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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.

I have decided to get a few more shrimp to create more tanks similar to the one I had a few years back in the video below. This 4 foot tank had a lot of corys and I had a population explosion of shrimps. Currently, I set one up with yellow cherries and another with orange rillis. Going to be looking for more shrimp when it starts to warm up a bit in Canberra.

For sure, I don't know actually, I've kept many buce varieties over years now and never seen it melt before from heat, we get 40c summers here (obviously it's not that hot in the tank but still) And being Victoria it's quite cold too most of the year, and up until the very heart of winter when I moved it inside and submerged it, I have grown it outdoors in tubs unheated aswell as anubias, they are actually very hardy and ime prefer neglect and plain dechlorinated tap water with no special lighting or anything, it's just then they grow at a much slower rate more like anubias. I had a few tubs hidden away at the bottom of a dark green house last summer/autumn submerged and unheated. My pellia melted hardcore too and it's very sensitive to h202, but otherwise quite hardy from my experience. I cut half of it out and just took the oxydator out for this week, will put it back with half strength 2.45% h202 this time. Not saying the oxydator is bad or anything like that I love them :) just have to further recalculate as after more reading I've found the reaction time and intensity is also effected by temperature. As it seemed to run through the h202 really fast the first time. I cleaned up all the old melted leaves and diatoms, and the sponge filter, water change and ferts/ mironekuton. (No bentonite lol) water is so clean and clear it's insane. Forgot to take a pic after it was clean again lol I'll take one tommorow. Tons of fresh new growth now. Probabky lift the light up a bit too.

Another thing to watch out for with Buce melt is heat. Too hot and they melt. Not saying your temps are too hot, just adding info here for anyone that might be reading and wanted to start on bucephalandras. That's why they are great in shrimp tanks, that are generally kept cool.

Awesome looking tank and a great journal, very well done. Will be great to watch this tank mature over time.

Ok i think i have it nailed. Taking away the reflected images that are there i'm going to say 36.

Just a quick description of the plants used in this setup by order of coloured circles lol: Pink- B. Lamandau Blue- B. Mini Brownie Purple Orange- B. Dark Suken Red- B. Theia Green- B. Mini something something lol. Black- B. Gianmara White- B. Lamandau Mini Red Yellow- B. Forgoton lol

I covered up the plants and turned the house heater on the give the clay a chance fully expand, form up and set a little- without letting it dry. Now to add the substrate :) I pushed the first few cups of AS firm into the clay, then Filled to about the halfway point, leaving enough room to add another layer after a nice sprinkling of mironekuton and proper cal bento. It's time to get planting- A few more mosses on the wood. The front the rocks with my smallest buce varieties, then some of the sand to get an idea of height for planting etc. The main rock and more, only a couple left to go. Done- well all the gluing anyway, very sore back and way past my bedtime lol. So behind the centre of the wood Is going to be a red lotus and a C. Balansae, then I'm not sure about the back, Thinking finish it off with either Bolbitus, Green Amazon swords, or both just tangling through each other like a wild mess, Indecisive lol. Starting to look like one of my best scapes to date if you ask me.

Recently 2 of my green babaulti have become berried and so I thought I'd share some pics as these are not as common in the hobby as some. Also my new bluebolts are looking promising I have 2 berried females and a nice male paired with them. One should be ready to drop in the next week or thereabouts. [emoji173][emoji111][emoji445] will

My cardinals have bred. Pretty chuffed as I thought it would take them a bit longer. The adults are highly cryptic, hopefully these new bubs will be less inclined to hide away.