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30 gallon with
5 small silver dollars,
3 platys, yellow gourami,
2 little ottos,
1 algea eater,
1 pleco,
4 harliquin tetras,
1 cherry barb,
3 odessa barbs and
2 albino corys
sorry this is a lame post, you dont have to reply lol
MyLittleFishies
11-11-2003, 10:01 AM
ya that might be a little much...
NJ Devils Fan
11-11-2003, 10:05 AM
Well, the silver dollars will grow out of it and if it is a common pleco, it too will grow out of it.
tanker
11-11-2003, 10:56 PM
Take away the silver dollars and your OK.
125gJoe
11-12-2003, 8:11 AM
Originally posted by tanker
Take away the silver dollars and your OK. I'll agree with that...
The Silver Dollars do get big, too big for the 30g plus the other fish..
What was also interesting, was how fast they grew!
If I remember correctly, they love eating live plants... :eek:
tanker
11-12-2003, 2:34 PM
Originally posted by 80gJoe
What was also interesting, was how fast they grew!
If I remember correctly, they love eating live plants... :eek:
Yea, they are FW goats!!. They will eat any plant to the root. My 100gal had lots of plants a few years back. Bought 6 SD, tank became a desert!!! Ate all my swords (10-12), sag, anubius, crpyts, java sword and moss, everything.
Just fish and driftwood left. I gave them away and had to restart again.
Silver dollars + planted tank = happy silver dollars and NO MORE PLANTS!!
anything i put in my tank becomes their salad, except a plant i dont know the name, it was like camboda but alot lighter. they dint like it. yay
do you think thats why my water is a lil couldy?
SwedishFish
11-12-2003, 8:27 PM
it might be or you over feeding them?
cdawson
11-12-2003, 8:31 PM
If the water is a "white" cloudy it's because the bio filter can't handle the load all at once and has to produce an over abundance of bacteria to take care of the excess waste. I would say it's due to over population. I think you'd be hard pressed to overfeed silver dollars and all those fish as even the newest of aquarists would know they were adding too much food.
well thats settles it! they diet starting tomorow!
cdawson
11-13-2003, 9:41 PM
good call, get yourself a nitrate test kit. That way you'll be able to monitor the nitrates incase they go overboard. low nitrates = no cloudy water and healthy fish.