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Future Stocking
« on: January 24, 2015, 12:45:54 PM »
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After the outbreak of camallanus worms, the population of my big tank has been somewhat reduced. According to the Community Creator it is now 36% stocked.
While I wait to add the second dose of the medication in two and a half weeks, I am thinking about what to replace the infected fish with. Depending on what I can find locally.


Tank:
107 x 45 x 45cm. Holds 188 litres of water.
Sand substrate.
Three plastic ornaments covered in java fern and one has a small variety of anubias.
Piece of mangrove root with java fern
Three pieces of redmoor wood - one has hornwort draped through it, one has Anubias hastifolia attached, the third has Bolbitis heudelotii attached.
Two pots containing Echinodorus ozelot red.
Hornwort floating on the surface.
Eheim Biopower 240 internal filter.

Water:
pH 7.5, GH 6 German deg (and KH 3 deg)

Fish:
12 x Microdevario kubotai (substituted celestial pearl danios in the CC)
5 x green neon tetras (substituted 4 larger neon tetras in the CC)
5 x ember tetras
3 x dwarf chain loaches
2 x male endlers livebearers


I don't expect the endlers to live much longer as they quite old, as are the green neons which I bought in October 2010. I don't want to get more of these fish.
I have had the loaches for 71/2 years and with a life expectancy of 10 years, I don't want to add to these either.
I have quite a nice shoal of Microdevario, and they are hard to get hold of, so they will stay as a group of 12.
The ember tetras could do with being in a bigger shoal, but do I want any more?


I need fish that are happy in softish water and won't grow big enough to eat my smaller fish. And as I'll probably get more honey gouramis, something that doesn't nip fins and won't intimidate them.




Any suggestions?








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Re: Future Stocking
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2015, 07:05:33 PM »
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I was recently reading about Splash Tetra (Copella arnoldi) http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/copella-arnoldi/ and thought they look interesting and have amazing breeding behaviour. They need overhanging vegetation and both male and female jump out of the water to lay eggs on leaves. Here is a short YouTube film about it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAuHaeJqJis" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAuHaeJqJis</a>

My water would not be suitable for them, but I thought this would be an amazing future project and something to get my kids interested.

They might be OK for your water, though. :)

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Re: Future Stocking
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2015, 07:23:33 PM »
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I did actually have one of those once - I got it as a contaminant with something else, I forget what. It took me a while to ID it.

And it would suit my water, if I could find some.

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Re: Future Stocking
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2015, 07:34:49 PM »
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If you are OK with ordering via post, I saw them on ebay.

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Re: Future Stocking
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2015, 07:41:40 PM »
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I need to go round a few shops while I wait to add the second dose of Nematol so I'll see if any have them.

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