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10-15-2008, 07:11 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Orleans
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|  I feel like a newbie again! So my 100g is ready to go for fish, but I'm trying to figure out a good combo of asians to go in there. this region is all new to me, so i need a bit of help in coming up with some combos. offer input/suggestions where you can, thanks. -Gouramis: always loved them, never kept them. i know they are territorial, and can be aggressive towards their own species. does this mean 1, or a couple of different gouramis? need help. -Tiger Barbs vs Anything else that swims at that level: I'd love to get a school of them, but will their aggressiveness prevent me from getting other fish, primarily schooling fish, that occupy that same area of the water column? -Loaches: anything i should know about them in regards to compatibility? do loaches pretty much get along with everything?
__________________ 100g paludarium, 2 Julie Dickfeldi with more fry everyday; 3 ocellatus "gold" 20gL, empty (saltwater perhaps?) |
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10-15-2008, 07:32 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Oct 2008
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| Gouramis are beautiful animals. Although they can be aggressive if kept in the correct ratios you'll be fine.
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10-15-2008, 07:34 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Memphis, TN
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| Nothing about compatability with loaches, but I hear that they are quite sensitive to meds, and salt shouldn't be used (it's hard on them). :] My loaches love the sand in the tank, they burry themselves... and my otto rides them (not hurting them... just sitting on em). So they're pretty friendly
__________________ ~20 Gal~ 2 Convicts - Bonnie (F) Clyde (M) ~30 Gal~ (long) 1 BN Pleco - Davey Jones (?) 2 Otto - Zim (?) 2 Angel Fish - Nacht (F) Tag (M) 3 'Dwarf Weather Loaches' [Suspected to be Khuli loaches.] - Bandit (?), Vandal (?), Theif (?) 1 Crowntail Betta - Eve (F) ~Others~ 1 Cat - Kit Cat (F) |
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10-15-2008, 07:44 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Pictures! (seriously, I would love to see set up 80g + tanks..) TB are supposed to be nippy little buggers, and agressive until you get 4-5+ together. Then they supposedly just pick on each other.. GOOD possibility that TB will nip the fins off anything that is non-agressive. That said.. the 2 TB I have school with the 1 CL I have and leave everyone else in the tank alone. Clown Loachs are another schooling fish. These fish get HUGE up to 16" and FAT. So 5 fat fish will dominate almost any household tank. There are however smaller loaches to consider.
__________________ 29G AF, Pleco, RTBS, (4) Neon Tetra, 2 TB, Betta, Clown Loach, (2) African Frogs, (5) Ramhorn Snails http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/welc...llo-hello.html |
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10-15-2008, 09:38 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: kansas city, ks
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| what kinda dimensions are the tank? and i forget who it is on the forum...but she has 20-30 (?) tiger barbs with a couple fire eels. a semi-aggressive commmunity would be neat i would worry about the gouramis fins though with tiger barbs...though thier not long and flowing, they could still be attracted to them
__________________ 12g SW: 1 false-perc 29g: 15 panda corys, 2 black skirt tetras, 2 otos, 1 swordtail, 5 platys 58g SW: yellow watchman goby, 6-line wrasse, 3 firefish gobys, scopas tang 75g: 21 kuhliis, 10 discus, angel, BGK, 2 otos, 4 BNs, 2 platies plus 3 cats, a dog, and 2 baby bunnehs |
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10-15-2008, 10:07 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On my office chair playing Runescape
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| Get about 45 tiger barbs with 5 clown loaches and a couple of bichers.
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10-15-2008, 11:01 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Eastern Illinois University
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| I'd personally watch out for the TB Gourami mix, but as for loaches, the Yoyo loach is pretty cool and so is a skunk loach. People say skunk loaches can be mean, but mine stays under a rock or barried in the gravel. He's a little wuss. When the yoyo and the skunk were in the same tank they hung out all day long though. I want to setup a tank with clown loaches, tiger barbs, and Arulius barbs, but right now my discus planning is controling my fish brain. I think that combo of the three would look really cool.
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10-15-2008, 11:47 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On my office chair playing Runescape
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| With a 100gal you got to AT LEAST have a monster fish.
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10-16-2008, 02:14 AM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Orleans
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| the reason i'm not going with a monster fish is because i work at an aquarium, so i kind of have that covered at work. i also believe birchirs are from africa, which goes against my asian theme. i think i will add slowly. might go with rasboras and some calmer barbs, or perhaps some rainbow fish.
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10-16-2008, 11:02 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Oct 2008
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| Punkrockfish It's funny how you titled your thread "I feel like a newbie again" because I'm starting a little fish room in my basement and maybe it's just my personality but I quadruple check everything paranoid that I'm doing something wrong. Even though I've been doing this for a long long time. LOL In my opinion I think rasboras and rainbow fish would make a great looking tank. best of luck |
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