I will post but a short summation now, and finish this later because I just got back from a 3 hour trip to walmart supercenter after being awake and doing stuff since 6am, it is almost 3am now.
I have a 90 gallon aquarium I was given by someone that wanted it gone so he could work on his car in his garage, I am 36 year old x computer tech and pet lover now disabled. When I was a teenager I had several 10 gallon and a 40 gallon aquarium and my favorite fish of all the ones I kept was a common pleco I was given by my older sister who had no clue how to care for fish. Keep in mind my age, the net nor information was not as easy to come by back then. I loved that pleco and took care of it for years until it jumped out and died... I had a rough time before getting on disability for my problems and just stablized lately and got this aquarium.
Now that I have it, about a year and a half ago that is, I put some of my favorite fishes into it... I started with 6 cherry barbs, then as the tank cycled I added 7 corydoras - 2-3 at a time... green, only one is albino. 6 neon tetras, two pearl spotted bristlenose pleco, 16 cardinal tetras, 2 black loach, 5 female bettas, and an accidental population of tiny pest snails of some sort. This was not the order I added them.
The plecos turned out to be male and female and they had a batch of eggs. I had counted 50 fry at one time, at least 13 have survived. They had hatched on new year's day. Since then they have had 3 more batches of eggs which I cleaned out within a day of noticing. The 13 are of varying sizes, but they are most definitely some sort of defects, I think the parents were from the same batch of eggs... that and this being their first batch would explain their pygmy style offspring. The remaining ones are all quite healthy looking just very small, 1 to 2 inches. They have barely grown in the last several months, so I think they may actually be pygmy.
The tank is filtered with a fluval 405 which is cleaned with tapwater (the ceramic nodules are not cleaned) every 6 months, I have standard playground sand in them rinsed until it was clear, I also have 4 pieces of driftwood from various locations properly treated, and several sedimentary rocks along with a few plants. I feed the plecos a slice of cucumber and two algae tabs daily, along with dropping a generous amount of flakes in for everyone twice a day, when the light goes on and off both. The cories have spawned many times but the eggs never survive, I am going tobreed them in a 10 gallon when I want some offspring.
I have pics but im exhausted and I also am moving webhosts - hostgator has proven to be incredibly incompetent to fix a simple issue with their shared server.
gnight all see you again soon, Ill update and edit the thread when im not exhausted.
I have a 90 gallon aquarium I was given by someone that wanted it gone so he could work on his car in his garage, I am 36 year old x computer tech and pet lover now disabled. When I was a teenager I had several 10 gallon and a 40 gallon aquarium and my favorite fish of all the ones I kept was a common pleco I was given by my older sister who had no clue how to care for fish. Keep in mind my age, the net nor information was not as easy to come by back then. I loved that pleco and took care of it for years until it jumped out and died... I had a rough time before getting on disability for my problems and just stablized lately and got this aquarium.
Now that I have it, about a year and a half ago that is, I put some of my favorite fishes into it... I started with 6 cherry barbs, then as the tank cycled I added 7 corydoras - 2-3 at a time... green, only one is albino. 6 neon tetras, two pearl spotted bristlenose pleco, 16 cardinal tetras, 2 black loach, 5 female bettas, and an accidental population of tiny pest snails of some sort. This was not the order I added them.
The plecos turned out to be male and female and they had a batch of eggs. I had counted 50 fry at one time, at least 13 have survived. They had hatched on new year's day. Since then they have had 3 more batches of eggs which I cleaned out within a day of noticing. The 13 are of varying sizes, but they are most definitely some sort of defects, I think the parents were from the same batch of eggs... that and this being their first batch would explain their pygmy style offspring. The remaining ones are all quite healthy looking just very small, 1 to 2 inches. They have barely grown in the last several months, so I think they may actually be pygmy.
The tank is filtered with a fluval 405 which is cleaned with tapwater (the ceramic nodules are not cleaned) every 6 months, I have standard playground sand in them rinsed until it was clear, I also have 4 pieces of driftwood from various locations properly treated, and several sedimentary rocks along with a few plants. I feed the plecos a slice of cucumber and two algae tabs daily, along with dropping a generous amount of flakes in for everyone twice a day, when the light goes on and off both. The cories have spawned many times but the eggs never survive, I am going tobreed them in a 10 gallon when I want some offspring.
I have pics but im exhausted and I also am moving webhosts - hostgator has proven to be incredibly incompetent to fix a simple issue with their shared server.
gnight all see you again soon, Ill update and edit the thread when im not exhausted.
