Thank you! We don't have many LFS' with live food here, but I will look for them. What exactly are blackworms anyway?
--Allis

What is a good live food for corys and other bottom feeders? Where would I get such a thing? What kinds of foods will help them grow and be healthy?

--Allis

Barbels can wear down from sharp substrate. I would guess the pink is a resulting surface infection. I had luck treating ulcers on a goldfish with Melafix, so if the sores don't go away, maybe you could try that.

:?: I know Corys are schooling fish, but do they need their own species, or can they school with other species of Corys instead? Specifically, I have four C. panda (number five died shortly after I got them) and now I have a new C. trilineatus. Do I need more of each, or can I put them together and ...

I registered here today to get the answer to this very question. C.julii or C.trilineatus? I thought I recently bought a C.julii, but maybe not. Will vertical lines extending up from the central horizontal line do me any good? My fish has them, as well as a bit of a reticulated pattern. It does not ...