New tank - some thoughts!
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New tank - some thoughts!
Hi everyone, first time here. Have been trolling around here for quite a while looking at everyone's beautiful loaches.
Now I'd like to have some of your thoughts about my current project:
It's a 345 ish Liter tank (91.2 gallon), which measures : 138 cm long, 61cm deep and quite narrow, 41 cm.
My thoughts are to have 7 ish clown loaches, starting out with very small ones (3-5 cm), I do realize they will outgrow my tank, but that's not in a few years still so. These fish are the reason I started this project, they're so awesome! But if you think they wouldn't work at all, what would be the other "loach choice"?
3x Crossocheilus oblongus, don't know the english common name for them, sorry
and around 15-20 tiger barbs.
Will this work out? And do you have any ideas how to decorate such a "tall" aquarium? What plants etc.? I do have 3 big roots going in, covering almost half the aquarium lenght, and I think it'll look awesome. But I still have NO idea what plants that would look good in it.
I'll ofcourse upload pictures when I'm getting started. I have the tank already, but awaiting the bench which has been delayed for 3 weeks due to the odd measurements of my tank.
Regards
Johan
Now I'd like to have some of your thoughts about my current project:
It's a 345 ish Liter tank (91.2 gallon), which measures : 138 cm long, 61cm deep and quite narrow, 41 cm.
My thoughts are to have 7 ish clown loaches, starting out with very small ones (3-5 cm), I do realize they will outgrow my tank, but that's not in a few years still so. These fish are the reason I started this project, they're so awesome! But if you think they wouldn't work at all, what would be the other "loach choice"?
3x Crossocheilus oblongus, don't know the english common name for them, sorry
and around 15-20 tiger barbs.
Will this work out? And do you have any ideas how to decorate such a "tall" aquarium? What plants etc.? I do have 3 big roots going in, covering almost half the aquarium lenght, and I think it'll look awesome. But I still have NO idea what plants that would look good in it.
I'll ofcourse upload pictures when I'm getting started. I have the tank already, but awaiting the bench which has been delayed for 3 weeks due to the odd measurements of my tank.
Regards
Johan
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hello Johanski and welcome
i am not good at plants and loaches. i have found java fern and java moss to be safe with my yoyos, everything else has failed or been destroyed. a big vallis species would look nice, i think, that is if the loaches dont wreck it.
the narrowness of your tank could cause you problems with the clowns in the future, but so as long as know you really can have a bigger thank in the future, it will probably be OK.
yoyos and kubotai are both very pretty, and rostrata, and they are well behaved too. Striata are great and will stay smaller
i hope it all goes well for you
i am not good at plants and loaches. i have found java fern and java moss to be safe with my yoyos, everything else has failed or been destroyed. a big vallis species would look nice, i think, that is if the loaches dont wreck it.
the narrowness of your tank could cause you problems with the clowns in the future, but so as long as know you really can have a bigger thank in the future, it will probably be OK.
yoyos and kubotai are both very pretty, and rostrata, and they are well behaved too. Striata are great and will stay smaller
i hope it all goes well for you
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Thanks for your answer. I've actually changed my plans and I'm going with a school of Kubotai instead of the clowns. A few days back I started my tank, today I added 10 tiger barbs to it.
It's supposed to have an asian feel to it, I know the plants look kinda weak atm but i only put them down a few days back so ^^ Also adding more, thicker bamboo in the right corner.
Do tell me what you think, I'm not very good at decorating but I did my best
It's supposed to have an asian feel to it, I know the plants look kinda weak atm but i only put them down a few days back so ^^ Also adding more, thicker bamboo in the right corner.
Do tell me what you think, I'm not very good at decorating but I did my best
Thanks, thanks!
I added 10 tiger barbs today, and god they were stressed out in the start, eventhough I did it right ( I think ):
Put the bag they were in into the water, after about 10 minutes i added some aquarium water to the bag, and did that 3 times with 5 minutes in between. After that I poured the water through a landing net, then I let the fish out in the tank, let the light remain off for 30 minutes and then light it.
After a few hours they stopped being stressed, and they then realized they're the only fish in the tank, so they started fighting about the territory. Two of them went under a root and "kissed" and swimmed around in circles, changing colours. Hillarious fishes!!
I can't wait til next month when I get to add my Kubotais
More pictures tomorrow, if the fish let me (They're so quick! )
Regards
Johan
I added 10 tiger barbs today, and god they were stressed out in the start, eventhough I did it right ( I think ):
Put the bag they were in into the water, after about 10 minutes i added some aquarium water to the bag, and did that 3 times with 5 minutes in between. After that I poured the water through a landing net, then I let the fish out in the tank, let the light remain off for 30 minutes and then light it.
After a few hours they stopped being stressed, and they then realized they're the only fish in the tank, so they started fighting about the territory. Two of them went under a root and "kissed" and swimmed around in circles, changing colours. Hillarious fishes!!
I can't wait til next month when I get to add my Kubotais
More pictures tomorrow, if the fish let me (They're so quick! )
Regards
Johan
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wow, that is a beautifull tank. please can you give us more pictures as it develops?
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Thank you all!
Ofcourse I will give more pictures as it develops, for the moment I just hope my plants will grow and become nice.
The lights I use is:
2x 40w aqua-glo with reflectors on both.
2x 35w Hallogen spotlights.
And I also use EasyLife's Easycarbo / profito.
Today is day two with my tigerbarbs, they're alot safer and all are swimming around. They even divide over the tank, probably because they're the only fish there. Occasionally they do form groups though
Can't wait til' there's more fish in there to see how they group up nicely.
I'm from Sweden btw
Regards
Johan
Ofcourse I will give more pictures as it develops, for the moment I just hope my plants will grow and become nice.
The lights I use is:
2x 40w aqua-glo with reflectors on both.
2x 35w Hallogen spotlights.
And I also use EasyLife's Easycarbo / profito.
Today is day two with my tigerbarbs, they're alot safer and all are swimming around. They even divide over the tank, probably because they're the only fish there. Occasionally they do form groups though
Can't wait til' there's more fish in there to see how they group up nicely.
I'm from Sweden btw
Regards
Johan
I got a decent shot of one of my tigerbarbs, it's got some nice colouration just after the fight with the other big one
Also took a picture a few days ago when my malaysian burrowing snail thingies had a blast.
Enjoy
EDIT:
New, better sized photos on next page so I remove these.
Also took a picture a few days ago when my malaysian burrowing snail thingies had a blast.
Enjoy
EDIT:
New, better sized photos on next page so I remove these.
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