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Thank you for giving me so much advice! That interaction of the pygmys and otos sounds really cool! I don't have interest in setting up a second tank rn as this is my first tank, but it looks like if I keep the hardness around 8 dGH all the fish will be healthy. Advice taken for the...

The seriouslyfish website does not have a page for normal otos. Other sources I have found just say not to go above 8 dGH, which is exactly the same as the Cories and exactly what my tank is currently at. I can also easily reduce the amount of crushed coral to bump it down a tad so it's not...

Will otos work at this hardness?

Does he disrupt your plants at all? I think crayfish are cool, but I've heard that crayfish can be a little destructive in a planted tank. (I'm new to this, this is a question not a criticism)

I actually use that type of food, but what I've found is that it seems to be intended for an all-shrimp tank, and that in a community tank with not-a-ton of shrimp the fish are very likely to find it before the shrimp do. Between concern for the shrimp and noticing how much more excited the...

I will definitely be using that SeriouslyFish website!

Thanks for all the advice! I think I will go ahead and pick up those pygmy cories, but I will try to alter hardness to be a little bit softer. Those rosy loaches look very tempting tho! Especially because they look like a cross between cories and otos, which I would also really like to get. If I...

I have a 20 long with platys, zebra danios, WCMMs, and cherry shrimp. I recently rescaped it and wanted some bottom feeders to grace its terrain, so I ordered 6 pygmy corys at the LFS which will be here to pick up on Wednesday. But, I just read that most corys, including pygmies, prefer soft...

Hi, forgot to reply until now but thanks for the advice! After some consideration I've decided to get platys instead.

A note; as far as I can tell my tank *could* support the larger mollies, I'd just rather have something that would have a little more room in the tank.

Hi, I'm setting up my first aquarium (20long planted freshwater); at the moment I've got cherry shrimp, zebra danios, and a couple of white cloud mountain minnows (plan to get more so they're not lonely) but I'm planning to get something a little bigger for the tank in the future. I'm drawn to...

New aquarist here, I got a used 20 long tank in october and have set it up with plants, a cool stick, Zebra Danios, Cherry and Rili Shrimp, and some White Cloud Mountain Minnows. Long term plans are to add a few swordtails/mollies (I especially like the mottled orange/black ones) and possibly...