Jeery try pygmy corys they work great and you can use them very early on like at a month or less. Good luck Dave --- JerrCarol@aol.com wrote: > Thanks much Dave, > for your advice on strait RO. I've tried bringing > it down with minimal > minerals but, it would take forever via water > changes to get it down real > low. As for dither fish. I don't use any but, I've > been using Cory Cats in > tanks where the fry are about 5 mos old. They do a > nice job keeping things > clean. I wonder How young you think the fry could be > when it would be safe to > use Cory's to clean up. I have a couple tank with > fry in them now. Only 1 to > 2 months old. Its hard not to overfeed, when you can > barely see the stuff > your feeding them. I get real nervous about cleaning > them cause sometimes the > fry are just hard to see. I know the water needs to > be kept clean. I try to > do partial changes and clean twice a week. Well, > thanks much again > > JerryB > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com.