Recent content by asheville_finn

thanks, I'll look into those other species of display fish. I'll try another oto or 2 but over the months I've tried to keep 3 seems like the tank only wants one for now, since 2 wold inevitably die off. I think there may not have been enough algae to go around, and they wouldn't take veg or...

I have a well planted 20 gal tank with he following... 2 black neon tetra 2 upside down catfish 9 neon tetra 1 oto 2 bristle nosed pleco 5 - 10 ghost shrimp at a given time The tank's been thriving with regular water changes and care not to overfeed. I wanted to add another small school of...

My very cool Blue-Mystery snail crawled into a cave and looks like he may be stuck. Has anyone known this to happen? can they back up? It'd be easy enough to dismantle the cave but there is an entire root system woven through it and its really cool as is. Thinking of giving him a couple days...

Advice i'd recieved when I set up my 20 gallon planted tank was a max of 1 oto per 5 gallons as a general rule. also, that they are best at (generally speaking) keeping plants, rocks, and wood free of algae, but not the strongest choice to hit the glass. That said I watch mine eat of the glass...

I recetly set up a 20 gallon in the family room. We got a pictus cat, upside down cat, 2 black neon tetras. we have some anacris in there too. We just changed to this setup a few days ago, before this we had 3 huge goldfish that were pretty smelly and dirty, so we took them to the aquarium...