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PostSubject: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyTue Sep 06, 2011 5:49 pm

What are the options for best colorful community fishes? i dont want schooling of fish but just one or two of each kind.
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyTue Sep 06, 2011 9:10 pm

What size tank do you have?
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyWed Sep 07, 2011 5:10 pm

one 14 gallon and another 1o gallon. want to keep fish size max upto 4 in.

is there any semi agressive cichlid i can keep with community fishes?
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyFri Sep 09, 2011 9:48 pm

For those size tanks, I would look at smaller fish. Those size tanks won't make for a very large community tank. By the time you make a small community you won't have room for a four inch fish. But that's my opinion. I hope someone else can help. I don't know much about cichlids other than angels. Smile
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptySat Sep 10, 2011 9:17 am

The smaller species of dwarf cichlids of the genera Apistogramma, Crenicara, Nannacara and Taeniacara could work if you didn't mind a single specimen. Same with some of the smaller Nanochromis species from Africa. A breeding pair of any of these can be brutal on common community fish, though, and IME they tend to be brutal on each other when kept in small aquariums unless they are a breeding pair.

For the 14 you could go with a single kribensis (females are more colorful and smaller) or maybe a keyhole cichlid with other fish, but beyond that your pretty limited on cichlids.

Remember, that when a fish doubles in length, it does not merely double the load on the biological filter. It's mass increases by greater than twice because the fish also grows deeper and wider. The load a 4" fish puts on the filtration will be roughly as much as six to eight 2" fish. That really decreases the number of fish you can keep in a small tank, so discipline against acquiring new fish will hafta be absolute. A single 4" fish as a centerpiece with a half dozen 2" schooling fish is doable in your tanks as long as the 4" fish isn't too active and heavy filtration is maintained, but personally I wouldn't advise it. A school of 4" fish just isn't fair to the fish.

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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptySun Sep 11, 2011 10:35 am

Well I was going to chime in but I was pretty much going to say what wyomingite has already covered! Another idea for the 10 gallon would be 2-3 female bettas, maybe 2-4 panda corys, and maybe some live plants.
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptySun Sep 11, 2011 10:46 pm

I'm partial to gouramis in small tanks as the show fish.

We had a bunch of good ideas here too for that matter:
http://www.freshwatermadness.com/t2322-10g-stocking-ideas
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyMon Sep 12, 2011 6:13 pm

have currently got in 14 gallon since one year
1 leapoard danio
2 mollies
2 cherry barbs
4 guppy
2 platies
1 albino cory
1 red n blue dwarf gourami

in another 10 i have got:
4 platies
2 guppies
2 cheery barbs
1 albino cory
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyMon Sep 12, 2011 6:42 pm

Hello fisholi.

That's actually a nice stocking level you have there. Cherry barbs and danios are schooling fish. I'd put all the cherry barbs in one tank (probably the 14) and get a couple of more zebra or leopard danios and put them and the leopard danio you have in the other (probably the 10). Then, seriously, I wouldn't add any more fish.

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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyThu Sep 15, 2011 7:28 pm

adding my fish tank pic



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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyThu Sep 15, 2011 7:31 pm

@ Wyomingite

i dont think it makes any problem not putting the cherry barbs together as tey arent schooling as they tend to move about their own accord and not together.

as for danio i had bought a pair and one of them died so he/she is a loner and hes been there since a year and is more active than anyone...chasing everyone around playfully
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyMon Sep 19, 2011 4:56 pm

Nice looking tank...although it looks like you have a comet in there. It will eventually grow up and eat the other fish in your tank...if it hasn't started already.
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyMon Sep 19, 2011 6:18 pm

yea trying to find a new home for it(comet). it hasn't started eating yet. i just pray it doesn't. i didn't know it would grow this big. its finding the space small to swim in
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyMon Sep 19, 2011 11:58 pm

It will get much bigger.
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyThu Sep 22, 2011 5:13 pm

You can get several different kind of shell dwellers from Lake Tanganyika for the 14 gallon!
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PostSubject: Re: Colorful community fishes   Colorful community fishes EmptyThu Sep 22, 2011 9:44 pm

Comets aren't very aggressive, and the other fish in there are all fast enough that it shouldn't be an issue. Any fry that end up would be snacks however.

The comet definitely needs a much larger home though, they'll get out to around 10 inches pretty easily.
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