I think that tank is an overkill for those medakas you should make a tank that's viewed from the top to enjoy its markings and patterns, or use bustub like many medaka keepers lol
Yea mate, got two. I have kept all the plants in those videos in low tech tanks without issue and they help keep nitrates in check. Stem Plants - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FJ7BDAKkhRs.html Floating Plants - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vKTNC8LLD5I.html
Either dark blues to get a colony of them started or move my red bloody mary shrimp into it. I think the bloody mary will look better against the colors in there to be honest.
Honestly mate, I would recommend it to anyone in the hobby. Its been so much fun, even just watching them spar with each other while I cooked was entertaining :)
Well worth it if you want some rice fish as the outlets charge around £9 each for them, which gets expensive when you need a group. Plus you get the satisfaction of raising them yourself.
I kept 4 (6 initially, 2 died not long after introduction) of these for the past 6 months. Back then, I don't know much about them. I just put them in my heavily planted tank with little open field. A couple weeks ago, I noticed that they seem to become less active, but there's no sign of disease or malnutrition or something like that. Then one day, one of them died. It seems to greatly stress the others, because after that, the remaining ones stopped eating, and died too, one after the other. Is it possible for these fish to die because of lack of foraging space? I can't think much else. The fact that they managed to live for 6 months with no issues whatsoever should rule out my water parameter as the culprit. Likewise, if there are some sort of contamination at the bottom, then why my hundreds of shrimps that live alongside them are completely fine? It's quite baffling.
If you fed them and didn't eat the food then I don't think they would die because of not enough grazing space. They do need the open grazing space as well as plants, etc. but I think they would have at least tried to forage. As long as you had no ammonia, nitrite you know that wasn't a problem, a decent PH. Maybe they came with disease; when fish stop eating it's a sign of so many different diseases. it's sometimes so hard to figure out fish deaths...to say the least. This, especially with no visible signs. Corys are usually a care free fish to keep though. Don't give up on them!!
Did they have any signs of tumors on them? One of my friend lost three in a couple of months after having them in his tank for over a year but you could see tumors forming on them. Other than that, I can't think of anything, I doubt its a water parameter issue as I would expect the shrimp to have issued before the corydoras.
I have a mulberry tree I planted in my backyard that I harvest leaves from for my shrimp every year. Have you tried kale leaves? I boiled some kale I grew this summer and my shrimp went nuts on it. It’s their new favorite leaf. They also went crazy on some sweet potato leaves I harvested from the garden this year. I’m going to try bamboo next.
@@GlassBoxDiariesAwesome! I boil mine for 12 minutes and they can chow down on it as soon as it hits the tank. It’s supposed to have a solid amount of calcium too!
No mate, the eggs can hatch in freshwater but the babies won't make it unless they have a certain salinity level. I really don't know much about breeding Amanos though to be honest.
Mine are constantly breeding to be fair, I'm curious if their eggs could get through my pre-filter sponge now, I will check for fry next time I deep clean the filter :)
I thoroughly enjoy my Peppered Corys. Although I always worry whether they're getting their fair share of food because my Neon tetras are just so ravenous. With one tetra in particular being an absolute glutton.
Do you have a video explaining cycling a new tank for beginners, like a step by step? I have a new 10 gallon aquarium and I have not set it up yet because I am afraid of doing something wrong. Your videos are very thorough and explain things very well. I want to have a planted all male endler tank.
