Its beautiful! I'm going to be looking into a corner tank for my livingroom, I hope I can make mine look that nice 
Upgrading from 26g bow front to 92g corner
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Its beautiful! I'm going to be looking into a corner tank for my livingroom, I hope I can make mine look that nice
Thank you, good luck with your search. The upgrade cost about $1000 after the tank, stand, equipment, new plants, substrate, driftwood, and the fish I added.
Some updates, everything going great. The dwarf gourami didn't think there were enough territories and one killed 2. Everyone else is doing great.
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So some updates since the last time I posted:
The Stock List was:
7 Silver Hatchet Fish
5 Tiger Barbs
5 Denisonii Barbs (Roseline Sharks) (3 adults, 2 new babies $4.99 at Petsmart!!!)
4 Petricola Catfish
3 Dwarf Gourami
2 Spotted Pictus Catfish
2 Hillstream Loach
Leopard Ctenopoma
Chocolate Gourami (he's soo little, smallest thing in the tank right now)
Angel Pleco
Candy Stripe Pleco
Red Tailed Shark
Penguin Tetra
I had posted previously about one of the Dwarf Gourami killing off the other 2, well the one who killed, died. I'm so done with Dwarf Gourami.
Since then, we had some new additions:
6 more Silver Hatchet fish and
5 Marbled Hatchet Fish,
I've taken out 4 dead Silver hatchet fish, 4 Marbled disappeared, and I found one that jumped to his death out of a 1" gap by an automated feeder we setup during a vacation. So, 9 left and doing great.
A local store got in a small shipment of Cardinal Tetras, bought all 14 they had (these for a while were hard to find in my area). I knew eventually they would all become food for something in the tank as everything else would get bigger and they were already near an inch long. I figure in about a year, I could move them around to other tanks if something got aggressive. Well, these 14 introduced my first ever Ich problem 3 weeks after I got them. I was able to save everyone! Didn't lose anything in the tank due to Ich. The infection lasted about 2 weeks before I really got in under control. However, about a week and a half after that, after I stressed every night about my poor fish surviving Ich, SOMETHING ATE ALL 14 over a time frame of about another week and a half. Pretty sure it was the Leopard Ctenopoma.
So lesson learned, That **** leaf Fish which my WIFE wanted, which is now the size of a about a deck of cards, can easily eat something the size of a Cardinal Tetra that the WIFE WANTED. So, yeah... lesson learned.
Or so I thought,
The wife fell in love with Bloodfin Tetras: "They are much bigger than those cardinals were." She came home with 9 of them one day. That was about 2 months ago, there are 5 left.
Lesson finally learned .... I hope.
The other new additions were a small family of 5 otos to help with some of the plant decay and general maintenance around the tank. One got rehomed to my kids 4 gallon nightlight tank and one is now in my wife's Fluval Edge Blue Crawdad tank in the Kitchen, so 3 left.
My favorite new addition!
Gold Nugget Pleco!!!!!!!
Got a great deal during a sale at a local fish store. He's beautiful. No pictures though, he hangs out on the back walls and it's hard to get a good picture with my little smartphone.
So long story short,
The original inhabitants are doing great, they are just eating, killing or "making disappear" anything else I try and add.
The Stock List was:
7 Silver Hatchet Fish
5 Tiger Barbs
5 Denisonii Barbs (Roseline Sharks) (3 adults, 2 new babies $4.99 at Petsmart!!!)
4 Petricola Catfish
3 Dwarf Gourami
2 Spotted Pictus Catfish
2 Hillstream Loach
Leopard Ctenopoma
Chocolate Gourami (he's soo little, smallest thing in the tank right now)
Angel Pleco
Candy Stripe Pleco
Red Tailed Shark
Penguin Tetra
I had posted previously about one of the Dwarf Gourami killing off the other 2, well the one who killed, died. I'm so done with Dwarf Gourami.
Since then, we had some new additions:
6 more Silver Hatchet fish and
5 Marbled Hatchet Fish,
I've taken out 4 dead Silver hatchet fish, 4 Marbled disappeared, and I found one that jumped to his death out of a 1" gap by an automated feeder we setup during a vacation. So, 9 left and doing great.
A local store got in a small shipment of Cardinal Tetras, bought all 14 they had (these for a while were hard to find in my area). I knew eventually they would all become food for something in the tank as everything else would get bigger and they were already near an inch long. I figure in about a year, I could move them around to other tanks if something got aggressive. Well, these 14 introduced my first ever Ich problem 3 weeks after I got them. I was able to save everyone! Didn't lose anything in the tank due to Ich. The infection lasted about 2 weeks before I really got in under control. However, about a week and a half after that, after I stressed every night about my poor fish surviving Ich, SOMETHING ATE ALL 14 over a time frame of about another week and a half. Pretty sure it was the Leopard Ctenopoma.
So lesson learned, That **** leaf Fish which my WIFE wanted, which is now the size of a about a deck of cards, can easily eat something the size of a Cardinal Tetra that the WIFE WANTED. So, yeah... lesson learned.
Or so I thought,
The wife fell in love with Bloodfin Tetras: "They are much bigger than those cardinals were." She came home with 9 of them one day. That was about 2 months ago, there are 5 left.
Lesson finally learned .... I hope.
The other new additions were a small family of 5 otos to help with some of the plant decay and general maintenance around the tank. One got rehomed to my kids 4 gallon nightlight tank and one is now in my wife's Fluval Edge Blue Crawdad tank in the Kitchen, so 3 left.
My favorite new addition!
Gold Nugget Pleco!!!!!!!
Got a great deal during a sale at a local fish store. He's beautiful. No pictures though, he hangs out on the back walls and it's hard to get a good picture with my little smartphone.
So long story short,
The original inhabitants are doing great, they are just eating, killing or "making disappear" anything else I try and add.
Don't discount the predatory nature of pictus cats. They could have contributed to the demise of your cardinals. Otos are very much social fish, and need to be kept in groups. 6 or more is usually good, but the solo ones aren't going to be happy. Add in the fact that you have plenty of larger predatory fish, I don't know how long they'll survive. It's even possible that a Denison barb might swallow a fish. Rule of thumb? Don't keep a fish with another fish that has a mouth big enough to fit it.
I agree, the pictus cats could be just as likely to have eaten the cardinals as the leaf fish. But both are likely candidates. And I also agree that the otos need to be in groups. The singletons are not going to be happy. But the ones in your large tank are likely candidates to be eaten by your larger fish.
Emily
Emily
I totally understand that Pictus can be very predatory, however they are still small enough that the cardinals were bigger than their mouths. The Bigger Roselines could proably take down a small guppy, but even their mouths aren't big enough to do major damage yet. I did see the leaf take a yawn one day and he is clearly in the best position to be the culprit. He surprised me at how big his mouth was. He's hiding right now or I would grab some pictures. The Otos are a funny Bunch. They just hang at the top water line on the front and occasionally swim down and around to the stems of a water lilly I have in there and hang out.
