Kevin's Fish Tanks

29 gallon planted aquarium
1 paradise fish (male)
2 pearl gouramis
1 leopard cory
1 spotted cory
1 green cory
1 rainbow shark
1 angelicus botia

5 gallon Eclipse
1 male Crowntail Betta

5 gallon Eclipse
1 male Double-Ray Combtail Betta
...maybe an oto or 2 later

 

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how about otos & corys for the cleaning crew?

 

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do otos or corys do better with overall cleaning...and which species should I try to get?

 

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do otos or corys do better with overall cleaning...and which species should I try to get?

corys handle a lot of the cleaning along the bottom and otos love to eat algae. I think any species of either would do well, but you can check out all of them at planet catfish.

 

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new pics...just click on the pic in my signature, and it should allow you to see a slideshow ;D

or you can look at them one at a time...if they aren't too BIG

Kevin

 

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Cool. love the slideshow.

 

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Very very nice.
Tom

 

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here are some pics of my 5 gallon

 

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Nice tank!

 

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thanks!

 

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u should get 2 corry pepered cats there awsome so koool

 

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I am taking the pirate ship out of my 29 gal. and putting it in my betta tank
and will be adding this rock formation to my community tank
(I am boiling it right now, should have it in by tommorrow evening, will post pics then)

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TANK UPDATE

I went to have my water tested today, results:
ammonia: 2.0 (doing water change and adding prime)
nitrite:0.0
nitrate:0.0
Ph:7.6
as soon as I can get my ammonia levels down, I will be getting my new fish
they had some brand new corydora zygatus that I will be getting a 4 fish group of

 

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Can't wait to see the pics!!!

 

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Looks good! The rock formation will be a great addition.

 

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Here are the pics of the rocks in my 29 gal. and ship in my 5 gal.

went to the lfs today...they have otos! i'm gonna get 2 of those as soon as the 5 gal. has cycled

do you think that a lonely leopard cory at my lfs would like to join a group of 3-4 zygatus corys?

 

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29 gallon regular ;D
2 young paradise fish (1 male, 1 female)
1 young blue gourami (female)

5 gallon Eclipse
cycling

how about tiger barbs?

 

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good idea! lets add tiger barbs and have them nip at my big fish...which will eventually kill them! that's a good idea I think I'll do that next time i'm trying to get rid of fish

 

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good idea! lets add tiger barbs and have them nip at my big fish...which will eventually kill them! that's a good idea I think I'll do that next time i'm trying to get rid of fish

u must be lying tigers only do that if they are being bothered

 

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no. tigers are very aggressive with fish who have big colorful fins

 

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no. tigers are very aggressive with fish who have big colorful fins

thaat never happened with me and my colorful fish

 

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Fish To Add: 3 black-banded corys, 1 leopard cory
maybe a rainbow shark later...just depends

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well, I got my leopard cory and 2 black-banded corys today, they are acclimating right now

I will post pics l8er 2nite

 

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cool, can't wait to see them.

 

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now i'm ****...my blue g. has been harassing the new corys all night...i'm gonna turn her in as soon as I get back from va. what can I do to stop this aggression, I never knew that anything would attack a cory like that...she swims throught the plants looking for them...its a game to her

i'm probably gonna wake up to 3 near death corys 'cause of stress :'( >

 

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she needs a time out.. separate her into a container and rearrange the tank some maybe before letting her back in. if that doesn't work, then you might have to divide the tank or find small hiding places for them she can't get into, put her in another tank or turn her in. maybe post a question in the gourami forum to find out what's motivating her behavior.

Does she seem to be trying to bite them or is it more of a curiosity thing.. sometimes fish will be curious, but even our bettas didn't really pay a lot of attention to the corys when we added some.

 

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it looked like she was nipping at them, but they were swimming too fast for me to see well, I tried to catch her and put her in my 5 gal, but she hides in the mid of the live plants and I can't get here, i'm leaving early tom morning, so I can't get a net breeder

i'm all out of ideas >

 

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unfortunately, the only way to get her might be to take the plants & all out. it could be something that will change over time as she accepts them.. hard to say since these little fish like to have personality and don't all follow the same rules.

 

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i'm gonna turn her in as soon as I get back...shes gonna get too big anyways

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here are the corys!

first is the 2 black banded corys...they're kinda shy
second is my leopard cory...he's really good looking

hopefully my lfs will be getting more leopard corys soon

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and here is my new betta...I know this is the most popular color of crowntail at petsmart, but this one stood out...so I got him

 

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love the betta of course.

 

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hopefully he will brighten up and start eating soon...cause i'm going to colorado in a week or two

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29 gal. update
had my water tested today...looks like it is going thorough that spike right b4 it is cycled...my ph went down, nitrates are around 10, nitrite was up...I did a 20% water change and treated the water w/ prime...so it should be better now

 

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hopefully he will brighten up and start eating soon...cause i'm going to colorado in a week or two

Try Daphnia if you have it or soaking his food in garlic juice or a few frozen bloodworms thawed or some tiny pieces of thawed, peeled frozen peas.. or

 

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unfortunately I now have to add a death log

:'( Death Log :'(
7-28-07=> black-banded cory
7-31-07=> black-banded cory
8-17-07=> female paradise fish jumped the tank
9/15/07=> albino cory
9/27/07=> false juliI cory
10/17/07=> schwartzI cory

 

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:'( we're sorry that you lost your black-banded cory.

 

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i'm guessing the nitrite spike at the end of my cycle got him...i'll get 2 more in another week or two...depending on if I go to colorado

 

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yea, they are pretty sensitive to nitrites.

 

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thing is, he was fine that night when I went to sleep, he and his buddy were swimming around eating...I wake up and hes laying on his side at the front of the tank...but the other corys are doing just fine

 

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yea, it's weird how that happens.. a friend had a nitrite spike and the first fish to go was a cory, but the other corys were all fine..

 

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well, nitrite claims another fishie :'( :'( :'(

 

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It might not be time to hit the red button quite yet, but our friend who had the nitrite spike lost almost the entire tank. Taking the fish out and doing a 99% water change might be in order if the nitrites are out of control.. I'd at least be doing 25% changes daily & monitor the nitrite levels.

 

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Plan for my 55 gal.
-4 Angelfish ;D
-4-5 Angelicus Loaches -or- 1 Rubberlip Pleco
-3-4 Swordtails -or- 1 Dwarf Gourami

any suggestions are welcome!

 

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The Loaches sound like a cool tank and the most unique of those choices.