Going to take down all but one of my tanks... need some help

[Whitecloudminnowguy092]

Hey guys!


A bit of a longer topic today, but after a lot of thinking, I have decided to down grade my fish room. (When I say fish room, its the room where I have 3 tanks lol). I just do not have the time to do water changes weekly anymore. I am wayyyy to busy to even get all three done on the same day. I was not able to do water changes for 2 weeks (until today). I really like my 10g and 5g tanks, but I think it would be best to take those down and transfer the good thriving plants and fish to the 20g long and to make the 20 long my only tank where I put all of my fishkeeping time into it to make it look near perfect (not really possible but you know) with all the variety of plants I have. To set contezt here is what I have. (Just to be clear, the info below may seem a bit unclear. I sometimes have trouble putting my thoughts into a message or post, apoligies)



20 Gallon Long aquarium: (The tank I intend to keep)



The fish:

8x Harlequin Rasboras

15x blue neo shrimp

8x ghost shrimp

4 peppered corydoras

1 nerite snail

Ramshorn snails



The plants:

limnofiimno wilsonii (LOTS of it)

Amazon sword

Lilly bulb plant

Anubias nana

Tiger lotus bulb

limno aramitica mini

Helanthium Bolivian quadrocostatus (This one shoots out runners but the main group of them are not doing as well as I wish, ok and alive but not thriving)

Obelia cardinals mini

Limno ragusa



And probably a few more, that I cannot remember lol.



Equipment:



2 Medium size Sponge filters (Aquarium Co-op)

1 Airstone with Tetra Air pump

Hygger light

top fin (cracked, will get new one soon) glass lid





Decor:

Dragon Stone

Spider wood

PFS (pool filter sand)







10 gallon tank (The tank that is thriving, but will take it down too)



Fish:

5 white cloud mountain minnows

1 nerite snail

ramshorn snails



Plants:

Amazon sword

lilly bulb

Water sprite (THRIVING, very lush green and massive)

Helanthium Bolivian quadrocostatus

Limno ragusa

limnofiimno wilsonii

Duckweed (very maintained and under control)



decor:

Large rock found in a nearby creek, very well cleaned

small piece of dragon stone and spiderwood



Equipment:

Topfin 10g Starter Kit filter

Topfin 10g lid



5 gallon tank



No fish



GH is high, cannot get it down



3 remaining ramshorn snails



2 anubias plants

dwarf sag



and all rock from a creek. Tank is not doing to good want to take it down anyways....









The ferts I use for ALL tanks is GLA ferts, Micro and Macro mixes.









So! That is the tanks. My goal is this: To break down both the 10g and 5g, get the thriving plants and fish out and transfer to the 20g long. Also forgot to mention anacharis plants that I got when buying the blue shrimp.





My question, how could I combine to the make the ULTIMATE 20g long? And can I keep the WCMM with the stocking above in my 20g long?



I will add more info later. Pics below. Thanks all!

The 20g long (ABOVE) is the tank I will keep.

Ignore the TOTM banner. That is the 10g above.





Do not have a current pic of my 5g. It looks bad anyways.









Btw, I did a water change today ONLY on my 20g. By next week I want those other 2 tanks gone and empty. Also, final question I just remembered, how to safely transport the healthy plants from tank to tank?

 

[GaryE22 20]

Easily done. You may lose some of the bulb plants, the lotus types, but they don't usually thrive for long in small tanks like a 20 long, let alone in a 10. Plan the plant placement and the tank should be a beauty.

I, umm, transport plants by pulling them out and replanting them elsewhere. You may or may not want some root tabs.

You won't be overstocked.

 

[Naughts60 132]

You may want to give some plants a good trim (water sprite, limnophila, anacharis) and also trim the roots to make replanting easier. Ditch the duckweed as far as possible.
I think you should use all other plants and wood, but not all the stone. Maybe your creek rocks could sit outside of the tank for now?
If you use the 10g filter you won’t need the air stone and air pump.
I look forward to a photo of the redone 20g.

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy092]

Thanks @GaryE and @Naughts !

I actually decided to keep the 10g. I moved the WCMMS to the 20g long and am about to remove all the shrimp out of the 20g long. So stocking should be in place with only the corydoras, rasboras, and minnows. Snails and shrimp are headed to the 10g.

However I am going to take down my 5g and move over the plants. The 10g just has a special place in my heart, it was my first succesful tank so I think that if I alternate the water changes, 20g one week, 10g next, then 20, then 10 over each month things will slow down for me.


Pics of the rescape soon!