Hi,
As the title says I am looking for advice on transitioning my tank.
Currently I have a 25G tank with 1 platy and lots of java fern. This tank has been setup and going for the past 6 years and originally had about 5 platys and 5 neon tetras. Nothing too crazy but it looked nice. Especially with the java ferns.
Over the past 6 years I have slowly lost fish I'm assuming to age, since they always were healthy one day and gone the next.
Okay so now to the actual point where I need some advice.
SImply put, I want to clean the tank and transition it to a new stocking.
The current tank walls currently have lots of algae, and does not have a deep enough substrate (1 inch of sand) for any rooted plants. I do not know how to do it while I still have the platy and I want to avoid a cycle. But I am mostly worried about the platy.
I want to restock the tank with a gourami, some rasbora's or tetras and maybe two or three cory's. I am also playing with the idea of putting some dwarf cichlid's instead. I also wanted to put some plants like swords etc.
Let me know if the stocking makes sense or if there are other stocking ideas I can play with.
Thanks for your advice in advance.
Edit in green.
As the title says I am looking for advice on transitioning my tank.
Currently I have a 25G tank with 1 platy and lots of java fern. This tank has been setup and going for the past 6 years and originally had about 5 platys and 5 neon tetras. Nothing too crazy but it looked nice. Especially with the java ferns.
Over the past 6 years I have slowly lost fish I'm assuming to age, since they always were healthy one day and gone the next.
Okay so now to the actual point where I need some advice.
SImply put, I want to clean the tank and transition it to a new stocking.
The current tank walls currently have lots of algae, and does not have a deep enough substrate (1 inch of sand) for any rooted plants. I do not know how to do it while I still have the platy and I want to avoid a cycle. But I am mostly worried about the platy.
I want to restock the tank with a gourami, some rasbora's or tetras and maybe two or three cory's. I am also playing with the idea of putting some dwarf cichlid's instead. I also wanted to put some plants like swords etc.
Let me know if the stocking makes sense or if there are other stocking ideas I can play with.
Thanks for your advice in advance.
Edit in green.