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Here are a few pics I took recently of the Corydoras fry I have in the fishroom currently. It's interesting to compare the size of fry at hatching. It has no correlation to adult fish size. Generally speaking long nose corys have smaller eggs.

Over time I will go through my old posts and repost the images. Or can create updated posts, you never know! lol

@inkevnito sorry about the late reply. There are a bunch of species that endlers would be fine with, like the Chromaphyosemion group which includes biateniatum, poliaki, volcanum etc. Very young endler fry might be eaten though.

Looking forward to your new adventures.

What Zoidburg said. Your tank TDS and your water change TDS will mix and average out. So if your tank TDS is higher than your target, mix a lower TDS with your change water. Vice Versa. It's not difficult. You'll get it.

If your tank is 46 litres, and the water in the tank is 200 TDS, if you remove 6 litres of water that's 200 TDS, and you add back in water that is 200 TDS, then the tank will remain stable at 200 TDS. However, if the TDS rises to, say, 225 TDS, due to evaporation, food, waste and decomposing organics, if you remove 6 litres of 225 TDS water and add back in water that's 200 TDS, it's going to be less than 225 TDS but higher than 200 TDS. Once you get the hang of doing water changes, you could add in water of lower TDS to target a 200 TDS count. Say, the TDS rises to 225, you remove enough water, and what you add back in is 180 TDS. Once the tank has had time to settle (you may not get accurate TDS readings once you add the water back in - it can take a bit of time to mix), the TDS will be around 200.

For those interested, I have some sad news! I am shutting down this tank, and as such will be selling stock and plants. The good news is that I have just purchased a house, so will be setting this up again in a few months time once we settle and renovate. Massive overhaul to take place, and plan to give a low-tech iwagumi style tank a shot. Will also include a refresh to the stand, chuck on some doors etc... paint. jazz the whole set up. Will start a new thread in due course.

You can also consider live blackworms too. Some planted tank folks and shrimp keepers use them to help aerate the soil and consume any uneaten food.

SKFA is now not only for Shrimps. Hence the name change - SKF Aquatics. So it would be great if we could see more posts from you about your Killies and tanks. There is a killi page just for killies.