xxBarneyxx
Fish Aficionado
What I have to work with:
29"x12"x12" 68L aquarium.
Will be heavily planted.
Water hardness is around 220ppm (so high end of medium to low end of hard, not sure what that is in Dh)
PH around 7.5
I'm ok with going slightly over "recommended" stocking limited in terms of bio load, it is heavily filtered and the plants will take care of it. However I don't want to overcrowd swimming areas.
I think we would prefer more smaller fish over a couple of larger one. Would also like to include shrimp and snails.
One idea I had was:
X8 Lampeye Panchax
X5 Panda Corys
X8 Glowlight Danios
X8 Whitecloud Mountain Minnows.
Running the tank at around 22C should be fine for most of these guys and the water parameters should be ok too. From what I can see it is the very lower temperature limits of what Lampeyes want though, so not so sure on that one. My daughter really loves them though. I have also never kept any of these fish before so that would be a positive as well.
I could drop the WCMM and up the temp a little bit but then it is probably back to looking at the more hard water tolerating tetra species again. I'm not 100% opposed to this but I have pretty much been there and done that already with most of the commonly available tetras that would be suitable.
Another possibility would be to drop the WCCM and just get a couple of extra Danios and lampeyes. or dropping the lampeyes and going for another fish that prefers cooler water.
Really nothing set in stone here yet so any interesting suggestions or ideas would be great.
29"x12"x12" 68L aquarium.
Will be heavily planted.
Water hardness is around 220ppm (so high end of medium to low end of hard, not sure what that is in Dh)
PH around 7.5
I'm ok with going slightly over "recommended" stocking limited in terms of bio load, it is heavily filtered and the plants will take care of it. However I don't want to overcrowd swimming areas.
I think we would prefer more smaller fish over a couple of larger one. Would also like to include shrimp and snails.
One idea I had was:
X8 Lampeye Panchax
X5 Panda Corys
X8 Glowlight Danios
X8 Whitecloud Mountain Minnows.
Running the tank at around 22C should be fine for most of these guys and the water parameters should be ok too. From what I can see it is the very lower temperature limits of what Lampeyes want though, so not so sure on that one. My daughter really loves them though. I have also never kept any of these fish before so that would be a positive as well.
I could drop the WCMM and up the temp a little bit but then it is probably back to looking at the more hard water tolerating tetra species again. I'm not 100% opposed to this but I have pretty much been there and done that already with most of the commonly available tetras that would be suitable.
Another possibility would be to drop the WCCM and just get a couple of extra Danios and lampeyes. or dropping the lampeyes and going for another fish that prefers cooler water.
Really nothing set in stone here yet so any interesting suggestions or ideas would be great.
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