libertybelle
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I just moved and in the process upgraded my 55 to a 75 gallon and am thinking about filling out the schools a bit more and maybe adding something but I'm not really sure...
It's only moderately planted at the moment because I replaced substrate and replanted. It will eventually be pretty heavily planted. I'll post a picture in a comment, a little later.
Here's what it looks like right now:
12 skirt tetras
5 tiger barbs
8 rummy nose tetras
7 adult guppies
5 panda cories
3 peppered corries (I think…. They were given to me as adults so I’m not completely sure)
4 otos
2 nerite snails
quite a few young mystery snails and a few whisker shrimp.
The guppies will be moving back to the guppy tank (they got moved as a place to put them while I was setting up the 29g guppy tank in the new house. The barbs chased them around for the first couple days but actually completely ignore them now so I haven't been in a rush to move them back. (The barbs are the one school I'm not sure I want to add to. The group I have don't seem to bother the other inhabitants but they are nippy enough that I might eventually just give them away locally.)
I'm thinking of filling out the schools to look more like which puts me at something like 80% according to aqadvisor
14 skirt tetras (mixture of different colored glofish, white and black skirts for my toddler's enjoyment!)
5 tiger barbs
15 rummy nose tetras
6 panda cories
6 peppered corries
6 otos
2 nerite snails
A few mystery snails and whisker shrimp.
What do you guys think? Any other ideas for 'finishing off' the tank. The barbs and skirts are nippers and the rummies stay small which limits my possible additions.
It's only moderately planted at the moment because I replaced substrate and replanted. It will eventually be pretty heavily planted. I'll post a picture in a comment, a little later.
Here's what it looks like right now:
12 skirt tetras
5 tiger barbs
8 rummy nose tetras
7 adult guppies
5 panda cories
3 peppered corries (I think…. They were given to me as adults so I’m not completely sure)
4 otos
2 nerite snails
quite a few young mystery snails and a few whisker shrimp.
The guppies will be moving back to the guppy tank (they got moved as a place to put them while I was setting up the 29g guppy tank in the new house. The barbs chased them around for the first couple days but actually completely ignore them now so I haven't been in a rush to move them back. (The barbs are the one school I'm not sure I want to add to. The group I have don't seem to bother the other inhabitants but they are nippy enough that I might eventually just give them away locally.)
I'm thinking of filling out the schools to look more like which puts me at something like 80% according to aqadvisor
14 skirt tetras (mixture of different colored glofish, white and black skirts for my toddler's enjoyment!)
5 tiger barbs
15 rummy nose tetras
6 panda cories
6 peppered corries
6 otos
2 nerite snails
A few mystery snails and whisker shrimp.
What do you guys think? Any other ideas for 'finishing off' the tank. The barbs and skirts are nippers and the rummies stay small which limits my possible additions.