Fish Stocking

[Diab2005]

Very few aquarium fish are bred in the UK. Most come from Asia where water, heat and labour are cheap. Some come from Germany and some are locally bred, but the number of local bred fish is tiny (probably less than 1%).

A GH of 125ppm is at the top end of soft water and is fine for tetras, rasboras, Corydoras and peacock gudgeons. It is not suitable for livebearers so don't get any of them.

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What are the tank dimensions (length x width x height)?

No to the clown killis. They are too small and require live and frozen foods.

Only get 2 (1 male & 1 female) Honey or Indian banded gouramis. Never have more than 1 species of labyrinth (Bettas & gouramis) in the same tank because they are highly territorial.

Don't add Otocinclus until the tank has been set up for at least 4 months.

Hi
Yea ive accepted the soft water issue now and moved on. The honey gourami point you made conflicts with my research, I know the issue you raised is a problem with dwarf gourami but apparently honeys like groups of 4-6 which is why I suggested 4 originally. How can killis be too small but neons not?

 

[Diab2005]

Sorry tank dimensions are: The tank measures up at 86cm wide across the front, 60cm from front to back measured along the sides of the tank and 58cm deep from top to bottom. (Its a corner unit)

 

[Wills]

No to the clown killis. They are too small and require live and frozen foods.

Don't add Otocinclus until the tank has been set up for at least 4 months.

I used to feed my Clowns micro pellets and they did well - am I missing something?

Agree with the ottos though - very tricky fish to keep given how common they are now.

Wills

 

[Diab2005]

I used to feed my Clowns micro pellets and they did well - am I missing something?

Agree with the ottos though - very tricky fish to keep given how common they are now.

Wills

Colin im also interested in this as I'm pretty invested in getting these fish now, if they do need live food though then I will be avoiding them. Pellets would work though

 

[Diab2005]

Instead of the clown killis could I get 2 of these bluefin notho killifish??

 

[itiwhetu]

I used to feed my Clowns micro pellets and they did well - am I missing something?

Agree with the ottos though - very tricky fish to keep given how common they are now.

Wills

My clowns got flake food, and if they behaved they got mosquito larvae

 

[Diab2005]

My clowns got flake food, and if they behaved they got mosquito larvae

Good to know maybe they're still on then, do you know anything about blue notho killis? They actually look really cool and from research would seem to be ok in soft water. Max temp is 24 but my tank is running at that so don't think that would be an issue. Sizewise I think I could only have 2

 

[Diab2005]

Scrap that just read they are not good community fish. Ill get the clowns and see how that goes