So, with all the crazy weather happening in the northeast recently, I unfortunately lost power for 4 days...for the second time within 2 months. I can always keep my ammonia levels down and such, but this time, the temperature was against us. I think I lost one of my biggest severum (9+") to stress/cold because he had some wounds from fighting.... And then the ammonia spiked and I ended up losing almost everyone in my big cichlid tank. =\
Anyhow, all of my other fish made it, including grow outs that were scheduled to be moved into that tank. So now, I'm taking a slightly different route, since a lot of the selective pressures were relieved, heh.
First, the stats. A 125g, 6' tank with low lighting, excellent over filtration (big cichlids and cats previously!). The grow outs that MUST move in are 2 severum (bonded, regularly breeding, will harass but not kill other fish), a SAE, 8 rainbowfish, and 4 juvenile wild caught convicts. I'm planning on planting this tank appropriately - I've found that while sevs and convicts like to chew on plants and rearrange them frequently, they do so more to certain soft species that tend to grow fast... So I'll be planting those way before the sevs get moved in, haha.
Im extremely open minded about the fish to get, but they have to be somewhat fast/tough to put up with cons and sevs. I'd prefer nothing that needs frozen/live foods;while I do provide them, it's kinda a pain if I'm travelling haha.
I also have a 46g tank that I'd like to put shrimp in, so I need to make it shrimp friendlier... So I was thinking I could move the shrimp-munchers to the 125. Those fish include: pearl gouramis, gold barbs, bleeding hearts, silver tip tetras, swordtails, and rainbows.
I was thinking that I'd love a school of something (I know the rainbows count, but a second) and my mother really loves angelfish. Any ideas on that front? I also love my oddballs, haha.
Anyhow, all of my other fish made it, including grow outs that were scheduled to be moved into that tank. So now, I'm taking a slightly different route, since a lot of the selective pressures were relieved, heh.
First, the stats. A 125g, 6' tank with low lighting, excellent over filtration (big cichlids and cats previously!). The grow outs that MUST move in are 2 severum (bonded, regularly breeding, will harass but not kill other fish), a SAE, 8 rainbowfish, and 4 juvenile wild caught convicts. I'm planning on planting this tank appropriately - I've found that while sevs and convicts like to chew on plants and rearrange them frequently, they do so more to certain soft species that tend to grow fast... So I'll be planting those way before the sevs get moved in, haha.
Im extremely open minded about the fish to get, but they have to be somewhat fast/tough to put up with cons and sevs. I'd prefer nothing that needs frozen/live foods;while I do provide them, it's kinda a pain if I'm travelling haha.
I also have a 46g tank that I'd like to put shrimp in, so I need to make it shrimp friendlier... So I was thinking I could move the shrimp-munchers to the 125. Those fish include: pearl gouramis, gold barbs, bleeding hearts, silver tip tetras, swordtails, and rainbows.
I was thinking that I'd love a school of something (I know the rainbows count, but a second) and my mother really loves angelfish. Any ideas on that front? I also love my oddballs, haha.
