Stocking 20 Long around Zebra Danios

clb2196 · Jun 24, 2009

Wycco said:
Yeah... in my case, I've got a 55 gallon... and whereas I love Danio, Cherry Barbs, Corydoras, etc- it would be nice to have a larger fish in there!

I've been restricted to mainly smaller fish due to my desire to have shrimp.

Yup, in a 55 I'd totally have a pearl.

jenazen69 · Jun 24, 2009

clb2196 said:
This was my first choice- I got 2 within 6 months, and neither of them lasted longer than 3 weeks. Doesn't necessarily mean the stock overall is bad, but I've certainly had problems with them, and so have others on here.

Wycco, good point, definitely a personal asthetic choice. I *do* think the pearls are gorgeous, and I definitely want one for my next (bigger) tank.

Hmm I had mine for 2 years. Never knew people had trouble getting good stock. I will have to keep this in mind when I stock my next tank.

clb2196 · Jun 24, 2009

jenazen69 said:
Hmm I had mine for 2 years. Never knew people had trouble getting good stock. I will have to keep this in mind when I stock my next tank.

Heh, I didn't know either, until my first one died the second day i had it, and I posted on here, and a bunch of people said they didn't tend to be healthy at the moment. Maybe it's a more recent thing?

joel.uejio · Dec 2, 2009

Re-Stocking

Fast forwarding through fish added and fish lost (most recently my dwarf gourami who sadly developed a head lesion and died)....I'm now at a point where I want to add some new fish. Firstly, I plan to bump up my albinos, which would give me:

7 zebra danios, 6 julii corydoras, 6 albino corydoras, and a few-odd snails
These in a 20g long / planted / AC50 / play sand

What else could I add, if I want to keep it as a peaceful community? Some ideas I'm considering are:

silver hatchets
More juliis
ghost shrimp
harlequin rasboras
betta
honey dwarf gourami(s)

...any of these look good? Any other ideas?

Thanks!

Chrisinator · Dec 2, 2009

Your upper region of your tank is occupied by the danios and your lower region is occupied by the Cories. I'd definetely get something that occupies the upper half of the tnak.

joel.uejio · Dec 2, 2009

Chrisinator said:
Your upper region of your tank is occupied by the danios and your lower region is occupied by the Cories. I'd definetely get something that occupies the upper half of the tnak.

Yes, that's one of the reasons I'm considering the hatchets, but I'm concerned about the bioload of adding a school. Maybe I'll keep an eye out for marbled's -- I think they're a little smaller...?

Thanks for the input.

Chrisinator · Dec 2, 2009

Your kinda bottom heavy, and though the cories don't produce as much bioload as the rest of the fish, you have a lot of them. MsJinkzd has some Hatchetfish and maybe PM her asking about it.

joel.uejio · Dec 3, 2009

If I kept the albino cory count at 3, could I do 5 small rainbowfish (e.g. celebs / dwarf neon)?

joel.uejio · Dec 10, 2009

Ok, so I ended up picking up some new fish, and also deciding to change out my substrate from sand to eco-complete (1. For enhanced plant growth, and 2. For a darker substrate). I'll post some pics once I get things settled and tidy. The new stocking is:

3 albino cories
6 julii cories
7 zebra danios
6 brilliant rasboras (NEW! -- similar to the danios, but school a little tighter)
1 bolivian ram (NEW! -- seems to be fitting in very well so far)

I think this is probably over stocked for a 20g long, so I'm going to monitor my params and see if I need to increase my WC regemin.

joel.uejio · Dec 14, 2009

Pics!

Here are some pics of the new fish in the tank, and steps towards replacement of my sand substrate with Eco Complete. Thanks for looking!

Albino corydoras: