Which tank for Niwaella delicata
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:22 pm
Hi Gang, it's been a while since I posted. Still have a house full of loaches.
So I just got 3 Niwaella delicata, in a Q tank with a powerhead. They seem quite happy in there with some Rapashys from time to time, and I'll start some baby brine shrimp.
I'm trying to figure out which tank to put them in after the quarantine. Here are the choices, in order:
The river tank, 55 gal with two big powerheads and a manifold, rounded river rocks. This tank has had a stable population of sewelias with a cobalt goby and a sumo loach. We've lost a lot of smaller nice hillstreams in that tank, and I've come to the conclusion that the sewelias are hard to compete with. We've been hoping we might get some sewelia babies -- even have a little filter box with rocks in there, but I guess the sumo and goby eat the eggs and babies.
The other hillstream tank (40 long?), with a smaller powerhead. This wasn't going to be a hillstream tank, but it turns out that we can keep hillstream fish in there if they don't have to compete with the sewelias.
Both of the above get hard, slightly alkaline tapwater, and no heat really.
Then we've got the 120, which gets rainwater or RO water -- soft, acid, we keep it 76 degrees or so. In addition to a riot of rowdy loaches -- kubs, striata, rostrata, sids-- there are some garra doing quite well and some happy dithers: cardinals, danios, diamond tetras. This tank has been very stable. Any fish dying in there are likely going of old age.
The other two tanks, the khuli-nano tank and the CPD tank are probably not in the running here.
Any thoughts on the Niwaella delicata?
So I just got 3 Niwaella delicata, in a Q tank with a powerhead. They seem quite happy in there with some Rapashys from time to time, and I'll start some baby brine shrimp.
I'm trying to figure out which tank to put them in after the quarantine. Here are the choices, in order:
The river tank, 55 gal with two big powerheads and a manifold, rounded river rocks. This tank has had a stable population of sewelias with a cobalt goby and a sumo loach. We've lost a lot of smaller nice hillstreams in that tank, and I've come to the conclusion that the sewelias are hard to compete with. We've been hoping we might get some sewelia babies -- even have a little filter box with rocks in there, but I guess the sumo and goby eat the eggs and babies.
The other hillstream tank (40 long?), with a smaller powerhead. This wasn't going to be a hillstream tank, but it turns out that we can keep hillstream fish in there if they don't have to compete with the sewelias.
Both of the above get hard, slightly alkaline tapwater, and no heat really.
Then we've got the 120, which gets rainwater or RO water -- soft, acid, we keep it 76 degrees or so. In addition to a riot of rowdy loaches -- kubs, striata, rostrata, sids-- there are some garra doing quite well and some happy dithers: cardinals, danios, diamond tetras. This tank has been very stable. Any fish dying in there are likely going of old age.
The other two tanks, the khuli-nano tank and the CPD tank are probably not in the running here.
Any thoughts on the Niwaella delicata?