YaBuddyHuddie
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Okay so I have a 29 gallon planted. I had an albino bristlenose pleco that passed. He was my cleaner upper. It was young though and obviously didn't do much yet. Right now I have 6 gold longfinned zebra danios. I've decided I don't like how active they are, it's just ridiculous. So would it be a good idea to trade them out for 6 albino cories? Here's what the stock is right now:
The 6 zebras
A pair of platies (Thursday going to LFS)
1 female black molly
1 male guppy (adding another male Thursday)
3 male endler's livebearers (1 cobra hybrid)
15+ cherry shrimp
I'm hoping my LFS will give me a trade in value for the platies and zebras, if so I'll be getting the cories.
So, I want my stock to look like this:
6 albino cories
2 male guppies
1 female Molly
A pair of swordtails
3 endlers
Cherry shrimp colony
(other various shrimp breeds and micro crabs)
And maybe, eventually, a school of celestial danios
Will this stock work? And even bigger question is, how do the cories do in cleaning things up? Do they eat algae? Are they hard to care for? I just don't wanna spend 20 bucks on another bristlenose. Will they outcompete my shrimp for food? Please help.
The 6 zebras
A pair of platies (Thursday going to LFS)
1 female black molly
1 male guppy (adding another male Thursday)
3 male endler's livebearers (1 cobra hybrid)
15+ cherry shrimp
I'm hoping my LFS will give me a trade in value for the platies and zebras, if so I'll be getting the cories.
So, I want my stock to look like this:
6 albino cories
2 male guppies
1 female Molly
A pair of swordtails
3 endlers
Cherry shrimp colony
(other various shrimp breeds and micro crabs)
And maybe, eventually, a school of celestial danios
Will this stock work? And even bigger question is, how do the cories do in cleaning things up? Do they eat algae? Are they hard to care for? I just don't wanna spend 20 bucks on another bristlenose. Will they outcompete my shrimp for food? Please help.