What was I thinking? New GG in the house

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Morning water changes in the garage fishroom

No water changes on the two 90g tanks because Im going to do filter cleanings later. The RTGG is in the upper right 90g. The clown loaches are still in QT in the middle bottom 40B and the other future tankmates to the RTGG are the barbs in the 65B on the lower left.

Filament barbs are so active its hard to get a good pic, always a blur of activity. The trio will school with the roselines at times. Im still looking for at minimum of 2 more for a group of 5. thinking I want more like 7 of these.


The roselines are very well behaved and shoal together quite nicely. This encourages the filament barbs to school with them at times. I have seven of these but thinking to increase to 9.

 

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Local store ordered in some filament barbs for me and I picked up the rest of the group I plan on for the future RTGG tankmates.

So Ive get 7 Filament barbs, 7 Denison barbs, and 10 clown loaches which will all go in the 300 along with the RTGG.

 

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Bit blurry of a pic but you can see the RTGG is putting on size. He is pretty much the size of the sevs in the tank

 

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Lost one roseline in the growout tank. As it was growing its gill and head were looking deformed. So down to six roselines. The 300 may be ready for fish soon with my 8 silver dollars scheduled to be picked up by a Craigslister tonight. The pearsei is also gone. All that is left is an Oscar which I think I will rehome. This will open up the 300 as a blank canvas for the RTGG tank.

When going into the fish room this morning before sunrise with a little natural light coming in, otherwise pretty dark, I swore I saw the RTGG going at a couple of the sevs. This is not something it does in the light, in fact with light on it backs down and lets itself be chased on occasion to the dominant sev. So Im kind of wondering if I should move the red sevs into the 300 with the RTGG or not. They would add a nice splash of color but at this point not sure what kind of tankmates they will be. I got time to think about it still. Part of me wants the sevs in the tank and the other wants to just have the RTGG as the solo, large focus fish with the clown loaches and the barbs kind of the secondary.