Recent content by Malachi Muthiah

Amano shrimp are hard to breed. And I don’t think they’d compete for food.

Should I get 6 otocinclus and no Amano shrimp?

I have a fully cycled 20 gallon tank. It has a background of vallisneria and then a full carpet of dwarf hair grass. For fish, I was thinking of getting neon tetras, honey gouramis, amano shrimp, and/or otocinclus. Would it work to have 15 neon tetras, 2 honey gouramis, 4 amano shrimp and 4...

OK great! I’m going to start acclimating them now!

OK. But I can put the kribensis in the new tank now and everything will be fine. Right? I just did a water test and everything is how it should be for the tank. No ammonia, nitrates, or nitrites. Ph is around 7. Temperature of the water is 76 degrees

Ok. Would it work for me to now move the sponge filter to my 10 gallon tank so that it can also cycle? But also put my kribenis in the 20. Does that work?

Ok. I have been running the sponge filter in my 20 for almost 5 hours. How long should it be in there? Is my tank already cycled enough to put my kribensis pair in? Of course I would check the parameters with the API Test kit.

Yes. I also have a sponge filter just sitting in one of my tanks. It was used for about 18 months. Should I run that along filter in each of my tanks for a day or two? Then will they be safe for fish?

I have a 10 gallon planted tank with some dragon stone as well as a 20 gallon long planted sand tank with wood and rock caves. I set those up just a couple days ago. I am downsizing tanks and getting rid of my 46 gallon bowfront which still has my kribensis pair that I want to keep. I then have...

Or is there something that could swim in the upper water column that wouldn't bother the kribensis and make them mad?

Ok. So if I want a breeding pair of kribensis, are there any fish that could go in the 20 long with them. I've done some research and it seems like the kribensis get very rowdy and territorial. So, would that mean that there wouldn't be any other fish I could put in that tank except for maybe...

Ok. Is that the same for kribensis?

PH is 7 and GH is around 4 or 5

Or should I try to switch the cherry shrimp into the 10 gallon and have the cockatoo cichlids in the 20?

Hey everyone! I have a 10 gallon that I want to set up but first need to know what to stock in it. Right now I have a 20 gallon tall with 3 honey gouramis and 10 neon tetras as well as a 20 gallon long with cherry shrimp. All three are planted tanks. Right now I am interested in cockatoo...