Sauroposeidon
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I'm a bit OCD, so I did some research on how to stock, and now I dream of fish. I currently have an albino bristlenose pleco in another tank, which is a definite, and have my heart set on about 10 pygmy corydoras and a honey gourami. I feel as if I am slightly under stocked, which is where I want to be, but housing requirements for a bristlenose are still bothering me - some say 20 gal., some say 30. Since Ms. Whiskey is afraid of heights, and I want the thing to look like Fish Wonderland, I figured a 20 long would be the way to go. A 29 is getting too big for my apartment, and the top would get no use anyways, because I apparently have a thing against top level swimmers. The tank is heavily planted with a large piece of driftwood on one side and some rad dinosaur skull-caves on the other - plenty of nooks and crannies for both Ms. Whiskey and the cories. Ms. Whiskey is not a 6" monster going in with 1" babies by the way. She measures in a 2" right now, so the cories get to know her before she gets big, ugly, and cool.
So how does that sound? Also, I'm planning for a 6" pleco to be safe but have heard albino versions are considerably smaller. Any weigh-ins on that?
20 gal. long, heavily planted
AquaClear 30
T5 light fixture with Colormax and 6.7K lamp
Caribsea Tahitian Moon Sand
1 albino bristlenose pleco
10 pygmy corydoras
1 honey gourami
So how does that sound? Also, I'm planning for a 6" pleco to be safe but have heard albino versions are considerably smaller. Any weigh-ins on that?
20 gal. long, heavily planted
AquaClear 30
T5 light fixture with Colormax and 6.7K lamp
Caribsea Tahitian Moon Sand
1 albino bristlenose pleco
10 pygmy corydoras
1 honey gourami