Re-birth

Liam50 · Sep 3, 2009

This is my 20gallon.

and after a re scape, or "re birth"

i wanna thank two members one being Murphee for the wood you can see and two Weimster .

i currently have 2 common gibi's and yes i know tank is too small but as you can see i am searching for a 75gal to keep one and re-home the other. and i have 15 cherry shrimp's. so my stocking question is can i have khuli loaches or will they eat my shrimps? also what would be a good top level fish i was thinking cichlid but i think they would again eat the shrimp.

yvez9 · Sep 3, 2009

most fish will eat cherry shrimps as they are so small, especially the babies. the khluis are tiny though but I've never kept them so can't say for sure

for the top portion, honey or dwarf gouramis would be nice and you could have a pair!

Truck · Sep 3, 2009

yvez9 said:
most fish will eat cherry shrimps as they are so small.

cant say i agree.

the majority of fish in the trade are way to small to eat these.

dave_oddballs · Sep 3, 2009

khuli loach's should be fine, although even they might eat baby shrimps, but the chances of the baby shrimp living would be greatly increased by adding some moss, like java moss. also i notice just one corydora? they should be in groups and not kept singularly.
im unsure wether i would trust dwarf gourami's with small cherry shrimp, mabe something like honey gourami's would be more suitable.

Dave

Liam50 · Sep 4, 2009

just to let you guys know i plan to take the cory back to work on saturday. and i'm not sure whether to get khulies whilst i'm there or wait to get some java moss for the shrimps first then get the other fish as i want the best possible number of shrimps.