Komar
12-19-2004, 07:54 AM
Here's my set-up:
45 Gallon tank (4' long).
Heavily planted with Amazon Swords and Crypts, mostly.
Iron-enriched gravel (somewhat jagged, but not exactly "sharp").
3.5 Watts per gallon fluorescent lighting.
I clean all my tanks at least once a week. Here's the inhabitants:
6 x Clown Loaches (3 are about 2.5", 3 are closer to 4")
10 x Otocinclus Catfish ("Otos")
3 x True Siamese Algae Eaters (SAEs; will be 5 later this week)
1 x Pearl Gourami
I feed these fish mainly flake food, and frozen brine shrimp quite frequently. Sometimes I feed them freeze-dried bloodworms and tubifex worms, and other "bottom-feeder" pellet foods.
I've got one nice hiding spot made from a piece of driftwood that fits all six loaches at a time. Two of the loaches are in it most of the time, but the other four (the four smaller ones, I think) spend a lot of time swimming around.
Any feedback is appreciated, as I haven't had my loaches for very long, and the tank was set up long before I decided to get loaches. (My first loach was bought on impulse, then I decided to throw in some company.)
45 Gallon tank (4' long).
Heavily planted with Amazon Swords and Crypts, mostly.
Iron-enriched gravel (somewhat jagged, but not exactly "sharp").
3.5 Watts per gallon fluorescent lighting.
I clean all my tanks at least once a week. Here's the inhabitants:
6 x Clown Loaches (3 are about 2.5", 3 are closer to 4")
10 x Otocinclus Catfish ("Otos")
3 x True Siamese Algae Eaters (SAEs; will be 5 later this week)
1 x Pearl Gourami
I feed these fish mainly flake food, and frozen brine shrimp quite frequently. Sometimes I feed them freeze-dried bloodworms and tubifex worms, and other "bottom-feeder" pellet foods.
I've got one nice hiding spot made from a piece of driftwood that fits all six loaches at a time. Two of the loaches are in it most of the time, but the other four (the four smaller ones, I think) spend a lot of time swimming around.
Any feedback is appreciated, as I haven't had my loaches for very long, and the tank was set up long before I decided to get loaches. (My first loach was bought on impulse, then I decided to throw in some company.)