Mandy's 130g Community Tank

**Cermet** · 02-07-2013, 08:13 PM

Can't wait to see new updates and especially when you have your fish. Sorry if I caused you to change from discus to angels; still some angels are really spectacular.

**~firefly~** · 02-07-2013, 08:25 PM

6 foot planted tank.........go on....do it

**Sandz** · 02-07-2013, 08:33 PM

Are we going to get to see some super blue veils?

**Goes to 11!** · 02-07-2013, 08:46 PM

More the merrier with Roselines. Personally, I would [& did ;-P] get 10 or 12.

**Sandz** · 02-07-2013, 08:49 PM

btw this is what im talking about... I may be wrong... but these look so much like discus that its a compramise!

**Carapar56** · 02-07-2013, 08:51 PM

Okay so I missed a lot in the two days since I commented about the info on Rose Lines. As far as I know Rose Lines do not have an enormous bioload. However being they can reach 3 to 4 inches they do have quite a bit of bioload compared to other schooling fish. I'm not sure if that info still matters to you as you're not getting the Discus. However, if I can, I would like to recommend getting more then 6 Rose Lines, they're gorgeous and will really look better and be happier in a bigger school. In my own opinion, and if I had your size tank, I'd go for a school of 8 or 10. They're very much like torpedo shaped rainbowfish. They love faster currents, however can stand a slower current of an average community tank, and the really like being in larger schools. And I really think your tank could handle it.

**~firefly~** · 02-07-2013, 08:56 PM

I've also read that Roselines love a fast current. They adore it.

I'm not sure angels do though.

**Goes to 11!** · 02-07-2013, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by ~firefly~

I've also read that Roselines love a fast current. They adore it.

I'm not sure angels do though.

Angels will not be thrilled about high currents but torrents are not required.

Roselines IME do require highly oxygenated water but are actually pretty ambivalent to the higher current spots in the tank [IE: In front of the koralia]. They cruise all over the tank seemingly without much preference except for feeding times when they all hit one front corner because they know where it settles once it's out of the current.

**~firefly~** · 02-07-2013, 09:47 PM

Ahh ok. Well they should be ok then.

I've seen them and read about them but not kept them myself. Not the same at all, but, I've had dwarf rainbowfish and they seemed to relish swimming in the current. I remember upgrading my filter to a stronger one and they must have spent three solid days playing in the current, almost obsessively, with flushed colours. Very odd.

**MandyK** · 02-08-2013, 12:35 AM

Cermet: No problems.  The only thing you guys did was help me to realize that I’m just NOT that dedicated to raising such a sensitive fish. I like them, but I need something that I have time to really enjoy, instead of worrying about all the time.

Firefly: That is a good possibility. We shall see.

Sandz: Those are very pretty! I’ve never seen those before.

Carapar: I’m thinking about 10 now.