Hi all,
I've just signed up and I though I would introduce myself before reading all there is on this forum.
I'm living in Vancouver, Canada but am originally from the Netherlands. I currently only have 2 bettas but have been around aquariums all my life since my dad's aquariums had pretty much taken over the house when growing up. He's had pretty much everything you can think of and has been successful at it too. I recall having a small community tank with guppies, platys, black mollies, swordtails etc in my room when I was younger and after that the tank was converted to house some neon tetras and a pair of pelvicachromis pulcher (or kersenbuik) that I (mostly my dad) managed to get to breed.
Even though I've been around aquariums all my life I'm not really versed in all the special water quality checking things and the english names of the fish and plants. That's where you guys come in I'm thinking of starting a small apisto biotope with 2 pairs of apistos a small shoal of neon tetras and a bunch of corydoras. I'm not entirely sure how many tetras would be needed to create the shoaling behaviour or how many corys would be appropriate for 2 pairs of apistos? I'm leaning towards cacatuoides and ramirezi for the cichlids but I'm not sure how big/small the tank should be in order for the aformentioned fish to mature and live properly? or how long the tank has to marinate to introduce the first fish?
Cheers,
Phyex
I've just signed up and I though I would introduce myself before reading all there is on this forum.
I'm living in Vancouver, Canada but am originally from the Netherlands. I currently only have 2 bettas but have been around aquariums all my life since my dad's aquariums had pretty much taken over the house when growing up. He's had pretty much everything you can think of and has been successful at it too. I recall having a small community tank with guppies, platys, black mollies, swordtails etc in my room when I was younger and after that the tank was converted to house some neon tetras and a pair of pelvicachromis pulcher (or kersenbuik) that I (mostly my dad) managed to get to breed.
Even though I've been around aquariums all my life I'm not really versed in all the special water quality checking things and the english names of the fish and plants. That's where you guys come in I'm thinking of starting a small apisto biotope with 2 pairs of apistos a small shoal of neon tetras and a bunch of corydoras. I'm not entirely sure how many tetras would be needed to create the shoaling behaviour or how many corys would be appropriate for 2 pairs of apistos? I'm leaning towards cacatuoides and ramirezi for the cichlids but I'm not sure how big/small the tank should be in order for the aformentioned fish to mature and live properly? or how long the tank has to marinate to introduce the first fish?
Cheers,
Phyex