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Giant Danios are quite active. My Giant Danios occupy the upper third of my 55 gallon tank. I have not noticed much "smacking" like you are talking about, but whenever I feed them they push their way to the food and always take first dibs. I wouldn't say they attack or hit other fish, but my ...

Thank you for the explanation! I understand what you're saying about the mattenfilter and I have a better idea of how the river manifold system works.

Thanks again
Kurt

I can provide a picture, but probably not until tomorrow

I am in the process of converting my 75 gallon tank into a river tank. I currently have a mattenfilter on the far side of the tank with a pond pump that pulls the water through the filter and pumps water back into area of the tank where the fish will reside.

Rather than removing the mattenfilter ...

According to most books and experts that have advised me, you can keep one fish for every gallon that is one inch in length. Therefore, if you divide 57 by 3, you should be able to comfortably keep 19 fish in the tank. Hope this helps

I use oak leaves in my 30 gallon to give my Apistogrammas some cover. I only added about three, so because they do indeed lower the pH. If you want to add more, I think you are supposed to boil the leaves first, which should remove the acidity of the leaves. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong :D.