What Goes In With My Oddballs, Picture Editon

[spAcE mOnkEy]

ah, sorry, but the minimum tank size posted for him on that very page is 50 gallons laugh.gif
I Took the kribs to the LFS and came upon the decision that my brochis would indeed inhabbit the 38, while I got apistos of sorts for the 10, and the 10 will turn into a 20-30 after xmas if I keep my room picked up biggrin.gif

Never listen to live aquaria's "Minimum tank size". No 4 inch fish should need a 50 gal tank! But these fish are brackish, so you cant get them anyway. I'm pretty sure they are brackish.... They do have spines on the back. Also they sit at the bottom, and you should really look into getting a school of black skirt tetras or something else, keep the top of the tank alive. Too many bottom dwellers = bad.

 

[Gankutsuou]

I've explained this once, I'll explain this again.

with heavy planting, the eels become mid dwellers over half of the day, hanging in the plants.
The bichir right now doesn't bottom dwell
the elephant nose never actually rests its body on the bottom.

Thus my bottom dwellers that take perm. residence are the plecos and brochis.

but yes, they are all geared more that direction, except the ABF.

here's the new lil male apisto all stressed out. they are Apistogramma trifasciata.

 

[Gankutsuou]

Unexpected visitor, pics sure to be up soon...

So both my apistos seem to be male, but we can not be sure untill they fully colored up....
But they both seem to be getting blue in. one is definatly a male, one keeps switching yellow to blue and could be either. only time will tell. But in case, I got more white whole rock.

The rock outside the tanks were far to big for my small 10 g
So, what instead does he offer? rock inside the tanks. So I get 2 small pieces and he puts them out of the tanks after shaking water out, bag em, and I take em home.

I then set up the lighting I got for my 2.5 at petsmart. The rock came from a diff store on the way back.

So I then take the rock out of the bag, and look down, to see what appears to be a dead red tail blue loach. It is a red tailed blue loach. 20 minutes out of water and being perhaps crushed by rock must have done him in...

on closer inspection.. he's breathing....

Dumped him into the tank, and now he can't decide if he wants to shoal with the eels or the brochis, but he's going with the borchis mostly

and that'll take care of my snail problem too. Honestly I had planned on getting just 1 more brochis to get up to 5 for a happy shoal, but if this guy keeps with them, he stays.

at least till the snails are gone