mistersprinkles
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The babies, yes. Is that such a bad thing? It keeps the population from getting out of control.
Read my last post on the last page. I made it at the same time as you, and you missed it.
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The babies, yes. Is that such a bad thing? It keeps the population from getting out of control.
Read my last post on the last page. I made it at the same time as you, and you missed it.
mistersprinkles
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That ought to work. Keep the Rams to 1m 1f though. Tank's too small. Don't go nuts though. That sounds like enough fish to me. Do you really want to mix guppies mollies and platys? That's a visually noisy tank to me. I'd just pick ONE.
With livebearers try to keep it to 3f to every 1m or the males harass the females too much.
If you take good enough care of the fish you should be able to breed everything. The fry won't likely survive in that community tank though. The livebearers would gradually pick off all the angel or ram fry. Angels and rams have much smaller young than livebearers do, so the young are easy for tiny fish like livebearers to eat.
But you'll get to see the breeding behavior, which is the most interesting part.
If you want to actually BREED fish and keep the babies, consider keeping a single species. If you just had a pair of angels, you could breed them and not worry about the young getting eaten.
Noisy?? So my stocking list will be fine? i really want to mix those livebearers , ok
I think you need to zone in on what you really want. You keep planning something, then changing your mind. If you want to breed angels it will be a tank with only the angels in it. If you want a community tank I wouldn't get 2 angels in a 30 in case they did breed. You'd be better off with just one as a centerpiece and a pair of rams. Then you can fill in the rest with tetras or live bearers and maybe some catfish. But decide what you want then let us know, liveaquaria has a great list of fw fish and minimum tank sizes.
mistersprinkles
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How about TWO species of livebearer. Otherwise you're going to have too many fish.
How's
1 angelfish
3f 1m platy
3f 1m guppy
pair of rams
bushynose pleco
not 2 angelswhat could go instead of rams
Bristlenoses are awesome! You could do a pair of dwarf gouramis instead.
mistersprinkles
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Yup pair of dwarf or honey gouramis would work.
The pleco is there mainly for entertainment. It'll eat SOME algae but not that much.
BTW dont know where you are in the UK but I suggest MAIDENHEAD AQUATICS if you can find one. Best fish stores out there.
entertainment haha? oh, any invertebrates i can keep? so whats the stocking list then youre thinking?
mistersprinkles
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Rabbit snail, shrimp (cherry, ghost, amano). The stocking list you came up with will be ok you can go with that.
Pets at home? Is that a store? No, Maidenhead Aquatics. They're in the UK
mistersprinkles
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ya. People say the Angel will eat the shrimp but I've done it with a lot of shrimp and a lot of Angels and it never happened. Angel MIGHT eat the tiniest of the shrimp. So might the Bolivian Rams. The larger Amano shrimp, though less colourful, might be a better choice.
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