I agree, 2-4 tetras would be good. What kind of filter do you use? If it's got a strong return the fish may be resting in a calmer area.
My fish won't come out of hiding!
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Good point, fishorama. Someone else mentioned a dark background, which made me wonder what color your substrate is and how strong your lighting is. If it's a light substrate and/or strong lighting, they might be stressed from it being too bright.
Mother Yoda, looks like you've got a neat puffer there. I'm not familiar with it, so I'm not sure on what kind of activity you can expect from it. Yeah, I agree that when puffer hunt, they do have a flurry of activity, even the sedentary ones. You might want to PM PufferPunk for some more info, though I'm not sure if she has kept them. PP is definitely a guru of puffers.
Mother Yoda, looks like you've got a neat puffer there. I'm not familiar with it, so I'm not sure on what kind of activity you can expect from it. Yeah, I agree that when puffer hunt, they do have a flurry of activity, even the sedentary ones. You might want to PM PufferPunk for some more info, though I'm not sure if she has kept them. PP is definitely a guru of puffers.
it's a sand substrate, but I'm only running a 20 watt above it, and the tank has lots of driftwood and backs to a dark wall. I had floating hygrophilia in there in a giant mat until yesterday, when I got tired of the hiding fish and the horrible way the plant looked. As long a the fish weren't coming out, why should I have to look at the stuff, you know? They do actually seem more active since I pulled it out. I dunno. I was thinking maybe water lettuce as a floater, but I can't find any locally. I'm keeping an eye on the classifieds here for some.
I think one of the local petco's (ugh) has bleeding hearts. I'll swing by there and one of our local pet supply places. I'm not thrilled about buying fish from either one, honestly, but the tetra's seem to hard to find more of. My LFS can only order what thier suppliers have in stock, and they haven't seen them on the list for months. I'd like more of the cories too, but the one's I saw last week were really, really pale and just kinda sitting there in seperate corners, not doing the cory thing. I'm not sure I know enough to be buying sick fish. . . .Although I did okay with whatever hit the big tank last weekish, so maybe I should set up a Q and risk it anyway?
I think one of the local petco's (ugh) has bleeding hearts. I'll swing by there and one of our local pet supply places. I'm not thrilled about buying fish from either one, honestly, but the tetra's seem to hard to find more of. My LFS can only order what thier suppliers have in stock, and they haven't seen them on the list for months. I'd like more of the cories too, but the one's I saw last week were really, really pale and just kinda sitting there in seperate corners, not doing the cory thing. I'm not sure I know enough to be buying sick fish. . . .Although I did okay with whatever hit the big tank last weekish, so maybe I should set up a Q and risk it anyway?
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I had trouble with water lettuce the first time I tried it, but then I upgraded my light so that it was up to 1.7 wpg (up from less than 1 wpg) and kept the current to a minimum. Now they seem to be fine. The roots are much nicer looking, IMHO, than water sprite.
Water sprite is a good choice, but I think it looks nicer when it's planted in the substrate since the leaves of mine get to looking more like elk antlers than oak leaves when it's floating (air in my house is too dry perhaps?).
Duckweed roots look nice and are much smaller than water sprite or water lettuce, but it will take over your tank and is hard to clear out if you decide you don't like it. There is a larger version of duckweed, which I guess is not quite so bad. Giant duckweed, I think it's called.
Also, frogbit is very nice looking, but I'm not sure if it needs high light or not.
Water sprite is a good choice, but I think it looks nicer when it's planted in the substrate since the leaves of mine get to looking more like elk antlers than oak leaves when it's floating (air in my house is too dry perhaps?).
Duckweed roots look nice and are much smaller than water sprite or water lettuce, but it will take over your tank and is hard to clear out if you decide you don't like it. There is a larger version of duckweed, which I guess is not quite so bad. Giant duckweed, I think it's called.
Also, frogbit is very nice looking, but I'm not sure if it needs high light or not.
