i know this is off topic but i just wanted to see a picture of a rustic poster of a shrimp in a stetson with a mustache and undearneath reading "wanted dead or alive 10,000 dollar reward"
Would 3 silver dollars be better than the 5 gold barbs or would they get nipped?
hm hadnt considered doubt theyd get nipped yeh that could work although there may be some slight mutual aggresion between the fish species if you know what i mean but no more than normal with tiger barbs
try putting your filter sponge in the other filter after about a week or two it should have sufficient bacterial colonies to support a few fish but you wont be able to get loads of fish then e.g 6 i might be able to tell you what would be good to put in after you have moved around the sponges...
generally ive heard there favourite food is snails i believe that it is one of the reasons they have beaks the other is so larger puffers can eat crustaceans
for a show fish you might be able to have a blue or opaline gourami and just hope for the best after all it is quite often possible to return fish if things dont go well as you said your friend has kept fish in one of the most unlikely partnerships and its worked out fine so a gourami and...
welcome to the forum have you considereed online ordering although its not highly recomendd its definetely better than walmart and has many more types of fish availible
it could be shock from the temperature change but then again in the wild that would be normal itcould be all the combined things together from what ive heard allot of things happend at once a water change temperature change and rescape(btw i think it looks really good now)
the small spotted cories will most likely be pygmys i think youre maxed out apart from maybe a few more the ghost shrimp are probably just lost in that tank somewhere the only fish that would of have ate them would be the rams you will need a second opinion on the rams as i know virtually...
i think smaller water changes will help on a tank that size 25% a week should be fine if the nitrate keeps going up though increase the water chaange amount if you have to do this try 5% at a time
i thinkl they use external filtration in those pics or turn the filters of one solution is maybe to put the filter so it is on on another side of the tank this will mean they will stay vertically upright and you still get nice flow saying plants e.t.c
if you want a plant to fill up allot of space vallis can be really good but it will need to be removed occcasionally as it will spread any type that will be good as when they reach the surface they start laying accros it (easy to get around just cut them off at a little lower then the waters...