grendelcat
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Jun 19, 2006
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I'm a newbie so pls excuse missing relevancy . . . but here's the thing.
I have a 35 Gallon and a 65 Gallon stocked thusly:
35 Gallon
2 Tiger Oscars
2 Green Terrors
1 Kissing Gourami
1 Choclolate Plec
(Believe it or not this tank has achieved equilibrium - in a sense that nobody kills anybody at this point . . .)
65 Gallon (Green Tank with multiple live plants)
13 Glo-Light Tetras
4 Black Phantom Tetras
3 Rainbow Sharks (Babies - yeah I know they can't all stay here)
1 Bala Shark (6 inches and counting . . .)
1 Dwarf Blue Gourami
2 Blue Danios
9 Guppies
4 Cory Cats
1 Albino African Clawed Frog
2 Dwarf Frogs (Still crazy after all this time . . . living with the African)
2 Myster Snails
1 Very old an brainskinned looking Pleco
So here's the question.
I know I need to expand my MTS. I need to split up this crew and have some decently stocked tanks. I also really would like to get some Barbs and possibly other Cichlids in the overall crew.
I'm getting ready to buy a 120+ Gallon tank and am considering possibilities about how to split this up among 3 tanks - also having at least 2 of the tanks. The idea being to have a safish tank that guppy fry might live in, a medium tank for barbish varieties plus maybe the African Clawed Frog and a War tank for Oscars, Green Terrors, Insanely evil Kissing Gourami's and a tuff enough pleco to deal with it.
I am open to suggestions involving new fish definitely. But mostly I'm looking for a sensible approach to splitting things out in a 3 tier tank system so that death and strife are minimized (Other than excess guppies taking the high road to meet the Terrors and Oscars)
All ideas welcome.
I have a 35 Gallon and a 65 Gallon stocked thusly:
35 Gallon
2 Tiger Oscars
2 Green Terrors
1 Kissing Gourami
1 Choclolate Plec
(Believe it or not this tank has achieved equilibrium - in a sense that nobody kills anybody at this point . . .)
65 Gallon (Green Tank with multiple live plants)
13 Glo-Light Tetras
4 Black Phantom Tetras
3 Rainbow Sharks (Babies - yeah I know they can't all stay here)
1 Bala Shark (6 inches and counting . . .)
1 Dwarf Blue Gourami
2 Blue Danios
9 Guppies
4 Cory Cats
1 Albino African Clawed Frog
2 Dwarf Frogs (Still crazy after all this time . . . living with the African)
2 Myster Snails
1 Very old an brainskinned looking Pleco
So here's the question.
I know I need to expand my MTS. I need to split up this crew and have some decently stocked tanks. I also really would like to get some Barbs and possibly other Cichlids in the overall crew.
I'm getting ready to buy a 120+ Gallon tank and am considering possibilities about how to split this up among 3 tanks - also having at least 2 of the tanks. The idea being to have a safish tank that guppy fry might live in, a medium tank for barbish varieties plus maybe the African Clawed Frog and a War tank for Oscars, Green Terrors, Insanely evil Kissing Gourami's and a tuff enough pleco to deal with it.
I am open to suggestions involving new fish definitely. But mostly I'm looking for a sensible approach to splitting things out in a 3 tier tank system so that death and strife are minimized (Other than excess guppies taking the high road to meet the Terrors and Oscars)
All ideas welcome.