courtnee
Aquarium Advice Freak
I am getting ready to see if WW3 breaks out in my 55gl. (unplanted and very open tank with decorations for hiding and some plastic plants. I have 8 white skirt tetra already in the tank. I am tonight adding my Serpae Tetra I bought in a school of 6. This is what I want for my schools.
Now the white skirts are pretty mellow in the tank but from what I read the Serpae Tetra can be aggressive and nippy at times.
They better get along LOL this completes my stock in my tank (except my pleco but that is in a week or two). I dont want all just white skirts, I want some color so I went for another tetra with some color.
We will see how this goes.
I ended up stocking
3 Pictus cats
1 apple snail
8 white skirt tetra
6 Serpae Tetra
Soon I will just add
1 pleco (dwarf)
1 magenta apple snail
I am done.
Future plans...
I dont want 3 pictus cats in a 55gl long term. They are fine for now as they are babies but these are my pride and joy. I am getting MTS! I already have 55 and a 10gl.
In the next year I am going to get a 125gl and move all three spotted pictus cats to the large tank so they have plenty of room.
Update:
The Serpae Tetra are the "Little Guys" in the tank and at first the white tetra surrounded them all. Now the Serpae Tetra and White Tetra are schooling together. A little chasing around the tank but no fin nipping "yet".
The fun part are the spotted pictus. They have a boat decoration they like to hang out in. it is like the "Pictus Hut" 4 of the 6 Serpae Tetra swam to the "Pictus Hut" and tried to hide in there. The smallest pictus kept chasing them out. LOL The largest pictus I have was swimming around like crazy, they swim so fast in the "frenzy" he ran into a Serpae Tetra and knocked it into a corner. The Serpae Tetra escaped and was fine.
The "Pictus Hut" is being over taken by Serpae Tetra and the pictus have moved to the logs instead. How long will they tolerate that I wonder.
Now the white skirts are pretty mellow in the tank but from what I read the Serpae Tetra can be aggressive and nippy at times.
They better get along LOL this completes my stock in my tank (except my pleco but that is in a week or two). I dont want all just white skirts, I want some color so I went for another tetra with some color.
We will see how this goes.
I ended up stocking
3 Pictus cats
1 apple snail
8 white skirt tetra
6 Serpae Tetra
Soon I will just add
1 pleco (dwarf)
1 magenta apple snail
I am done.
Future plans...
I dont want 3 pictus cats in a 55gl long term. They are fine for now as they are babies but these are my pride and joy. I am getting MTS! I already have 55 and a 10gl.
In the next year I am going to get a 125gl and move all three spotted pictus cats to the large tank so they have plenty of room.
Update:
The Serpae Tetra are the "Little Guys" in the tank and at first the white tetra surrounded them all. Now the Serpae Tetra and White Tetra are schooling together. A little chasing around the tank but no fin nipping "yet".
The fun part are the spotted pictus. They have a boat decoration they like to hang out in. it is like the "Pictus Hut" 4 of the 6 Serpae Tetra swam to the "Pictus Hut" and tried to hide in there. The smallest pictus kept chasing them out. LOL The largest pictus I have was swimming around like crazy, they swim so fast in the "frenzy" he ran into a Serpae Tetra and knocked it into a corner. The Serpae Tetra escaped and was fine.
The "Pictus Hut" is being over taken by Serpae Tetra and the pictus have moved to the logs instead. How long will they tolerate that I wonder.