First post on the forum for me!
So my latest tank is a heavily planted, dirted, Fluval Flex 32.5 with a group of 13 rainbow shiners. My original idea was to include some other native species (I’m in south east Georgia) but I don’t really want to get into the live-food feeding that the Pygmy sunfish (elassoma) require. (My axolotl already requires a worm farm. He’s as complex in feeding as I’d like to get. Plus my wife isn’t a fish person and if she’s going to do any feeding if I happen to be sick or out of town, it needs to be pretty simple. But she’s a good sport and hasn’t minded the dozen tanks that suddenly appeared in our house when I took up the hobby during the pandemic, but she has drawn her line 🤣)
The rainbow shiners prefer a cooler water. I’ve watched all the Co-Op vids listing the cold water fish.
So far panda corys and hill stream loaches are on my short list. I’m really trying to figure out a “centerpiece” fish.
I’d love to hear any ideas you have.
Thanks,
Julie
