My First Planted Tank

[plantropimunity]

8) thats where i looked up all the recommendations that you made. thanks

 

[plantropimunity]

well, two days after i did a HUUGE waterchange on the tank (aka last night) i drip acclimated and added the rasboras from my ten gallon. (3 total). when i got home from work today, drumrolllllllll---- they were all still aliive!!
should i add the rest of the fish from the ten in there before too much bacteria from cycling die off??

edit: i am going to get the black neons in there tonight. i feel pretty confident that the bacterial colony established by cycling is far more than necessary to handle the bioload produced by three juvie rasboras and a couple of neons.
dripping as i type.

 

[Themuleous]

Yeh think you'd be ok to add the rest, how many would that make in total?

 

[plantropimunity]

3 rasboras
2 black neons
3 zebra danios

 

[Themuleous]

Yeh you'd probably be fine if you added them all at once

 

[plantropimunity]

do you think i would have enough room to have a group of five of each of these and still add my intended pair of rams and pair of killies?

or even a bigger shoal of rasboras?
edit: the species profile for harlequins says that a group of 12 to 24 can be kept in a 30 gallon, so i am guessing that i could keep up to 12 with the rest of my intended list. i have modified this in that i was able to separate out a pair from the three danios i had. those two are dripping right now. i dont know if they will breed in the thirty in the community setting or not, but if they do it would be pretty cool and if they dont i wont mind. i still plan on getting three more black neons, to make a small group of 5. i am supposed to get four german rams from a coworker tomorrow. i think i may skip the whole killifish idea until i can get a tank that i can dedicate to just the pair. in fact i know thats how i want to do that. so that makes my final list:
12 harlequins
2 danios 1m1f
5 black neons
4 german rams

what do you think??

 

[plantropimunity]

anyone have an idea as to how many of the rasboras i could add to that list?

 

[plantropimunity]

well, available finances being nonexistent, i have yet to change anything about the tank save for a 20% waterchange. i have been keeping lights going on and off intermittently, and have noticed a brown algae outbreak beginning. how should i feel about this? on the one hand i feel like this is a beginning to the tank maturing, but on the other hand i feel like this is something i should have been precluding with the addition of plants. when i do add plants, would some fast growers outcompete existing algae?