OK, so I have a heavily planted main tank (approx 25 US gallon) with 3 Glowlight danios (Celestichthys choprae) and I wanted to add more, so I bought a few more from pet shop and put them in my 7.5 gallon (ish) quarantine tank to QT them for a few weeks before I add them to the MT.
But there's an imposter! One of them is actually a Celestichthys erythromicron (dwarf emerald "rasbora" - close cousin of a CPD) that must have been housed in the same tank as the chopraes and got caught with them. It's tiny compared to the glowlights and so cute. I fell in love with it immediately (despite not deliberately trying to buy him/her) and now I'm having terrible multiple tank syndrome thoughts of setting up my empty 5.5 gallon as a species only tank and getting a few more of them.
Help! ?
In all seriousness though, can I keep a few of these micro danios in a 5.5 gallon? Has anyone successfully done this? I have a bowl with a bunch of guppy grass, and tons of excess moss in my MT, so I can put some of this into the 5.5 gal to make it cosy for them. I don't want to set up a larger tank if possible as I don't really have space for it, but the 5.5 gal is small enough to sit on my desk.
I really don't want to put the erythromicron in the main tank as there's also a rosy barb in there, and the danio is so small he may get eaten. Also the main tank's pH is always somewhere between 6.0 - 6.5 (big piece of driftwood, mature substrate, and lots of plants - I dont add anything to maintain this) and I read that these guys don't do well in acidic pH.
What would you do?
But there's an imposter! One of them is actually a Celestichthys erythromicron (dwarf emerald "rasbora" - close cousin of a CPD) that must have been housed in the same tank as the chopraes and got caught with them. It's tiny compared to the glowlights and so cute. I fell in love with it immediately (despite not deliberately trying to buy him/her) and now I'm having terrible multiple tank syndrome thoughts of setting up my empty 5.5 gallon as a species only tank and getting a few more of them.
Help! ?
In all seriousness though, can I keep a few of these micro danios in a 5.5 gallon? Has anyone successfully done this? I have a bowl with a bunch of guppy grass, and tons of excess moss in my MT, so I can put some of this into the 5.5 gal to make it cosy for them. I don't want to set up a larger tank if possible as I don't really have space for it, but the 5.5 gal is small enough to sit on my desk.
I really don't want to put the erythromicron in the main tank as there's also a rosy barb in there, and the danio is so small he may get eaten. Also the main tank's pH is always somewhere between 6.0 - 6.5 (big piece of driftwood, mature substrate, and lots of plants - I dont add anything to maintain this) and I read that these guys don't do well in acidic pH.
What would you do?