Hello fellow hobby enthusiasts!
A little about myself, I was in the hobby years ago and had to give up. I returned to the hobby a little over year ago and have set up a very densely planted Walstad style 40gal breeder. It's main inhabitants are 8 golden pencils, 12 ember tetra, and 20'ish pygmy cory. They share that with 4 oto, 4 habrosus cory (a dwarf cory species), a viable breeding population of red shrimp (Neocaridina davidi), a few amano shrimp, and some nerite snails. My goal now is to find healthy Bolivian rams (actually pretty hard) or apisto pair/trio to be the centerpiece fish of the tank now that the tank is fully mature and established.
I think i have a sustainable population of red shrimp because of mosses, dense foliage, driftwood, cholla wood, floating mat of riccia, and coconut shell cave covered in peacock moss. I think they could survive dwarf cichlids because of the amount of hiding spaces and also the Malaysian wood I have picked are vertical columns with flat areas and some moss, I notice alot of the baby red shrimp developing off the sand and up on the columns or in the floating riccia mats.
Anyways that is what brought me, research into which dwarf cichlids could fit my tanks parameters and live healthy and stress free.
A little about myself, I was in the hobby years ago and had to give up. I returned to the hobby a little over year ago and have set up a very densely planted Walstad style 40gal breeder. It's main inhabitants are 8 golden pencils, 12 ember tetra, and 20'ish pygmy cory. They share that with 4 oto, 4 habrosus cory (a dwarf cory species), a viable breeding population of red shrimp (Neocaridina davidi), a few amano shrimp, and some nerite snails. My goal now is to find healthy Bolivian rams (actually pretty hard) or apisto pair/trio to be the centerpiece fish of the tank now that the tank is fully mature and established.
I think i have a sustainable population of red shrimp because of mosses, dense foliage, driftwood, cholla wood, floating mat of riccia, and coconut shell cave covered in peacock moss. I think they could survive dwarf cichlids because of the amount of hiding spaces and also the Malaysian wood I have picked are vertical columns with flat areas and some moss, I notice alot of the baby red shrimp developing off the sand and up on the columns or in the floating riccia mats.
Anyways that is what brought me, research into which dwarf cichlids could fit my tanks parameters and live healthy and stress free.
Your tank sounds great, any pics?
