alexdallimore
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Hi
My aquarium seems to stay in the bottom half. They do venture up but seem to like to hang nearer the bottom. The only time my fish seemed to want to come and swim in the top half was when one of the new rainbows was sick and swimming in the current. Am I right in thinking that bu having top swimmers that this will also encourage others to swim higher.
At the moment I have a 220 ltr (water content) 275ltr tank 4ft aquarium with
1 clown loach
3 golden barbs
3 blue rainbows
2 red rainbows
5 fake siamese algea eaters
2 tiger barbs
1 albino ruby shark
Everything seems happy with each other and I did manage to get rid of 3 chinese algea eaters.
I know the clown should be with more and so should the tigers but these are the fish I got from the previous owner who hadn't purchased them in the right amounts. I can't increase the tigers as the LFS only has large ones and mine are young small ones. If I buy any more clowns then the bottoms going to be even more packes.
I was thinking of some golden panchax but have read that they can be quite aggressive and arn't the best for community tanks so then I was thinking of giant danios. I really need something that will stay nearer the top though.
The other question was furniture. Does the layout and hight of plants and wood etc make a difference to swimming levels?
Cheers for any views
My aquarium seems to stay in the bottom half. They do venture up but seem to like to hang nearer the bottom. The only time my fish seemed to want to come and swim in the top half was when one of the new rainbows was sick and swimming in the current. Am I right in thinking that bu having top swimmers that this will also encourage others to swim higher.
At the moment I have a 220 ltr (water content) 275ltr tank 4ft aquarium with
1 clown loach
3 golden barbs
3 blue rainbows
2 red rainbows
5 fake siamese algea eaters
2 tiger barbs
1 albino ruby shark
Everything seems happy with each other and I did manage to get rid of 3 chinese algea eaters.
I know the clown should be with more and so should the tigers but these are the fish I got from the previous owner who hadn't purchased them in the right amounts. I can't increase the tigers as the LFS only has large ones and mine are young small ones. If I buy any more clowns then the bottoms going to be even more packes.
I was thinking of some golden panchax but have read that they can be quite aggressive and arn't the best for community tanks so then I was thinking of giant danios. I really need something that will stay nearer the top though.
The other question was furniture. Does the layout and hight of plants and wood etc make a difference to swimming levels?
Cheers for any views