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A few days ago I got a 9 gallon tank for free. Now I'm starting to set it up, although I'm not finished yet - busy schedule.
I am planning to keep a small school of Corydoras trilineatus there. I know that they supposed to have at least 10 gallons, but it's just 1 gallon short, so I'm thinking, as long as it's not heavily stocked, they should be fine. The only other fish I'm keeping with them will be a single endler. I bought it yesterday, it has a beautiful metalic-neon cerulean blue colour. Does anyone know which variety it is - I don't find this exact look when I google endler breeds. I named him Zaphod. He's hard to take pictures of, because he's so active.


I'm also planning to add some blue Neocaridinas, and some pink ramshorn snails. If they breed to the level that it affects bioload, I'll just dump the snails to my 30 gal with barbs who love to eat them, and sell the surplus shrimp.
The scape is done with this intended stocking in mind. Substrate is dark sand, and some plant substrate (also fine structure, in case it gets dug up) underneath. Hardscape is a single but rather large piece of Mopani wood I fished out of my big tank, with African fern already grown all over it. I glued a pleco cave to its base for stability. I'm thinking of adding an emersed plant to its top, maybe a papyrus or peace lilly. I made a moss wall, which will give a lot of plant coverage without using up open substrate that cories prefer. Of course it doesn't look good at all at the moment, I hope the moss grows out soon enough. I will still plant some plants in the back and the sides though. I've ordered quite a lot of them, but I start to suspect I might have ordered too much for this volume - I guess I'll be planting some in my big tank, there's some empty space left there after I took that Mopani out. While I wait for these plants to arrive, I've put some hornswort and water lettuce as a sort of "placeholder" plants, to prevent algae taking over. I also got some pennywort as a bonus with my moss, and I still havent figured out how am I supposed to plant it so it looks good, and not messy like right now
I don't think I'll have much trouble cycling it, because I have 2 filters - external and internal - in my big tank, so when I bought an internal filter for the small tank, I simply switched them, putting the cycled one in the new tank and the new filter to the old tank where it can cycle for a couple of weeks, and then I'll switch them back.


I am planning to keep a small school of Corydoras trilineatus there. I know that they supposed to have at least 10 gallons, but it's just 1 gallon short, so I'm thinking, as long as it's not heavily stocked, they should be fine. The only other fish I'm keeping with them will be a single endler. I bought it yesterday, it has a beautiful metalic-neon cerulean blue colour. Does anyone know which variety it is - I don't find this exact look when I google endler breeds. I named him Zaphod. He's hard to take pictures of, because he's so active.


I'm also planning to add some blue Neocaridinas, and some pink ramshorn snails. If they breed to the level that it affects bioload, I'll just dump the snails to my 30 gal with barbs who love to eat them, and sell the surplus shrimp.
The scape is done with this intended stocking in mind. Substrate is dark sand, and some plant substrate (also fine structure, in case it gets dug up) underneath. Hardscape is a single but rather large piece of Mopani wood I fished out of my big tank, with African fern already grown all over it. I glued a pleco cave to its base for stability. I'm thinking of adding an emersed plant to its top, maybe a papyrus or peace lilly. I made a moss wall, which will give a lot of plant coverage without using up open substrate that cories prefer. Of course it doesn't look good at all at the moment, I hope the moss grows out soon enough. I will still plant some plants in the back and the sides though. I've ordered quite a lot of them, but I start to suspect I might have ordered too much for this volume - I guess I'll be planting some in my big tank, there's some empty space left there after I took that Mopani out. While I wait for these plants to arrive, I've put some hornswort and water lettuce as a sort of "placeholder" plants, to prevent algae taking over. I also got some pennywort as a bonus with my moss, and I still havent figured out how am I supposed to plant it so it looks good, and not messy like right now
I don't think I'll have much trouble cycling it, because I have 2 filters - external and internal - in my big tank, so when I bought an internal filter for the small tank, I simply switched them, putting the cycled one in the new tank and the new filter to the old tank where it can cycle for a couple of weeks, and then I'll switch them back.

