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Update on Catfish...
I moved my baby Corys into another FW tank, to let this one be just for snails as I now have over 30 baby Nerites. The catfish moved are 9 in various sizes, all doing well.
They appear to be Bronze Corys, and have gotten big enough to see color, so they all have the greenish sheen to their bodies.
But today I was cleaning the community tank, and when I pulled out some plants to groom and move around, what should I see but another 5 catfish, which were also babies that survived the much bigger Mollies all around them. These were born in that tank, and managed to get up to a size that was safe with the Mollies. The 4 parents are growing and looking good, and still making eggs at least once a week. I always thought their eggs were hard to hatch and keep alive, but these are fine and now I have 4 adults, and 14 babies. And for those who don't think they can be happy in a brackish tank, well, here they are.
I moved my baby Corys into another FW tank, to let this one be just for snails as I now have over 30 baby Nerites. The catfish moved are 9 in various sizes, all doing well.
They appear to be Bronze Corys, and have gotten big enough to see color, so they all have the greenish sheen to their bodies.
But today I was cleaning the community tank, and when I pulled out some plants to groom and move around, what should I see but another 5 catfish, which were also babies that survived the much bigger Mollies all around them. These were born in that tank, and managed to get up to a size that was safe with the Mollies. The 4 parents are growing and looking good, and still making eggs at least once a week. I always thought their eggs were hard to hatch and keep alive, but these are fine and now I have 4 adults, and 14 babies. And for those who don't think they can be happy in a brackish tank, well, here they are.