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I known most of you seasoned and experienced fish keepers have your own personal way you like to feed your community fish, whether it's once daily, twice daily, in the morning only, at night, different foods every day or same food every day - everyone has their own rhythm that works for their lives and their fish. I'm interested in hearing what your schedule is like! I'll go first! (Just keep in mind that I'm still tweaking) My 29g Community tank houses 16 Cardinal Tetra we call 'The Mafia', 6 Panda Corydoras we call 'The Crew', 5 Nerite Snails (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Bob), 8 Ghost Shrimp collectively called "The Invisibles" and 1 Grumpy but handsome Yellow Dragonscale Plakat Betta called 'Yuzu'. Mon -A.M.: Hikari Freeze Dried Daphnia - P.M.: Sera Vipachips Sinking waters (after lights out for Cories) Tue -A.M.: Xtreme Nano - P.M.: N/A Wed -A.M.: Hikari Vibrabites - P.M.: Sera Vipachips Sinking Wafers Thu -A.M.: Tetra Freeze Dried Blood Worms. - P.M.: N/A Fri -A.M.: Xtreme Nano - P.M.: Sera Vipachips Sinking Wafers. Sat -A.M.: Vibrabites - P.M.: N/A Sun- FASTING (Tank Maintenance) I did just purchase Repashy Community Plus and Sera O-Nip Nature Treat Tablets, so I'll have to figure out how I'll add those in and when... but, that's currently my feeding schedule! -
Hi all, I was planning on setting up a planted community tank and my initial thought was a school of Odessa Barbs and a school of Cory's, now I'm having my doubts. I started out and brought in the Odessa Barbs, and I'm second guessing the Cory pick. Cory's are universally known as the cleanup crew, but from the looks of it, these beautiful Odessa barbs have that area covered in spades, they're always scanning the bottom for food. I'm concerned it's going to be a never ending battle trying to get food to the Cory's. So now I'm thinking of changing it up to adding an upper mid level schooling fish that are fast enough to compete with the Odessa's. I'm thinking Silver Tip Tetras, Rummy Nose Tetras, or Pork Chop Rasboras. Am I off base in moving away from the Cory's, and if not, which of the above mentioned fish would make a good addition to the tank? Thanks for your help. -
A couple months later and I'm loving how everything is looking. It's not the most elaborate or uniquely aquascaped tank, but I love my puffer community tank. -
So I just bought my first "large" aquarium. 125 gallon. I was hoping you all could show me how you have yours set up to give me ideas. It will be a planted community aquarium. The fish already in my 60 gallon are getting an upgrade. Also any pro tips of don't do xyz because of ABC. Thanks in advance!- 9 replies
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I started my planted community tank in December (details below). Stole filter muck to kick off the tank. Plants doing well; melted plant leaves starting to come back. Gradually adding smaller fish over time. Water parameters seem reasonable. About a month ago, I was suddenly called out of town for over a week. I came back to an ichy Rasbora and an unwell (but never diagnosed) cherry barb. Both died in quarantine. Did 50% water change. Two weeks later another cherry barb showed puffy eyes, and died in quarentine. 25% water change. All other fish seemed "fine", added additional cherry barbs and rasboras. Cleaned filter over the weekend (squeezed it out in tank water removed from the tank). No soap, and I am probably too comfortable with slime to make any part of my aquarium squeaky clean. In the last four days, 4 hatched fish, 2 cherry barb, and 2 otocynclus fish have died. No obvious sign. What recomendation do you have? Thanks, Tank Details: 29 gallons dirt with gravel on top substrate Sponge filter 1 rock, 2 hunks of wood treated well water Animals: 6 hatchet fish 9 Danios 8 Rasboras 3 cory pandas 3 kuli loaches 3 otocynclus 4 shrimp 4 Nerite snails (and several more small snails) Plants: 2 Anubius 2 Cryps lots of Java fern Moss ball 2 banana plants 2 carpeting plants red sword 3 mosses Water Parameters: pH: 8.5 (stable) Amonia: 0 Nitrate: 0 (struggle to keep this up) Nitrite: 0 Hard water Temperature: 73 degrees These water parameters are rather stable.
