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loshi Member
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Age : 52 Location : Oakville, ON, Canada Favorite Fish : Clown Loach
| Subject: New 60gallon tank Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:07 pm | |
| Hi everyone, after long time I'm planning to retake the hobby.
I'm new in the forum so let me introduce myself, I'm Loshi and I live in Canada. I used to have a 20gallon tank but then I moved and I kinda "closed it" I have about 2 years of experience so I still consider myself a newbie in the hobby.
Now I'm planning to get a 60 gallon tank and I want to do it the right way, and there is not better way to do it than receiving help from you guys, the gurus!
The tank is a rectangular marineland, comes only with the canopy (with lights) and the stand.
I'll get small gravel, natural color (not sand) I'll get maybe a 95gallon filter, maybe the EHEIM Classic External Canister (95gallon).
Someone suggested me a secondary power filter, thinking on Aqueon 30gallon (quietflow 20)
Now for the fishes, I' thinking on having fishes that are totally different from those that I had in my 20gallon tank, so I dont know them well. I wish to have your opinion to see if there is incompatibility or something that I have to be aware of.
7 Tiger barbs 7 Green barbs 10 GloFish 4 Corydoras (spotted) 2 rubberlip plecos 4 Clown Loaches (I know that with time I'll have to upgrade my tank) but I read that they get well with the barbs and I love them.
Some low maintenance plants that don't need co2 exchanger...any suggestion?
Any comment on filtering, plants and fish selection will be greatly appreciated.
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Age : 56 Location : Wonderful Windy Wyoming Humor : "I drank what?" - Socrates Favorite Fish : I won't choose and ya can't make me!
| Subject: Re: New 60gallon tank Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:03 am | |
| Howdy and welcome to FWM! Sounds like ya have a pretty good plan. Filtration looks good. Overall well thought out. The only real concern is the eventual size of the loaches, which you are already aware of.
Both the loaches and cories can be hard on stem plants, uprootin' them as the fish nose around in the gravel. Amazon swords would work, but will grow slowly in lowlight conditions. Anubias, Java fern and Java moss can all be attached to driftwood and should do well in low light conditions without CO2. This would also prevent them from bein' uprooted.
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