Our bristlenose plecos, cory cats, and zebra danios have all begun breeding recently. When the cories and danios laid eggs we didn’t have a spare tank to move them to, so they didn’t last long. Since then we’ve been given a 2.5 gallon tank that we’ve deemed the nursery.
We plan to move eggs/babies to the nursery until they’re big enough for new homes (there are baby bristles in there currently), but since we’re not sure when eggs will be laid (we do nothing to induce breeding, it seems to happen at random), we don’t know if the tank tank will be empty for weeks, months, or maybe even a year. We’d like to keep it cycled so it’s always available.
Which leads me to my ultimate question, should we keep fish in the tank as permanent resident(s) to keep it cycled? If so, what would be appropriate for such a small tank?
Thank you for any suggestions!
We plan to move eggs/babies to the nursery until they’re big enough for new homes (there are baby bristles in there currently), but since we’re not sure when eggs will be laid (we do nothing to induce breeding, it seems to happen at random), we don’t know if the tank tank will be empty for weeks, months, or maybe even a year. We’d like to keep it cycled so it’s always available.
Which leads me to my ultimate question, should we keep fish in the tank as permanent resident(s) to keep it cycled? If so, what would be appropriate for such a small tank?
Thank you for any suggestions!