Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => New Fishkeepers => Topic started by: Triaj07 on April 20, 2015, 12:56:08 PM
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Hi this is my first post :)
Fairly new to tropical fish keeping although I've had cold water for a while now
Currently got a
200 litre tank
In it there is 5 golden barbs, 5 Dalmatian mollies, two dwarf gorami, 2 pearl gorami and an albeno pleco
I've been looking at some Black bar endlers but not sure on compatability
There not on the bit on here where you create your tank so I'm stuck
Thanks x
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Actually there is a place on here where you can create your tank :)
Click on fish profiles in the menu at the top of the page, then click on any fish. Down at the bottom of the profile you will find the community creator; just enter your tank size and filter type, click 'save' then enter the fish you want by selecting them from the profiles.
You can save your virtual tank but you have to register separately from the forum to do this.
As for the fish you currently have:
golden barbs - temp 16 - 24oC, pH 6.0 to 8.0, hardness 36 - 357ppm (2 - 20 German deg)
mollies - temp 21 - 26C, pH 7.0 - 8.5, hardness 270 - 625ppm (15 to 35 Ge5man deg)
dwarf gouramis - temp 22 - 27C, pH 6.0 - 7.5, hardness 36 - 320ppm (2 - 18 deg)
pearl gouramis - temp 24 - 30C, pH 5.5 - 8.0, hardness 36 - 535ppm (2 - 30 deg)
As for the plec, you don't say what species it is, though I assume it is a bristlenose as they come in an albino form.
bristlenose - temp 21 - 26C, pH 5.5 - 7.5, hardness 18 - 268ppm (1 - 15 deg)
All that means is that apart from the mollies, the fish you have are fine in slightly soft acid water to slightly hard alkaline water. Mollies are the exception as they must have hard water to do well. If kept in soft water they become prone to disease. Endlers too like hard water though they will cope with softish water better than mollies.
The main problem with endlers is that they are small; males certainly are. And the pearl gouramis and mollies might be too big for them. They might well try to eat small fish, and even if they don't they could well stress the small fish.
Are there any other fish bigger than endlers that you like instead?
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I think he knows about the community creator Sue. The problem he has is that black bar endlers are not in the Fish Profiles.
The answer is to use the endlers that are in the profile. There are many different names for many different looking fish but they are all just different colourings of the same species and are interchangeable in the Community Creator.
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I used to have trouble finding them too as they are not showing if search and put in Endlers.
They are in Fish profiles, then livebearers then Endler.
Bit of a long winded way to do it but it was the only way I could search for them when I wanted them for my tank
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I think he knows about the community creator Sue. The problem he has is that black bar endlers are not in the Fish Profiles.
The answer is to use the endlers that are in the profile. There are many different names for many different looking fish but they are all just different colourings of the same species and are interchangeable in the Community Creator.
I did misunderstand :-[
Balck bars are just a colour form of endler. Like there are yellow platies and red platies.