Size Issue

Recently, I'd just been going back and forth about my tank, right now I'm in the forth. I'm second guessing my 75 gallon in my room. I think it's too big and noisy. Also the location isn't all that great. I'ts like 2 feet away from my bed and everytime I get off my bed my parrots jet into their hiding places. And they will hide most of the day also when I'm in my bed. Sometimes more than other days. I would of liked to have a 40 gallon breeder on top my dresser but the dresser is too small, and I would have to buy a bigger dresser which costs like a thousand something.

The tank itself is doing good though. The only thing is that Penguina has developed some small black markings on her back. They say it could be due to stress or breeding. I don't know. All I did was change the decorations a little bit. I also got a 2 way breeder to feed Angelo my snail. Now he can eat without worrying about the blood parrots eating his food. Later one I will get him some buddies. I plan on getting an ivory snail and a jade snail. They are great for the brown algae in my tank.

Change in scenery

Well I got my qurantine tank set up and ready. The filter on it is amazingly quieter than my emperor filters.

I also put my last surviving cory in my sisters tank, seeing it would of died in my tank like the other 5 sooner or later from not getting any food. Hopefully it will get some more food in her tank. When you drop a wafer in it, the fish don't play football with it like the fish in my tank do.

The cory seems to be doing ok, though a little nervous of his new sorroundings which I can completely understand. My sister and I have completely different tastes when it comes to fishkeeping. Her tank is brightly lit with rainbow fish and clownloaches, which give it a colorful appearance. Kind of reminds me of a sunny beach somehow. My tank on the other hand is lightly lit with a black background and a few broken up pieces of wood. It kind of has an eery feel to it compared to my sister's happy one. So I can totally see the shock in scenery for the little cory.

I have noticed, however, that the cory doesn't swim on the upper to mid level parts of the tank like he did in mine. In my tank he would never venture to the bottom unless I was feeding the fish then he would search the bottom for food. In this tank he seems to be swimming on the bottom a lot more. I'll keep you posted and see if it continues.

Introduction

Been awhile since I had my parrots, about 6 months now. Just to give a basic idea of my tank. It's a 75 gallon with 2 female blood parrots. The rounder chubbier one is named Chufie. The more oval one is named Penguina. They are still shy right now, but not nearly as shy when I first introduced them into the tank and they have grown about an inch since. They are 3.5 inches right now. They have 5 long finned tetras for company which are all healthy and I haven't had any real problems with any of my fish except for the sterbai cories. I can't seem to feed them without the parrots or long finned tetras stealing their food.

I had six sterbais now there is only one. One I picked up this morning, he had died overnight. For a bottom dwelling fish, they sure don't spend much time on the bottom. When I first got them, they would always be in the bottom but now they are always swimming in the middle part of the tank.

Anyways, I'm planning on getting a bigger cory called a brochis multiradiatus or hognosed cory. I am going to get started on cleaning the ten gallon tank my sister gave me to use for a quarantine tank and I'm going to buy the ten gallon stand at wallmart.