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[furry catfish]

I have finally thought up(another!) community for my 66 litre tank.7 copper harlequins,2 dwarf clawed frogs,1 bn cat fish and 3 (male) guppies with temperature at around 25 degrees celcius.If anyone has any problems with this please tell me so I can re-think.







thanks



Chris

 

[arobinson1984]

Sounds to me.

Be careful what type of frog you get, there are generally 2 kinds:

African dwarf frogs (ADF's) - These are the type you want for your tank, they stay small and wont cause any probs.

African clawed frogs (ACF's) - These get WAY too big and as they grow they will find your fish make rather tasty snacks!

Always check at your lfs when buying frogs as many mislabel the frogs accidently. The ADF's which are the ones you want are easily recognisable by the fact they have webbing between their toes on both their front and back feet, whereas the large ACF's only have webbing on their rear feet and have claws on thier front feet.

Andy

 

[furry catfish]

OK thanks ,I Knew about the adf acf but I never could tell the difference except that one was chubbier.Thanks









chris

 

[arobinson1984]

Yes, just check the front feet, if they are webbed, they are

Andy

 

[kizno1]

i think bns need 20g tanks min but im not sure

 

[lil-x-me...x]

are you choosing male guppies because you dont want any fry, because if so, i believe male guppies can still have fry. am i right?

what about some swordtails, mollies or platys? im not so sure if they are as more 'keen' into breeding than guppies are...i may be wrong though. ?

 

[kizno1]

are you choosing male guppies because you dont want any fry, because if so, i believe male guppies can still have fry. am i right?

no male guppies cant have fry or they wouldnt be male lol
i think its a bit small for mollys and sords i think they need 20g but platys would be fine

 

[lil-x-me...x]

no i mean i thought guppies could change sex to have fry ?

 

[kizno1]

ive read a few thing like that about swordtails changing sex but they have all been female to male and no one could prove that they had actualy had fry and wearnt just late developers but i havent heard them go from male to female

 

[lil-x-me...x]

ah ok. well then, you should be just fine then, ignor my earlier advice lol

 

[kizno1]

you could have some corys instead of the bn
and maby get a center piece fish like a pair of honey or dwarf gourami

 

[furry catfish]

corrys....interesting,do they eat algae like the plecos? and I was thinking about gouramis before but aren't they aggressive?








Chris

 

[kizno1]

corys dont eat algea but they will eat any uneaten food that drops to the bottom and are very active but need to be kept in shoals of atleast 5 to make them more active
honey and dwarfs arnt that argessive but they can be if you have 2 males

 

[furry catfish]

I love panda corrys but wouldn't a big shoal of corrys and a bigger shoal of copper harlequins over crowd the tank?

 

[kizno1]

i think 5 corys would be ok but i dont know if there ok with acf