29 Gallon Community Tank Growout Thread

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

+2.

I have the same reaction to my planted tank…it’s nice to have a “peaceful” tank as a break from the more aggressive ones…even if the planted tanks are the hardest to keep happy lol.
Your tank’s looking great!

+3. As much as I adore my favorites that would lunch on the fish in it, my 110 liter will make for a great 'small and peaceful' planted tank to compliment my largest 2.

I think many MFKers who don't already could really benefit from a 76-110 liter of neons and similar to compliment their several thousand liter tanks of red tail catfish, arowanas, and whatnot.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

So, my sister did a water change. Lost a variety of fish. Didn’t plug in the heater. I’m not doing her wc. I got my hands full with school and other tanks. It’s a mistake, but the wc was at, like, 11pm a few days ago. We may have to take this tank down.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

New phone = new pictures!

 

[The Masked Shadow]

One little happy family

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

I'm guessing the tank rebounded from the water replacement mishap?

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Yes, the tank is all back to normal. Don’t understand why the Anubis’s and Java Fern are dying though…. The losses include all except one Normans Lampeyes, a neon tetra, and a few Amani shrimped speaking of Amani shrimp, they all have eggs!

 

[Deadeye]

Might be too much light on the plants.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Fat Cory’s. I found an assassin snail, which is good. I have an infestation of pond snails in my 90g…how many assassin snails would it take to kill roughly 150 small-medium snails?

 

[Deadeye]

A dozen? Haven’t tried them honestly.
A puffer (not for all tanks) or a school of loaches would certainly clean them up in no time too.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Hi Shadow,

I'd like to let you know that using loaches to clear your 341 liter of snails is not the best choice for 2 reasons:

1: As PFK nicely puts it:

Although the molluscivorus reputation of some botiids precede them, don’t use them to clear snail infestations.

Many mollusc-eating loaches tend to be aggressive and as loaches are not specialist molluscivores will not tend to eat the larger, tough-shelled snails.

www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/quick-guide-to-loaches/

2: Even setting that aside, for the reasons in the 4th sentence of my signature, it would be a very poor mix with the existing bichirs.

I suggest the assassin snails for that reason.