Ideas for 100g tank

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
reason being Oscar are tall thick fish. they have allot of mass for there size. mass=bio-load. get a canister for the bio load. this being the nitrate cycle. HoB better mech filtration. better at pulling the particulates out of your water. Idealy looking at 10x gph for HoB and 5x for a canister.
 
pops said:
I like my plecos? I have a 14" in the 180, do I have to vacuum his rope poop up every week, sure. but he keeps my wood glass and rocks cleaned up, fair exchange to me. I keep a 12" in the lutino tank. for same reason. that tank in a window. no back ground and no algea. I do throw him in the jag tank for a few days every 3 weeks or so to clean it up. then back in the lutinoes tank. for bio load not that bad, fish poop is not bio load in the water persay. your biggest bio-load is your fish by way of respiration. they pass ammonia to the water much as we pass carbon dioxide to the air. un eaten rotting food is also a big contributer but no where near as big as the fish itself.
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I'll consider the pleco. Let me see what varieties are avaialable here. All I have seen so far the common plecos.
 
pops said:
reason being Oscar are tall thick fish. they have allot of mass for there size. mass=bio-load. get a canister for the bio load. this being the nitrate cycle. HoB better mech filtration. better at pulling the particulates out of your water. Idealy looking at 10x gph for HoB and 5x for a canister.
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I need to check what's available locally. I am sure I can find some fits the above capacity.
 
common plecs are very slow growers. sail fin/gibby took years for my mine to reach 14" like 4 years.
 
here is the one 180, I have never cleaned the glass wood anything inside the tank, been up for years, I just vacuum the gravel.

 
pops said:
common plecs are very slow growers. sail fin/gibby took years for my mine to reach 14" like 4 years.
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I do have a common pleco in a 60g (2x2x2) with 4 angels. And you're right about slow growth. He's grown to 13" in 4 years or so. I'll just transfer him over when the time's right. I can even use him to speed up the cycle right? Since they don't take in oxygen from the water?
 
you still have to feed them, algea wafers , but I love my little house cleaners.
 
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big guy about 2 years and around 12, little guy about 8 months and about 9" , cat is 4 years and about 12.' and the BKG is about 3 years and 10"
 
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