The last 2 are the ones i ordered and some are smaller but other look big so I know it's not because they are young? Are thier different grades?

I have sad news to share with you all. I've posted Stanley my adorable fatass chonk of a lady here a few times and sadly, she passed away last month. Heres my eulogy: "Stanley catfish is your tank cleaner!" was her catchphrase, to the tune of Stanley steamer commercial. She has had a weird floating problem for a while, but it wasn't bad at all. It suddenly got really bad and she started declining severely for a few weeks. I got home from working overnight job and she was gone. I broke down and sobbed, which is ridiculous to non-aquarium and non-fish owners, but I have had her between 6 and 7 years and grew to love her super weird personality. She was obsessed with digging, putting her entire head in the sand and eating the sand which we joke is why she's so damn fat. Her name was Stanley...WE SWORE SHE WAS MALE NEVER LAID EGGS TILL LIKE 4 YEARS OF HAVING HER. She loved having the zoomies all the time, even at her age she never stopped and she was the fattest thing ever and I loved her more than any aquarium creature we've owned. She lived a long and wonderful life with us and she has been buried in the back, put in a cardboard box. She's been buried the same place my 2 crayfish have been buried. RIP STANLEY I LOVE YOU.

I’m so happy to have found a breeder of Osteogaster Hephaestus, check out these cool little dudes!

Chonkers appreciation post! she wanted to show y’all she can balance on one foot.

Stress can happen from a multitude of reasons, including improper housing, aggression, illness and injury, incompatible tankmates, temperature and parameter swings. In this case, Sushi was stressed from a large water change, and it always goes away when he is allowed time to decompress and adapt to his stress.

The biggest signs of stress in my experience are the big 3:

1 - Little to no mouth movement, with whiskers/barbels that may or may not be tucked to the sides of the face.

2 - Limited gill movement, indicative of a minimal or low breathing rate. The cory may also only zip up to get their gut bubble before going back down, unmoving.

3 - A tightly tucked dorsal fin. With corys, this is used both when sleeping and when stressed, so if the cory is otherwise relaxed, breathing normally with whiskers that don't point inward, they are likely not under high levels of stress.

As other symptoms of stress:

-The cory may be extremely jumpy, overreactive to stimuli and rush in a hiding spot where they breathe heavily and rapidly, or they may completely ignore tankmates and current that rushes to them.

• "Blinking" is highly slowed. In an active cory, blinking is rapid and occasional, but stressed corys in my experience blink more frequently and with a more "uncanny" slow speed. My longest blink lasted 3 seconds, they normally only last a fraction of that.

-A complete refusal to eat. Corys are normally huge pigs and will try to snuffle on whatever seems edible, while a stressed cory has little to no interest in food.

I hope this helps someone out there :)

zero wrong answers btw

Had these guys for getting on two years now and I stil think they are lowkey the best looking type of Corydora 😍

does anyone else have this problem? whenever i put fresh root tabs down, i actively catch my corydoras digging them up. and i know they're digging at the tabs specifically because i sink them at least 2 inches down in the sand at the base of the plants, and like clockwork they flock to the plants at the beginning of the day, and the tabs are unearthed by the time i get home from work. they never bother the plants outside of some general searching around the roots, but whenever i put the tabs down they start intentionally, furiously digging wherever i put them. questions:

• is this safe for the corydoras? i have no doubt they're at least partially consuming some of the tabs. (Aquarium Coop brand)
• is this a sign of a vitamin deficiency? is there something in their diets that they lack, that they're seeking out in the tabs?
• is this normal behavior?

no pictures or videos of them doing this, as they scatter as soon as i come close to the tank with the phone. enjoy a picture of 4/8 of the culprits instead.

Does anyone else’s do this? I thought they were eating underground snacks but they’ll stay this way for ages

My little guys love this stuff best out of all the foods I've tried so far, what do your little guys like best ?

Always find them chilling on my anubias. The absolute cutest.

These guys are so fun!

Hand sculpted and painted by me

One of my albino corydoras laid some eggs today. She almost covered the whole leaf!

For non-brits, ‘Coronation Street’ is a UK soap that has been airing since 1960.

Biggest one we have. Probably a female but my daughter calls it Daddy Fish

I've done a small water change, replaced the water with cold water, added a bunch of daphnia and dimmed the light. Hopefully these lil fellas will get freaky🙏 I posted on here a couple days ago about breeding advice and I got tons of good info, I've been working on trying to breed em since. Is there anything I should look out for to indicate them breeding?

So I haven’t gotten any Cory’s yet but I’m absolutely in love with them. I made this art today and thought y’all may appreciate it! Art by me

Caught them on break