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What size tank would work for a ‘community’ tank?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by admin| 6 Comments

I don’t want a huge tank but one that can handle 10-15 different types of freshwater fish/invertebrates. I don’t have a real huge space to use either. The types of fish/invertebrates I’m considering are: shrimp,flag fish,rasbora,and platys. Those are just an example. Basically what I want is a tank with different types of beautiful,colorful fish. I want more than 10 gallons but under I guess 30. What size would work? Thanks for the help.

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Maybe only up to 10 different species then.

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Could this tropical freshwater community work?

Posted on September 4, 2011 by admin| 5 Comments

For a 20 gallon aquarium, I want:
1 Dwarf or Pea Puffer
2 Male Guppies
4 Female Guppies
5 Platies
4 Ghost Shrimp
8 Neon Tetras
3 Panda Cory Cats
Are there any fish I shouldn’t get? I know this tank will be way overstocked, I am going to moniter my Ammonia very closely and stay on top of the water changes. I have made a shopping cart at an online aquarium supply store and just to let you know how well set up this tank will be, I even bought a refugium for the livebearer fry, of which I plan to give almost all away to a pet store nearby. It will be a planted tank with a piece of driftwood and a big rock. Will this tank work? Please answer!
Pea Puffers are the only freshwater puffers. They also need to eat snails to keep their teeth ground down so they don’t get too long.
Oh, and my mom and I order our fish from liveaquaria.com. great site, we have never had an order we weren’t happy with. And there’s no way they would label a fish incorrectly.
The pleco would eat the leaves off the plants.

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Will this community work in brackish water?

Posted on August 20, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

I currently have the following in a freshwater tank, but would like to convert it to a brackish tank for my invertebrates:

1 Crowntail Betta
6 Zebra Danios
1 Silvertip Shark
1 Balloon Molly
1 Balloon Platy
2 Chinese Algae Eaters
12 Ghost Shrimp
1 Unidentified Crab (Possibly a Red Claw Crab)

I believe everything but the danios will be fine. Are there any other concerns? I am also considering adding:

Ropefish
Golden Wonder Killifish

Will these two types mix well in this existing community? Will they also like brackish water? Thanks in advance.
Forgot to mention….
Another potential candidate is an Archer Fish
Brackish Summary

N – Crowntail Betta
N – Zebra Danios
Y – Silvertip Shark
Y – Balloon Molly
? – Balloon Platy
? – Chinese Algae Eaters
Y – Ghost Shrimp
Y – Red Claw Crab
Y – Ropefish
Y – Golden Wonder Killifish
Y – Archer Fish

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What happened to the fish in this freshwater tank?

Posted on August 19, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

Found this posted on another online community. I am stumped but genuinely curious as to what happened; maybe the fish experts here can help.

I’ll summarize:
- 29 gallon freshwater tank
- fish got red sores on their mouths / disappear / sink to the bottom / “explode into giant cottonball things” / any combination of the above
- no dead bodies were seen, but there were no predators in the tank either
- the original poster added live shrimp, but they disappeared as well

So what do you think happened here? I’m really wondering about the “exploding into giant cottonball things” part… doesn’t sound like anything I’ve ever heard of.

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My 135 gallon freshwater community aquarium

Posted on August 15, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

This is a tank my girlfriend and I started up about a year ago. It has turned out pretty well. It has all live plants in it as well as over 68 fish!

Our freshwater friends and their planted worlds. It all began with a snapping turtle hatchling found on a golf course. Our collection: 90gal snapping turtle habitat with corkbark and basking condo- 9 month old common snapping turtle “Hawthorne”, rainbow shark, 2 marble sailfin plecos, 2 large goldfish, blueberry and strawberry tetras. 40 gal Zen Forest- platinum pearlscale angel, golden nugget pleco, blue phantom pleco, sidthimunki loach, mountain minnows, fire shrimp. 40 gal River Bottom- spotted raphael catfish, hillstream loach, lower rio xingu pleco, anthrax pleco, calico pleco, ghost shrimp.
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