Recent content by Annemarie

Got it, there’s definitely some danios and rasboras I’ve found cool looking, and I’ll try to look into cool varieties that would suit my environment

Oh my gosh, thanks so much for all the helpful information everyone! If I stumble onto certain fish that stand out to me I’ll definitely run it by you Byron! Right now I’ve been really into Japanese rice fish and shiners (rainbow shiners and other varieties) but with my kuhli loaches the temp...

Hello everyone, So seeing as I’ve been told that my water is soft at 38ppm, I’ve been scouring the internet looking for fish I may want down the road. Problem is, so many of the fish I find myself looking at want 45-60ppm or above (at least according to seriously fish). I don’t want to make any...

Okay, I’ll definitely put more research into possible cichlids and types of dither fish to see what I can realistically handle, thanks for all the ideas and recommendations.

Awesome! I only had in mind one cichlid total, as I read that having pairs increases agression. I’m probably going to sit on the idea of a cichlid for a while, as I want to add the other fish first and make sure the less agressive fish are more confident, but thanks for confirming!

Ok Coolio. Just for the sake of confirming it would cichlids be okay in the aquarium with the loaches or should I stay away from cichlids at all? Again, the only cichlids I was even remotely interested in were a keyhole cichlid or an apistogramma but I can totally live without them if it’s a bad...

Got it, I’m better with non aquatic plants so I guess I’m just not used to only sand being acceptable for plants. Thanks:)

Yeah, my bad. The substrate is sand. I read that kuhli loaches like to bury in the sand so I figured it would be the best substrate to use. I know that plants obviously need nutrients though, so I was considering maybe swapping some or all of the sand out for something like fluvial bio stratum...

Oh ok, got it! I’ll get the loaches first after I put in more plants to make the ones I have happier for sure. I’m surprised that neither of those cichlids would work though, I figured if there was enough cover and they were nice enough cichlids (though I understand nice isn’t exactly the best...

So I looked at some soft water fish and I love the thought of maybe some lemon tetras or the pencil fish as previously thought. I tried looking into soft water community fish, and I wanted to know if maybe peaceful apistogramma, clown killifish, or keyhole cichlids would work? I’m not positive...

Oh awesome! I’ve grown up being told we had hard water so I wasn’t expecting to hear that, as long as nobody objects I’ll start looking into soft water fish like the ones you recommended. Thanks for letting me know!

It looks like it’s about 38ppm, though I’m seeing it tends to stay around that number year round.

I haven’t explicitly tested my KH or GH, but last time I checked my ph was between 7-7.5. My city claims to have slightly hard water, and that the grains per gallon tends to stay at the low - mid 30s from what I can see. Again, I’ve never actually tested how hard my water is but that’s what the...

Hello everyone, I have a 36 gallon aquarium (about 136 liters and measures approx 30 wide x 15 deep x 21 tall in inches) and I want to get ahead on planning what fish I can keep in it. I have an AquaClear 50 gallon and a tetrawhisper 20 gallon filter running in it, and I’m planning on getting...

Awesome, thank you so much everyone! I’ll look into both lights and see what works for me :)