Cold water fish suggestions
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Cold water fish suggestions
Hi all. I threw together a cold water tank a couple of months ago for some cold water river fish. The tank is currently holding around 15C although it'll probably go a bit higher in summer. Anyway, the rocks are getting a covering a biofilm and I was wondering if there were any fish people could think of that would be suitable who would graze on it. Garras and hillstream loaches I think probably have a slightly higher temperature range than I need in this tank, so I'm a little stumped.
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Re: Cold water fish suggestions
Well, you are probably looking at temperate zone fish, not tropicals.
The only site I know that can do a temperature search for you is planet catfish. Here are the results for 10*C min to 18*C max. I do not think any of these are algae eaters (Loricariads)
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/se ... distr_id=0
Fish Base can do a search for fish from different countries, and then you would have to do some research to find out what they eat and what sort of temperature they live in. Here is one possible result, a North American native fish, though this one might get a bit too large...
http://www.fishbase.org/Country/Country ... 40&id=2975
The only site I know that can do a temperature search for you is planet catfish. Here are the results for 10*C min to 18*C max. I do not think any of these are algae eaters (Loricariads)
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/se ... distr_id=0
Fish Base can do a search for fish from different countries, and then you would have to do some research to find out what they eat and what sort of temperature they live in. Here is one possible result, a North American native fish, though this one might get a bit too large...
http://www.fishbase.org/Country/Country ... 40&id=2975
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Re: Cold water fish suggestions
Certain cyprinids will graze on aufwuchs, including species of Pimephales (fatheads, rosy reds) and Chrosomus (red-bellied dace). I don't know if you can get these in your country. They're not efficient cleaners like loricariids, but they keep it in check.
Probably your best option would be snails if they are compatible with your stock. If your fish eat thin-shelled species like physids and planorbids, try pleurocerids (freshwater periwinkles) or neritids.
Probably your best option would be snails if they are compatible with your stock. If your fish eat thin-shelled species like physids and planorbids, try pleurocerids (freshwater periwinkles) or neritids.
Re: Cold water fish suggestions
As already mentioned, the rosy reds would work and there is always white clouds - I think rosy reds are good to 10c or so. The challenge with them is that they've been treated as feeders, so they often aren't in great health when you get them.
They are colourful though.
They are colourful though.
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