Lucy_S
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hi Hi!
A while back I rescued some fish from craigslist - and got a 60x30x37cm (17 gallons, 66L) tank full of shrimp. We are now five weeks down the road, and the tank seems reasonably stable. I would like to adjust the stock to something better. Looking forward to your tips and thoughts:
I now have in the 60x30x37cm - which is heavily planted tank at 24 degrees Celsius - with Eheim 160 pickup filter + superfish 100 filter:
- 2 Honey gouramis (I would like to keep, M+F)
- 4 Red Phantoms (all males, displaying territorial behaviour)
- 3 Otocinclus
- 2 corydoras aeneus
- 50 fire shrimp (at least)
- 1 nerite snail
Can I switch to:
- 2 honey gouramis
- 3 Otocinclus
- 4 corys
- 5 phantoms (3V, 2M) ?
- 50 fire shrimps (max, get rid of some of them in the coming period)
- 1 nerite snail
Orrr do you advise me to do either tetras or corys? Or should I buy an bigger tank to properly keep these fish together?
And: Is a school of 5 phantoms enough (suppose I trade 2M for 3V), or do they need more animals? Can this species (in your opinion) thrive in 60cm at all?
I'm not quite sure of anything yet, so I'm looking forward to any suggestions!
A while back I rescued some fish from craigslist - and got a 60x30x37cm (17 gallons, 66L) tank full of shrimp. We are now five weeks down the road, and the tank seems reasonably stable. I would like to adjust the stock to something better. Looking forward to your tips and thoughts:
I now have in the 60x30x37cm - which is heavily planted tank at 24 degrees Celsius - with Eheim 160 pickup filter + superfish 100 filter:
- 2 Honey gouramis (I would like to keep, M+F)
- 4 Red Phantoms (all males, displaying territorial behaviour)
- 3 Otocinclus
- 2 corydoras aeneus
- 50 fire shrimp (at least)
- 1 nerite snail
Can I switch to:
- 2 honey gouramis
- 3 Otocinclus
- 4 corys
- 5 phantoms (3V, 2M) ?
- 50 fire shrimps (max, get rid of some of them in the coming period)
- 1 nerite snail
Orrr do you advise me to do either tetras or corys? Or should I buy an bigger tank to properly keep these fish together?
And: Is a school of 5 phantoms enough (suppose I trade 2M for 3V), or do they need more animals? Can this species (in your opinion) thrive in 60cm at all?
I'm not quite sure of anything yet, so I'm looking forward to any suggestions!