How to stockto maintain BB on a freshly cycled tank

HI all,

I am finally ready to stock. But I am a bit confused about how to do it. I have a 65 gallon and a 10 gallon that I have been doing a fishless cycle on and have been dosing with ammonia to 3ppm through the process. after 7 weeks or so I am finally cycled. 3ppm of ammonia completely processed in 24 hours.

I want to start stocking now but don't want to put in a full compliment of fish all at once. For the 65 gallon I was thinking of 10 sterbaI cories and 8 to 10 congo tetras.

The ten gallon is a bit more complicated. I am going for a shrimp tank but I want the tank to "season" a bit more. I was told a mature tank is better for introducing shrimp. My thought was a school of 8 ember tetras that I would move to the 65 gallon tank after a few months before introducing shrimp.

So any thoughts on this plan? I am open to any and all suggestions!

John

 

For your shrimp tank stocking it with anything you plan to add to your 65g at a later date will be fine. They have a very small bioload.

Personally what I would do is use your 10 gallon as a qt tank until your main tank is fully stocked and then use it as a shrimp.tank. this way your keeping the bacteria alive and also making sure your not adding any diseases or parasites to your main tank

 

For the 65 I would start with either the Cories or the Tetras but not both, wait a few days, make sure ammonia and nitrites look good before adding the other fish.

The plan for the 10 gallon should be fine.

 

Thank you both for the ideas! I will do the corys first. I really like the idea of the 10 gallon as a QT tank!

 

New Stocking Plan




So here is the new stocking plan for our 65 gallon. Hoping to put the emerald corys Then add the serpaes in a few days.