Chief_waterchanger

You should have a cord that hooks into your camera and a USB outlet on the other end to go to your computer. Once you upload the pictures from your camera onto your computer you follow MrsMuffin's advice. Click 'Manage attachments'. Click 'Browse'. Then find where you saved the pictures (usually, for me, it is under the 'pictures' folder.) Double click picture. You can post up to 5 pictures per post, I believe. MAKE SURE that you hit 'UPLOAD' and wait for it to finish uploading BEFORE you hit submit post.

I think that is what you were asking?

Seatown12

ok well first off I have to buy the fish before I get the pictures haha! right now i have an empty 10 gallon tank

So what do you guys think does this sound like a good tank set up?

5 pygmy cories
1 male betta

Martinismommy

Which Cruise are you going on? I've done the Mexican cruises....Are you doing the Royal Carribean cruise lines or Cannival?

Chief_waterchanger

Mighty,

I think the 5 pygmy cories and 1 betta sounds great.

Make sure you feed enough veggie matter to the cories. You could do zucchini slices, kale or swiss chard leaves (which make less of a mess but usually takes the fish a bit of time to get used to, but if you don't feed them anything but that for a couple of days they'll eat it and begin doing so regularly), you could include a veggie or algae wafer or pellet, even.

Seatown12

Martinsmommy im going on the carnival what did you think of it?

Seatown12

Yea I will proboly feed my betta tetra tropical coler enhancing fish flakes and feed the cories algea wafers I hope the pygmy cories are mid level swimmers though I like some activity in the tank

Chief_waterchanger

I couldn't comment on the pygmies as to what level they swim on, because the ones I have are in a 40g long tank that is only about 10 inches tall, but the same length as a 55g. Also, remember that the more variety in foods you give your fish the better their immune systems and the better they will color up and be all around healthier.

Sorry if you know all of this already, but I learned long ago that when giving advice and training you should teach everyone as though they know nothing and hope they are smart enough to realize that is not condecending, but is a blanketing of knowledge so as to decrease your chances of omitting pertinent facts.

(Veggies you can give slices of for pygmies would include: Squash, zucchini, cucumber, steamed carrot (softened), and dark leafy greens (kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, spinach, romaine lettuce, swiss chard, etc). As for the betta you could do mosquito larvae, blood worms (frozen or freeze dried), small worms, planaria, small insects (mosquitos, gnats, etc), tropical flake, veggie flake, mixed flake, mysis shrimp, smaller aquarium shrimp (cherry shrimp, ghost shrimp, etc), baby or adult brine shrimp, etc. Those are just other ideas that you may or may not have thought of, and by no means is it meant that you should feed all of those options, because the food would go bad before you could get rid of all of that.

Seatown12

does cucumber make the water messy? also are pygmy cories hardy??

Chief_waterchanger

Cucumber doesn't make the water messy if removed within 12 hours if not eatten. It will get messy if left for 18+ hours.

I would classify them as a fish that needs a bit of pampering. Maybe one step away from hardy. Mainly because they are small and always on the move, so they have an increased metabolism (kinda like a hummingbird), they are a bit more suseptible, in my opinion, to water conditions than the fish I would classify as hardy, and most found in the hobby are wild caught, because there are very few large scale domestic breeders. (Wild caught fish like the corydoras and otos tend to go through harsh conditions, such as cyanide being used to poison the water to "slow" the fish down to make them easy to catch in mass numbers as well as going, in some cases, weeks without food between transit back to the states and transit from wholesaler to shop... and some crack-pot shops that don't feed their stock.)

But if you do regular weekly waterchanges and don't introduce high levels of ammonia, nitrites, and prevent the nitrates from getting too high, as well as feeding a decent amount of vegetable matter (whether that be fresh veggies or processed veggie/algae foods) then you should be alright. (That's not to say that you won't lose some, or possible more if the source is not very reputable or if they get a particularly weak shipment... There are just too many variables involved with that to say one way or the other.)

gregg70

I have a 55 gal with 1 rainbow shark, 4 neons, 5 zebras, 4 rummy-noses, 1 pleco, & siamese algae eater. I set up my old 10 gal specifically for 1 male betta. After I got him(his name is Fabio), I had him in his 10 gal home for about 1 day. It just didn't seem right, it seemed lonely & boring for the little guy. So I had a crazy idea. I took a chance (with my trusty net in hand for quick rescue) and introduced Fabio to the rest of our fish family in the 55 gal. Fabio immediately surveyed his new environment from top to bottom, sizing up all other inhabitants. The only time Fabio flared up was when he encountered Miss Lorahai (the rainbow shark) in her castle-cave. After a few encounters he realized that Lora was no threat to him. I have had no problems after about 1 month, they all get along just fine. Fabio is always hanging with the zebras at feeding time. Fabio may be an exception to the rule, but you never know until you try.

Blub

Usually, with Betta in community tanks it takes a few months for the schoolers the find out how nippy his fins are, then he's doomed. It looks great for a while (why people think it's OK) but then disaster breaks out.

Iron waffle

I wanted to have a school of glowlights with my betta or a goldfish in my desktop tank, like i saw in the petstore. I guess as steve said earlier, it depends on the balance of the fish in said tank

Blub

Make sure you get the corys FIRST - otherwise the Betta will think they're invading his territory.

Gilbert, Goldfish and Betat do not mix because they need different water temps. Glowlights and Betta do not mix either, as they soon find out how nice the Bettas fins are to nip. Really Betta are solitary fish.

Iron waffle

Hatchet, and pardon my ignorance, but what in the world is a betta imbellis

Chief_waterchanger

Imbellis is another species of betta. (Betta is a genus and Imbellis is a species within that genus.)

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/spec...sname=imbellis

Iron waffle

Thanks chief.

Blub

Not many people have heard of them. They are like peaceful Plakats. They can be kept with glowlight tetras - as their fins are much smaller. I'm going to have mine with Ember tetras.