Favourite setups
- Thread starter Vaskov
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I've got both. A RTGG alone in one tank and a community of tinfoils, balas, clowns, cigars, chalceus and flagtail in another. I love both tanks, it's like asking me which is my favourite child!!!!
community tanks because i have angels and rainbows with peaceful cichlids like urau and keyholes and roselines and clown loaches and my bgk its just a more interesting tank Im not a fan of species tanks because everything is the same you know blue fish red fish blue fish gray fish and also the more peaceful the tank the more variety you can add.
Both tank types appeal to me and I always want the one I haven't got, but I always end up back with a large wet pets.
Community tanks are much more interesting to me. Both have their appeal, but watching my fish interact with each other and watching activity in all parts of my tank is great. I can only spend so much time watching a single large fish swim around, but I can watch a community tank for hours.
Although I'm a cichlid keeper, and cichlids do not often play well with others (after many years(may have taken me decades to get it thru my head) I found my favorite set ups were those using a shoal of a single cichlid species (or two geographically appropriate ones), with geographically appropriate dithers, and not crowding, yet having enough to disperse aggression.
Of course if the tank was too small, this was not an easy task, so to me, keeping moderately size species in the largest tanks I could have, was my best bet.
Of course if the tank was too small, this was not an easy task, so to me, keeping moderately size species in the largest tanks I could have, was my best bet.
