Rbacchiega

Basics:

10 US Gallons
Whisper 30 internal filter (fit for 20 gallon tanks)
15 lbs natural river rock
50 Watt submersable heater
CO2 system
2 compact flourescent 50/50 bulbs by corallife.

Plants:
1 wendetti "green"
1 red ludwigia
2 bunches dwarf swords
1 bunch chain sword
1 bit of some sort of other ground thinger (had it so long, forgot what its called)
driftwood

Fish:
1 zebra danio (getting 3 or 4 more)
2 bamboo shrimp
2 corydora sterbai
1 yo yo loach

adding 2 or 3 otto cats.

25% water change done every 10-14 days, adding nothing but prime and iron supliment.

COBettaCouple

beautiful and I LOVE that fish!

jsalemi

Yea, yo-yo's are great. Even though my 56g is primarily a Central/South America tank, I could use a yo-yo or 3 to keep the snails under control. Unfortunately, the only place that consistently has them around here is PetSmart, and I refuse to buy fish at the one nearest to me anymore. So I'll have to go a bit to another one to get some.

COBettaCouple

I have yet to find them in Denver. But they'd get too big for most of our tanks anyways and I would wonder how they'd do with Julies and Angels in the Cichlids tank.

Rbacchiega

they should get along fine with the juliis, and I don't see any problem with the angels either. That is, unless you have some mutant terrorist corycats.

COBettaCouple

Julidochromis marlieri (Julies) not Julii cories, actually.

jsalemi

From what I read about yo-yos, they get along fine with other bottom feeders, and only sometimes get aggressive towards smaller fish (like the poor, picked-on neons ). Anything from a mid-size tetra up should be fine with them.

Rbacchiega

wooops. read that wrong. Either way, they should still be alright together

COBettaCouple

lol, no problem. they sound the same. Our Julies are still pretty young and haven't formed a breeding pair yet, but when they do we'll just have 2 Julies and our 1 angel (2 when we find a good female for him) in a 30g tall tank. The cichlids and yoyos have adult sizes of about 6" so 1 or 2 would be the most that I could fit in the tank I think. Any opinions? Is the 30g tall big enough for 2 Julies, 2 Angels and 2 Yoyos?

Rbacchiega

what kind of filter system are you running? I tend to get a filter bigger than needed and then that way have a little more leniency in terms of stocking. Not hugely over the limit, but a few extra inches per se

COBettaCouple

That's the tank that a friend gave us, so we have the stand, filter, etc that it came with. All we've replaced as far as hardware goes is the tube since we wanted a better one for the cichlids. They were in & out of fishkeeping pretty quick and you wouldn't believe how dirty the tank was inside. It had been kept in a hot garage during the summer in florida with nothing running and unbelieveable, 2 plecos and a male platy were still alive in it. Anyway, he had no manuals, but I'm pretty sure it's the Tetra Whisper Power Filter 60 (330 GPH). I've also got a sponge filter in there that I added but that was really mostly for cycling the tank. Funny enough, I'll often see a Julie or 2 hanging out on the sponge so I've just left it in there for them.

zzfive69

I have one but he likes to hide for a few days then comes out to eat.

Wyoming_Bound

Thats a very nice tank!