Alright, help me solve this if you can!
Three chinese algae eaters have outgrown their welcome my marring the sides of my angelfish in the 55g. But I love these crazy bullets and want to keep them for the monsters they are. The two beefy gold algae eaters are rambunctious and quarrelsome, outright attacking the true albino CAE!
So I'll move them to another tank, right? Not so easy. Here are the conditions:
55gal currently contains: Three very small raphael cats, three algae eaters (two gold, one true albino), two mollies, one hermetic brachyrhadia meesi, one angelfish, one jurupari, one new tiny adonis (headed for the 125g once he isn't bite-sized, another story for another time), and an apple (colombian ramshorm) snail bigger than a golf ball's diameter. *whew* So that tank really should be thinned down a bit. All the fish are small, but they are growing and the nitrAtes are becoming a battle. That's the home tank.
75gal currently contains: Two young polypterids of mild manner, one short-bodied jade goby, three mollies and two hoplosternum littorale. This is my flex tank where I can hold fish I don't have other places for ATM. But if I put the two gold CAE's in there, they might suck on the poly slime, I hear it's irresistible. So alright, you say. Just swap them straight. But the 55g should not have any fish added to it, so maybe the 125g would work into this somehow?!
125gal: One curious and mouthy Oscar who loves his live snacks, five raphael cats of adult heft, one L200, one short-bodied paratilapia polleni and one liosomadoras morrowi. Okay, so why not just put the polys into this one? Oscar would probably gulp the little gold dust bichir right down and beg for more. Add the gold CAE's to the 125g and see if they can make it? Nope! They might chew on the big raphs. The smaller raphs have an easy time getting away, but a three inch CAE huddling all over a 9" raphael is just asking for trouble.
Solution 1: Move the golden CAE's downstairs, bring the poly's upstairs and overload the 55g, increasing the bioload and maintenance until the polys are big enough for the 125g.
Solution 2: Move the two golden CAE's into the 125g directly and let them make a run for their money. Move the raphaels from the 125g and the 55g all into the the 75 gallon where the polys were and bring the polys upstairs.
Solution 4: Turn on the heater in my LMB 30 gallon tank and put the two golden CAE's in there, hoping the cooler temps will mellow them out without doing too much harm. Lower temperature limit for CAE's?
Solution 3: Your better logic has found the perfect solution by realizing the best way to arrange my stock for optimal safety from the CAE team.
Help?!
Three chinese algae eaters have outgrown their welcome my marring the sides of my angelfish in the 55g. But I love these crazy bullets and want to keep them for the monsters they are. The two beefy gold algae eaters are rambunctious and quarrelsome, outright attacking the true albino CAE!
So I'll move them to another tank, right? Not so easy. Here are the conditions:55gal currently contains: Three very small raphael cats, three algae eaters (two gold, one true albino), two mollies, one hermetic brachyrhadia meesi, one angelfish, one jurupari, one new tiny adonis (headed for the 125g once he isn't bite-sized, another story for another time), and an apple (colombian ramshorm) snail bigger than a golf ball's diameter. *whew* So that tank really should be thinned down a bit. All the fish are small, but they are growing and the nitrAtes are becoming a battle. That's the home tank.
75gal currently contains: Two young polypterids of mild manner, one short-bodied jade goby, three mollies and two hoplosternum littorale. This is my flex tank where I can hold fish I don't have other places for ATM. But if I put the two gold CAE's in there, they might suck on the poly slime, I hear it's irresistible. So alright, you say. Just swap them straight. But the 55g should not have any fish added to it, so maybe the 125g would work into this somehow?!
125gal: One curious and mouthy Oscar who loves his live snacks, five raphael cats of adult heft, one L200, one short-bodied paratilapia polleni and one liosomadoras morrowi. Okay, so why not just put the polys into this one? Oscar would probably gulp the little gold dust bichir right down and beg for more. Add the gold CAE's to the 125g and see if they can make it? Nope! They might chew on the big raphs. The smaller raphs have an easy time getting away, but a three inch CAE huddling all over a 9" raphael is just asking for trouble.
Solution 1: Move the golden CAE's downstairs, bring the poly's upstairs and overload the 55g, increasing the bioload and maintenance until the polys are big enough for the 125g.
Solution 2: Move the two golden CAE's into the 125g directly and let them make a run for their money. Move the raphaels from the 125g and the 55g all into the the 75 gallon where the polys were and bring the polys upstairs.
Solution 4: Turn on the heater in my LMB 30 gallon tank and put the two golden CAE's in there, hoping the cooler temps will mellow them out without doing too much harm. Lower temperature limit for CAE's?
Solution 3: Your better logic has found the perfect solution by realizing the best way to arrange my stock for optimal safety from the CAE team.
Help?!
. Or maybe make a divider for the 75, and divide off the polys and the CAEs?