I don't mate but its on my list of things to do, I just need a tank that I'm cycling from scratch as my recent takes have all used aged media so it changes the method. I basically use the "Dark Start Cycling Method" not so if you Google that there should be some stuff explaining it.
i had two tanks that were made in the same day and have the exact same water parameters. shirmp still die because of the how different the water mixture or as they say the waster mixture molecular. shrimp are SOO sensitive specially Caridina shrimp
@@GlassBoxDiaries you have such a beautiful tank bro keep up the good work and I’m having trouble with my cherry shrimp and my ghost shrimp , the Petsmart employe told me they could breed but I don’t know how to make them breed so if you have any suggestions please let me know
Throw some daphnia and different microfaona. Best enrichment you could ever get. My betta only gets food occasionally but he eats primarily just different microfaona that he has to hunt 😊
I love your content, man! I just set up a 3 gallon dirted vase for a blue dream colony and I am attempting a no filter dirted 1 gallon pickle jar. I was planning to try S. Repens for the foreground carpet in the 1 gallon jar. Based on your video, I’m thinking it will be too large for that tiny jar. Do you have any recommendations for a low tech carpeting plant for a tiny jar? Maybe dwarf Sagittaria?
Cheers mate :), Dward Sag can get suprisingly big in certain lighting conditions, look into Helanthium tenellum or littorella uniflora both could work. I would lean more toward littorella uniflora as its a proven cold water plant native to most of Northern Europe and it stays smaller than Helanthium tenellum.
@@Ferax83 Cheers mate, just build out another jar so waiting for the plants to grow in then I will publish a setup video for it next month :). The older one is over 6 months old now and there's two buried shrimp in it so there's a lot more babies on the way.
Planning to get 4 different 10 gallon fish tanks with 4 different types of beta: long fin male, short fin male, standard female, young female and keeping a divider to seperate them from the shrimp and see which ones fail and which ones succeed. I am thinking of going with 4 different colors rili shrimp however. Not sure if the results will be consistent but the shrimp will have a place seperate from the betta that they can escape to
Highly recommend it mate, my shrimp love it. If I could find more reliable information on its nutritional value I would feed it more than once per week.
Where I live it's extremely common to find long fin Bettas whereas I much prefer the plakat/natural version so I solved my little conundrum by purchasing a female ghost Betta. She's gorgeous but ghosts are supposedly the strain which is (or was?) used to produce fighting Bettas in Thailand and although females have the reputation of being more laid-back, mine certainly isn't! 😅 I had her with a school of chilli rasboras and she would chase them away when they'd come too close to her food pellets (bug bites) so I always thought one day she would hurt/kill one of them 😢 The real downside is she ate over half of my neocaridinas shrimps, including a grained female right in front of my eyes! I had to quickly come up with plan B so went online and found via an app locals who would sell a very decent second hand nano tank and light. A spare sponge filter and heater were of course added and she now has her own tank. I'm still in the process of ordering nice epiphyte plants to stick to the nice mangrove root I also added as deco. She's boisterous for sure but I like her as much as my other fish 😊
Thanks for sharing mate :) One of my females was the most aggressive betta I have ever had by far too. She tried to eat everything she could so ended up having to catch the neocaridina shrimp and put them into a different tank to save them.
@@GlassBoxDiaries Only one of my tanks doesn't have shrimps in it but that's my killies tank (and they would eat shrimps for breakfast, lunch and dinner!) so unless I'd mix blue dreams and red cherries, the only viable option was to give her her own tank. She was in a 40 liters but now has to make do with a 25 liters. It's not really what I had originally in mind but it's best for everyone under the circumstances.
Hi, it's a great idea indeed and I used to do that too but I stopped when I realised mine (and yours probably as well) keeps searching for food nonstop simply because that's what they do in nature. As for the cognitive stimuli, knowing the size of her eyes is the size of her brain, I sincerely doubt it is developed enough to fathom reasoning such as playing a game of "find the hidden pellets"... They're basically programmed to search food and reproduce, not much else. We shouldn't anthropomorphize animals. That means we shouldn't put human feelings into their behaviour otherwise we'll end up "seeing something" which isn't truly there if it weren't for our own expectations.
@@GlassBoxDiaries please don't get me wrong, I really do appreciate the way you keep fish and others and your videos. I was simply sharing something similar out of my own experience and observations. It doesn't make me the world specialist of anything 😊
