r/Boraras

I'm wondering if my boy Ricky is actually a lady about to give birth or if I fed him a bit too much. Attached is an attempt at a screenshot to show the belly and a full shot of my planted tank. I use a liquid testing kit and all numbers are normal. Emerald Eye rasboras! Thanks for your help!

A couple of my Chili Rasboras have longer than normal fins. This one has the longest fins out of them all. Is this normal? I couldn’t find much about it.

Important parts:

61cm (2') x 31cm (1') x 40cm (16") tall tank

pH 5.5

GH and KH basically 0

Filtration: 1 old sponge filter

Current amount of rasboras: 16

Tank mates: cherry shrimp, snails, common otocinclus, giant otocinclus.

Feeding: micro fish food (forgot the brand ATM), microorganisms, baby brine shrimp and homemade herbivore/algivore wafers

Backstory:

I initially set this tank up 1 year ago (+1 year dry start to get the moss growing just right) intending for it to be a high tech cherry shrimp tank with some additional otocinclus and a few chili rasboras, but things got in the way, high tech wasn't my thing, the otocinclus were in terrible shape and when they finally got back to good shape they started breeding, so I postponed the chili rasboras for about a year, last week my LFS received 20 strawberry rasboras, so I bought 10 to try them out (rookie mistake, bought them the same day they arrived), liked them a lot and went back the day before yesterday for the remaining 10, they only had 6 left, so my group is currently at 16 fish. I have fallen in love with them and would love to get more, but first I would like to know from people with more experience how many could be kept comfortably in my tank (I've read the suggested care guide) and any advice is welcome.

Only maintenance the tank gets is the occasional 20-30% water change and rarely a bottom syphoning (when the mulm gets over an inch in depth), this seems to work out great for the current inhabitants and the tank is flooding with microorganisms that I've seen the rasboras occasionally snack on. Sometimes I add a bunch of dry leaves after a water change and let them disappear while the tannins get removed over the course of months by water changes, so the tank has months of being blackwater and months of being clear water.

I started with 4 least rasboras in a flex 9. They were fussy eaters but I got them going and they happily explored the tank. Well, I got 4 more and left them in the care of my spouse bc I had a family emergency out of town. I came back to 3 fish...or so I thought! Today, weeks later, I saw all 8 of them hiding in the back of the tank. They're spending most of their time in a cave feature under some driftwood. I want them to feel more comfortable and explore the tank like the first 4 were doing. They are much easier to monitor and feed if they come out. Do you see anything obvious about the tank here? Too bright? Not enough plants?

I got a school of 13 pheonix rasbora in my 50L tank 1 of them looks different with a solid stripe and brighter colors also he seem to chase the others a lot no one of them is getting hurt tho

Hi! This is my 15 gal tank. It’s been going for a few months, I’ve been interested on adding chilli rasboras because I’ve heard a lot of good things about them. My betta is super chill and hasn’t attacked any of my shrimp.

My main questions are that if my tank is good enough for them ex hiding spots and space, and that if it is what should I feed them? I have bug bites but they seem to big for them!

Hi! I noticed some odd behavior from one of my rasboras today, where it seems to be chasing another around. It also suddenly had a slightly darker coloration. I didn't know if it was stress related (just added a couple shrimp and did some gravel cleanup), so I dimmed the lights. I do have 4 fry in my tank so I know they're breeding, but I'm not sure if this is related. Are they fighting? My other rasboras seem normal. Any info is appreciated!

10 gallon / 1 chill betta / 2 Amano shrimp / 7 adult rasboras

Parameters:

Ammonia 0/Nitrates 5 ppm/Nitrites 0

Kept between 78-80F

Lots of live plants

Sponge filter

Gravel cleaned every 2-3 days, small water change every week

LFS that sold me the rasboras is having me treat my entire community tank with kanaplex. I removed all chemical filtration as well. Really down as I dont want to lose any fish, snails or shrimps. Especially since the tank is new (it is cycled). Hoping removing my 3 packets of purigen won't crash the cycle now. Welcoming all overall advice

Ammonia 0 nitrites 0 nitrates <10

Green rasboras 20ish

Ember tetras 20ish

Albino corys 8

Guppies 8

Pygmy corys 15

Neocaridina 8

Ramhorn snails 8

Rabbit snails 3

64 gallon tank. Dosed for 60 per lfs instructions.

I am moving out of the country next month and have no idea what to do with my little fish. The news was sudden.
I have around 11 dwarf rasboras and 2 amano shrimp. They are nearly 5 years old. Any ideas are appreciated. If you live nearby and have the aquarium space to take them let me know.
Located in Vancouver BC, Canada.
Thank you

Caught some teeny tiny sparring happening in my tank this morning.

Hey all, I've had my chilis for over a year now and they are still clear without a hint of red. I've fed them a high-protein powdered diet, and recently introduced them to live moina.

What are the most obvious causes of not gaining any color?

Hello!

I take care of a very planted shrimp tank. A few weeks ago i noticed a tiny fish fry that must have gotten in with plants i bought from someone off marketplace (i was expecting free snails, not free fish...xD) - they say it's a spotted rasbora (baby pic included from when it was big enough to photograph, when it got there, it was even smaller! :D). It's no longer tiny, it's bigger than few of my shrimps, and i love watching it interact with everything in the tank!

The thing is my tank is small - something i found in parents basement, is 23L (6gal) and was never intended to house anything more than shrimp and a lot of snails, fish was not something i planned for. It feels unethical to add more fish for them to school (if they can even school in this tiny tank), and it feels wrong to leave this singular fish to be single their entire life. I cannot upgrade to a bigger tank (at least right now it's crazy expensive even secondhand) that would be a suitable enviroment, and i don't know if you can even "rehome" a single fish... ^^"
+ i'm afraid she's going to eat the shrimplets once my pregnant mamas give birth. I don't know what to do :'D
What would be the best course of action in this situation?

Thank you!