tank and was able to shift everything towards the front and now have the 2'nd 96 in use . I finally have 422 watts :) I've been trying to get the center of the substrate filled in with chainsword the last few weeks adding root tabs and excel and doubling the fert routine.Looks like it's really paying off :) I also removed the hydrilla that I tried , the stuff just grew to fast and was long and stringy, having to trim every couple days :(

I will get some pics soon for you guys .
 
You can see my floatvalve here also , tubing running through the wall , makes water changes a breeze . And I also finished with the mosquito growout project, got about 60 females and 10-15 males . Tank is LIVELY :)

I'm going to go over to the gallery and post more pics there .

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with your float valve do you leave the water on so your tank is always full?
I only ask this because i loose a lot of water every week due to evaporation.
if so how do you know how much conditioner to use?
i have been thinking about doing this for a long time but not knowing how much conditioner to add has always worried me
 
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