4 Bn's

[The young one]

Hi, I currently have 2 female bristlenose catfish in my 200l tank and I also have 1 male and 1 female in my upstairs tank.

I am shutting down the upstairs tank and wandered if I could add the two from the upstairs tank to the 200l?

Thanks in advance
Joe

 

[indigoj]

Shouldn't be a problem, though if they breed all 3 females could produce eggs!

What is your other stocking?

 

[Davo86]

Hi, What else is in the tank?
plecs are messy fish as i'm sure you know, but provided the tank isn't overly stocked already and has ample filtration then they should be ok together

 

[The young one]

I have 7 neons, 4 black phantoms, 2 keyhole cichlids, 1 pearl gourami, 1 dwarf gourami, 2 kribs. It's 240l not 200l.

Thanks
Joe

 

[indigoj]

hmmm... 4 bn may be a bit much then

 

[Davo86]

with what filtration?

In most cases you should be fine to add all 4,
The tank is very understocked IMO with only the kribs occupying the lower levels

 

[indigoj]

The dwarf gourami too - I was thinking if the kribs and keyholes are pairs and the bns breed there would be territory issues.

 

[The young one]

It's an Aquis 1000. It's an amazon tank that I bought from world of water.

The kribs are breeding but we are getting rid of them soon, the keyholes definately aren't a pair, they hate each other.

 

[MiB1986]

I one 110l tank i have:
2 x adonis
1 x candy
2 x BN
1 x common

the adonis and common are only there till they grow but give them places to take control of, personally im tight so use coconuts with a bit of plant growing on them, get them from any reptile shop for pence, the ones you see in fish tanks are normally five times the price,

just buy the reptile ones and boil them for about 5 mins to remove the colouring like with bogwood. then arrange the tank in different corners etc...

personally id also used an additinoal filter just to boost cleaness/water quality. ie a fluval 2+ or something capable of half your tanks volume so its enough help but not too much that ti hinders the main filter.

when mixing plecos i am also very concerned and watch them, as long theirs no serious fighting taking place i wouldnt worry too much, also when you feed, spread algae waffers/veg, in seperate pieces opposite ends/sides of the tank, so they dont feel they need to compete for food.

i may be talking carp but its always worked for me and i have several tanks with several plecos in, some agressive ie adonis are very terrorital and some peaceful. BN are/can be agressive little sods for the size of them.