I was bored, so I made this thread.
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your not alone roan! when i get my own house i want a 500g bala shark tank!
oh, and right now i have a 10g with just one fish in it, so i guess that's a species tank, right?
oh, and right now i have a 10g with just one fish in it, so i guess that's a species tank, right?
Hey, works for meRockabillyChick said:
Out of my 15+ tanks I have two that are community and that will soon be one. All the rest are species only.
Roan
man, you love bows to death, don't you?Roan Art said:Hey, works for me
Out of my 15+ tanks I have two that are community and that will soon be one. All the rest are species only.
Roan
Yes, but it's not just that.fishcatch22 said:
The fact is that I've learned that schooling fish, and many other types of fish, just do better and behave more naturally in a species only environment.
Look at what we do: we not only take a wild animal and throw it in a glass box, but we stick all sorts of fish in there that would *never* in a million years inhabit the same water as the others.
Sure, it looks cool. Busy. Busy like the Beltway at 5pm. And compatibility problems galore. Have you known anyone that had a community tank that didn't have an issue or six at one time or another? Disease, too. Look at all the gourami deaths of late. What is killing them? Does it spread to other kinds of fish? Does it infect the whole tank?
When you have a species tank you don't have compatibility issues. You don't have as many disease issues. You have more active, more naturally behaving fish.
When I got my first Boesemani school I did the community thing like everyone else does. I had gouramis, bows, platys, corycats, clowns and neon tetras all in the same tank. Looked cool! For a while. Two of the female Boes started to fight -- something that is not normal. The gouramis got into it and killed the two female boes. The tetras did nothing but hide. The platys made the Boes mad and got chased all over the tank. The Boes were stressed and broke out in columnaris. And so on . . .
As soon as I moved the Boesemani into the 75g tank and increased the school by 8 more, their colors became more vivid. There was no fighting. They sparred more, but not viciously, they spawned and they stayed healthy. There are fry all over and one has actually made it to juvenilehood. Her/his name is Mickey D and s/he's about an inch now. We're really proud of our first bow baby.
No disease. No problems at all.
If I ever get a 300g tank, I intend to fill it with Red Hook Silver Dollars and that's it. Just them and lots of them.
Roan
