Revamping the 55...

[JMLenke]

Current Inhabitants both Plant and Fish:
Fish:
9 cherry barbs (7 male, 2 female)
http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_cherry.php
6 black mollies (unknown sex) no issues once moved from the 20L.
http://www.fishlore.com/Profiles-Mollies.htm
1 million (estimated) Endlers (5 males, 999,995 females)
http://www.aquaworldaquarium.com/Articl ... earer.html
1 Synodontis Ocellifer
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com/ha ... lifer.html
possible 1 other unknown Synodontis sp. (cant locate in tank, cant find a corpse either)
1 Skunk Loach (terror of the tank)
http://www.loaches.com/species-index/ya ... ia-morleti
2 Flagfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanella
3 Keyhole Cichlids (1 pair, 1 other)
http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile64.html
1 True SAE
http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_sae.php
1 Paradise Fish (secondary tank terrorizer, female by all appearances)
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... CatId=1007
4-5 Juvenile Bristlenose Plecs(they move too much to get an accurate count)
http://www.aquatic-hobbyist.com/profile ... enose.html
1 Adult Albino Bristlenose
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Catfish,%20 ... lenose.htm
1 pair of Montezuma Swordtails
http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Xiph ... ezumae.php
Plants:
Assorted Mosses
Spiral Val
Jungle Val?
Rotala sp?
Bacopa sp?

Other Fish:
Male Bolivian Ram, has very nice streamers off his tail.
http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Boli ... inosus.php
Green Swordtails (adult sized, very pretty, 1 possibly 2 males 3 females)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_swordtail

I am probably going to be stripping the 55 of most of the fish and wanted to see if there was any interest in any of the current inhabitants prior to my trading them off to a LFS.

I would like to change the tank over to a Praecox mainly tank with some assorted dithers/schoolers.

Any interest in any of the current inhabitants? I can bring them to the meeting next Saturday. The underlined fish is the only one I am really wanting to keep without a very good offer for him.

[Ltrepeter2000]

Interested in Bolivian Ram, the Bristlenose, skunk loach, and the SAE.

[JMLenke]

FYI on the male Bolivian, he originally disliked anything else that was male in the tank, I think the bristlenose in his tank, the male endler and the 2nd Male Praecox cured him of that issue.

He can only see out of one eye but it makes for a very amusing time watching him.

[Ltrepeter2000]

Not a problem....he can go in with the endlers to keep half the population balanced then

[JMLenke]

fair enough.

Still bartending or did you get in with that one company?

[Ltrepeter2000]

both still but I took Saturday off....

[Ghazanfar Ghori]

I would like to change the tank over to a Praecox mainly tank with some assorted dithers/schoolers.

Glad you're doing this - it allows for a much more 'pleasing' look
to have a larger group of a few species only - and a school of praecox
is especially sweet. Infact, I wouldnt add any other 'assorted dithers/schoolers' at all. Maybe a group of loaches or cories - again a larger group of same species.

[Ltrepeter2000]

I agree with Ghaz on this one. Think you would enjoy seeing a Praecox only look in a 55.

[JMLenke]

The 55 is in constant motion for the most part which is something I look forward to seeing, then again, it is almost too frantic on occasion as well.

Interestingly when the barbs were in the 20 they all stayed around each other and shoaled if not schooled, in the 55 they might run in pairs at most but usually they are running in singles all over the tank.

I may have to migrate the Synodontis to a different tank as he is easily the largest fish and the main one to terrify other fish in the tank even if he is "mostly harmless".


One problem I am running into with the 55 is the fact that the little bit of clown puke mixed in the gravel is turning me off. I would prefer to not rip out all of the gravel and replace it for the handfull or two of blue that somehow got mixed in but I may.

Right now the tank is pretty much self sufficient and I am hesitant to change much as there is minimal algae in the tank tbh. Either the inhabitants or the philodendron is keeping the algae to a minimum even with 4x65w PC bulbs sitting directly on the glass lid which are on for WAY too long each day.

[JMLenke]

I would like to change the tank over to a Praecox mainly tank with some assorted dithers/schoolers.

Glad you're doing this - it allows for a much more 'pleasing' look
to have a larger group of a few species only - and a school of praecox
is especially sweet. Infact, I wouldnt add any other 'assorted dithers/schoolers' at all. Maybe a group of loaches or cories - again a larger group of same species.

The school of loaches might be interesting if I did another school of Skunks but they are VERY tempermental and I wonder if they would confine the anger to themselves or direct it out at everything else in the tank.