Changing tank configuration- Drawing out the clowns
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:15 pm
I recently posted on this forum re my 135 gallon. I will not go through the whole story again but the bottom line is that I have 12 clown loaches ranging from 2-4 inch 4 severums and 2 parrots. Last week I purchased another tank and, once its cycled I am planning to move the SA cichild and the parrots to the new tank.
The problem is that once I do that my tank may look desertedjavascript:emoticon(':?')... The clowns have been with me for about a month now, although they have settled nicely they hide most of the day among the many plants and driftwood, basically, I don’t see enough of them... therefore I want to introduce some schooling fishes to try and draw the clowns out and I was thinking of 2 possibilities; The first are the Silver dollars which seem to be a popular combo with clowns and the second is, more unusual, a school of torpedo barbs.
Any suggestions or ideas
The problem is that once I do that my tank may look desertedjavascript:emoticon(':?')... The clowns have been with me for about a month now, although they have settled nicely they hide most of the day among the many plants and driftwood, basically, I don’t see enough of them... therefore I want to introduce some schooling fishes to try and draw the clowns out and I was thinking of 2 possibilities; The first are the Silver dollars which seem to be a popular combo with clowns and the second is, more unusual, a school of torpedo barbs.
Any suggestions or ideas