Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

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I think I've been really lucky with my 2 mystery gouramis and I think I might have a pair. The colours in the largest one has really intensified and he displays at the smaller one when it passes him. I'm not sure if its because the tiddler is a female or another male, I guess in a few weeks when it grows a bit (if it gets any bigger) then I'll know.

The big ones fins are rainbow coloured, even the long ones at the front (what the heck do you call those?) and they look amazing when he flares. I wish I could get a photo to show you all, not least because I still haven't identified the species, he'll still amazingly camera shy.

Ah thankee Sue

I must confess I do waggle my fingers at them, the big one is particularly fascinated. He kind of hovers and oggles while I waggle 

You obviously didnt try hard enough Colin 

I've been having a problem with pest snails in my shrimpery after having the not so genius idea of letting them breed in there to feed the puffers. The little blighters have been chowing down on my frogbit which has been annoying. I couldn't put assassins in there because of the MTS so I've been picking them out by hand and it seems to be working. I've got into the habit of checking the underside of the frogbit and picking off the tiddlers I find there. Its actually quite relaxing, much to my surprise today the underside of the frogbit is covered with what can only be pygmy cory eggs! So who knows, as I don't have any other fish in there and pygmys apparently don't eat their eggs or fry, I might end up with some babies. 

We went to another garden centre this afternoon, the one with the aquatics department where I got my sand from. They've stopped selling it  All they had were small bags of Aqua One gravel and Unipac silver sand.

So when we got back I spent an hour washing the sand I removed from the 180 litre.

Well the pale patch must have been a bacterial infection as with eSHa 2000 added it's now a third of the size it was...the patch not the fish.

Also had a peek in the shrimpery and the pygmy cory egg attached to the wall of the tank actually has something teeny wiggling around in it. It will be absolutely tiny if it does successfully hatch!

Baby pygmy cory, it probably doesn't get much smaller than that. So cute. 

I have "lost" all my peppered cory that hatched (stern look towards the female v. platy).
Eggs still appearing on a regular basis, but assuming that they will go the same way, if not eaten by the cory first.

still waiting on my panda eggs to hatch. only 3 left now out of 8.
best of luck with the pygmy cory eggs!

I'd have thought that the cory will just rummage between the particles, but the more experienced keepers will have a better idea.