Hugo kamashi bow front tank 60 or 80 litres??

[Luckycatfish]

I hello again. I recently joined, along with my new baby catfish "Lucky". I just need some help as silver surfer now, on problems with what, seems to be a now obsolete tank that i only bought from local dealer in 2018. Its a Hugo kamshi bow front glass tank. Its 24 inches in length, but deep at 20 inches and around 11inches wide. I think the capacity was 60- 80 litres, but honest not sure. I expected parts and other things to be available for this tank for many years. However it doesn't appear on the Kamashi site, there seems to be no replacement parts for the top filter. I cant get the box sponges that are 7cm x 7 cm. i have to use cut up halfs, but Its lost its really good filtering property's but have refilled the ceramic box in the middle. It just dont filter like it used to, churning out masses of tiny pieces into the water. I decided in the end to supplement it with a cool two sponge (built in two small ceramic pots, run off my powerful Eheim air pump.

Bought a kit, so Icould pipe air to the new filter, and a valve to slow aeration block output. Its seems to be working the water hasnt got so many floating pieces, but the booklet I got with the tank was so useless I binned it a long time ago.

However just need to know about stocking, a thing I know little about now. I would love half a dozen of these cute cherry shrimps. I am reliably informed that my catfish wont eat the adults. But would like to ask an expert if Im ok to add them. So what I have is 8 small Serpae Tetras. 5 fully grown harlequin, 3 adult leopard corys and one junior "Lucky". So If I add these shrimps am I within stocking limits

?? maybe some tech person can work out my gallons or litres from the tanks dimensions. Im putting in a few more tall plants at the back as bit too open midwater. The only artifical plant in there is the front clump on the front left.....Here's a photo of the whole tank. thanks very much on any information or advice on anything could do better???

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

The other fish would likely be okay with shrimp, even if they ate the odd shrimplet -except for the serbae... serbae are relatively aggressive and nippy, and would probably have a field day hunting down and picking apart shrimp I'm afraid. I'm open to hearing that I'm wrong if someone has kept them together, I just wouldn't risk it I don't think.

Cherry shrimp are wonderful though, perhaps consider getting a little nano tank for shrimp only? Then they don't need a great of space, a cheap sponge filter is more than adequate for filtration and aeration, and you'll see them out in the open more. In a tank with fish, they're more prone to hiding away in plants to try to avoid predation.

You can use this calculator to work out the volume of a bowfront tank

Bowfront tank calculator

Bow front aquarium volume calculator.

www.fishtanksandponds.co.uk

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Luckycatfish]

Thanks!!! I had no idea Serpias were nippy. I actually like them as I found they inhabit both middle and lower parts of the tank. I always thought barbs were nippers. "Oh your quite right" I just found a little information: "But other unassuming fish can be fin nippers too. Avoid Serpae tetras, Blue tetras and Skunk botia. ".......darn!!! I have a very small sheltered flat, me and wife just manage as it is, so a second tank how ever small would not be possible. have to look into more less fragile invertebrates.??? Thanks so much for the advice. (Add, great calculator, it is around 80 litres as I thought, however Im an imperial person, hate metric haha

 

[Essjay]

Serpaes are just about the nippiest tetras we can buy. I bought some once and within a day every other fish had bits missing. They went back to the shop.

The length of the tank - 24 inches/60 cm is the critical dimension for stocking. Volume is secondary to this. Research fish by looking them up on Seriously Fish - this gives things like the minimum tank length, water parameters etc.
If this was my tank, I would rehome the serpaes and get more harlequins; and increase the cory numbers If you did this, shrimps would be fine.