breeding rack tank sizes
- Thread starter Harris.
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Ebas: 40b
Gbr, ancistrus and L397 can probably all go in a single 40b together, though the rams may not like the cold flashes required to get the plecos to spawn
I'd make a 40-41" rack with 2-3 40s and 4 10s for growouts. Make colonies of everything
Gbr, ancistrus and L397 can probably all go in a single 40b together, though the rams may not like the cold flashes required to get the plecos to spawn
I'd make a 40-41" rack with 2-3 40s and 4 10s for growouts. Make colonies of everything
I say get the Acaras a 40 breeder (agreeing with Hybrid)
German Rams - 20H
Not sure about plecos (never kept any other than commons)
If anything I'd at least go 29 for the rams, you'd be able to keep a decent group in one. Not necessary for a pair alone, you can breed a bonded pair in a standard 5 gallon, but if you want to get better results breeding, you'll want a group. People always bash tall tanks, and I'll admit they are hard to decorate and cumbersome, but the height/extra water has the benefit of letting tank mates/conspecifics get out of the range of bottom hugging spawning pairs of cichlids. I can successfully breed a small colony of some kind of cryptoheros or amatitlania in a 30 long, 29 or 55 with little damage to tankmates, whereas the same footprint at a foot in height would result in battered dithers clumped up on one side of the tank.
sorry I’m not from the US what’s the dimensions on those tanks you mentioned?
the steel rack I’ll be using has a base dimension of 4feet wide and 2 feet deep per shelf.
looking at doing a 2 tier to start off with and then as time goes slowly expand it to the third shelf.
looking at getting custom tanks made as my local tank builder is top notch and that will allow me to maximise the rack as best as possible.
