can exodon really go in a 29 gallon?

[fishhead0103666]

Those nitrates being 100 pm doesn't look right. I can keep my most heavily over stocked tank, which is much more over stocked then yours, at much less then 100 nitrate. If I can find my testing thing, thing always dissappears, then I'll pm you my stock and my parameters and what not.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Yep, just as I thought.

 

[white specter crayfish]

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Yep, just as I thought.

hmmmm, I heard up to 200 ppm was fine, hell I've seen people with nitrates up to 400 ppm and they had fish that were still breeding, I thought it was fine as long as the ammonia and nitrite were low enough

 

[fishhead0103666]

The basic api test only tests upto 100....
Ok I'm gonna leave this for someone with more knowledge in that area to answer. I'd use rhe search function on the site and search "nitrate levels" and see what you get.

 

[white specter crayfish]

The basic api test only tests upto 100....
Ok I'm gonna leave this for someone with more knowledge in that area to answer. I'd use rhe search function on the site and search "nitrate levels" and see what you get.

oh, mine went up to 140 i think, im not keeping sensitive fish and everything has done fine so I think it is fine, as long as i keep up on the water changes and don't have overly aggressive fish I don't see why it couldn't work

 

[DOOB]

if you keep rummy nose tetras at 100ppm nitrates their noses eill go white and they will be dead in mins

 

[CichlidKeeper01]

Is the thing cycled? Even my 125 cichlid tank doesn't hit that level of nitrates. And that thing is packed. I would get your water checked by an lfs because that seems ridiculously high, your test kit might be off. I don't really think some of those fish would be healthy at 100 ppm. Or even alive for that matter.

 

[Gourami Swami]

20ppm is fine, 200ppm is not fine at all. Sounds like you have a heavily overstocked tank and don't do enough water changes on it, and have dirty water. A few months is not enough time to tell if a tank is "doing fine" tbh; the fish are probably slowly getting sick from the nitrates. On a tank stocked at that level I'd be doing 50% water changes every other day, not every other week. And you wanted more fish to buy? Just spread those fish into the other 29, they will need it.

 

[white specter crayfish]

20ppm is fine, 200ppm is not fine at all. Sounds like you have a heavily overstocked tank and don't do enough water changes on it, and have dirty water. A few months is not enough time to tell if a tank is "doing fine" tbh; the fish are probably slowly getting sick from the nitrates. On a tank stocked at that level I'd be doing 50% water changes every other day, not every other week. And you wanted more fish to buy? Just spread those fish into the other 29, they will need it.

the tank has been up for 1 year now, I want 20 red eyed tetras and 20 rummy nose tetras, I would like some celestial pearl danios too, I don't think my water is that dirty, my fish are doing amazingly well, growing significantly and loving life, should I just move my kuhli loaches and red eyed tetras into the 29 with some more tetras? I was thinking have my kuhli loaches (about 10-14), probably 20 rummynose tetras, 20 red eyed tetras, and one of the plecos and add in some celestial pearl danios?
so my biocube would have
1 albino red tail shark
3 dojo loaches
1 type of pleco
2 albino cherry barbs
1 betta
20 celestial pearl danios
5 peacock gudgeons
and the new 29 would have
20 red eyed tetras
20 rummynose tetras
10-14 kuhli loaches
and one pleco


I think that amount of tetras would be fine because they are a schooling fish and apparently 3 red eyed tetras is considered stressful

 

[fishhead0103666]

You don't want celestial pearl danios unless you're doing a tank for nano fish because the bigger fish will make them hide all the time and you won't see them. Back when I had a krib with mine I never saw the celestial pearl danios. Once I moved him out I see him all the time.
Also I wouldn't do 40 tetras in a standard 29.
Also maybe the shark and dojo loaches shouldn't be in the cube. I have a 6 inch rainbow shark and those loaches can hit 8 inches in time.
The cherry barbs are a schooling fish.
Kuhli loaches are an extremely active fish and in my experience I'd say even a 4 foot tank isn't big enough for them let along a 30 inch tank. Just my personal opinion though.