Well it worked for him... would it work for me?
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Idk what's worse the tank in the vid, the advice that it's acceptable, or that I don't see 20 replies stating "hell no"
Couldn't read the replies, those fish obviously have trouble not swimming into each other(obvious in vid), also you notice one fish doesn't have eyes? Think a leperinus got them?
Lmao I couldnt tell who was missing their eyes way tooany fish to spot it. I did notice tattered fins and some battle scars also saw the sev chase another fish away. Even if their was 0 aggression no way anyone would be able to stay on top of wc's. Shame
Many experienced fish keepers have the ability to do things that fish keepers without years of experience will find impossible. Combination of species may have taken years of trial and error to put in a copasetic place.
Doesn't make it a good idea, but may work,
and any video or photo is just a short moment in time, a week later the entire tank may be a battle and dead zone, if not cared for and watched properly .
Doesn't make it a good idea, but may work,
and any video or photo is just a short moment in time, a week later the entire tank may be a battle and dead zone, if not cared for and watched properly .
Hello; I was in a fish shop a while back. In a tank in a rack of tanks were a lot of male kribensis. I commented about how this was managed. The shop keeper felt it was because there were so many that normal territorial aggression was essentially being replaced by the stress of the overcrowding.
There have been posts about how stress hormones can build up in a tank and as to how even tho we cannot test for these stress emissions that they do exist with some fish combinations. The point was that we need to keep up with WC even if nitrates are not out of range.
I will add one personal observation. I have kept crowded tanks with some schooling fish and some fish that apparently make them nervous. The schoolers were pretty much always in a school which at the time seemed fine to me as I enjoyed looking at them.
In other tanks filled with only schoolers it seems to me much of the time they are wandering about as individuals. It seems it is mainly when I do something to disturb them that they school for a while. Not a studied thing but more of a casual observation.
There have been posts about how stress hormones can build up in a tank and as to how even tho we cannot test for these stress emissions that they do exist with some fish combinations. The point was that we need to keep up with WC even if nitrates are not out of range.
I will add one personal observation. I have kept crowded tanks with some schooling fish and some fish that apparently make them nervous. The schoolers were pretty much always in a school which at the time seemed fine to me as I enjoyed looking at them.
In other tanks filled with only schoolers it seems to me much of the time they are wandering about as individuals. It seems it is mainly when I do something to disturb them that they school for a while. Not a studied thing but more of a casual observation.
