stocking question for a 20 g

Linda S

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Linda Sholly

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I have 4 male guppies, 6 dwarf cories and 4 otos, I was going to add 3 khuli loaches, but aquaadvisor suggest a minimum of 5 I will be running an aquaclear 30 and a marineland magnum HOT with plants and maybe a piece of drift wood. Do I have room for 5 khulis or is 3 ok?

 

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5 should be ok. they dont have a huge bioload.

 

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20 long or high?

 

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high, I know the foot print would be better with the long.

 

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The tank will be bottom heavy but it should be ok to add a couple more.

 

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right now the corries are all over the place, and the otos are on the leaves of the plants, I expect the khulies to be buried much of the time, I just think they're cool. =)

 

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Yea Ive got 4 in my 18 planted. Be sure to have a large rock structure of some sort for them to hide under.

 

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3 will work, too. My three seem happy enough. Heavily planted tank, lots of hiding places...however, mine are out most of the time - swimming all over the place, hanging over plant leaves. They;re fat and happy little fish. FWIW, my experience is that the brown/java/cinnamon/black (whatever your LFS call the non-striped ones) are out more often than the regular striped ones.

Eric

 

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I have a small pice of driftwood to add to the tank And I expect them to go under my anubias too. Thanks everyone

 

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well I just looked them up again on liveaquaria.com It says they need a 40 gal tank so I'm thinking 2 instead of 5 if I get them, I could get them for the 36 BF. I need to rethink this.