Ready For Comunity?

[guppler]

I'm planning to put the remaining hatchets in the comunity soon because i think my relatively poor water conditions in the quarantine have mor eto do with the 2 out of 4 dead ones than anything they came with. I can change water more often or get a bettter filter for the 10 g on my dresser, but I don't think the hatchets will fly out the hole around the filter in the comunity and I think they'd like it in there. I think the loaches would like it a lot, but I think they would be harder to see and might eat too many babies.
I've admired colies for a long time, and think they would have a ball swimming in and out of my ceramic ornaments, so I got one to try it out, and might get more later. I also got a yoyo, thinking they might hang out together, and because fishes with naturrally occurring writing on them are just too cool. I made my dad ID all my new critters using my books because he didn't believe me a few weeks ago when i told him there was a fish with the word "yoyo" on its sides. Later I told my brother to reach in and move the treasure chest because I had lotion on and see if he could read my fish. his wife and I had to clarify that he needed to actually lift it up to read the yoyo because he was trying to read the coolie and said it moved too fast.

So anyway, I've got these 6 hiding ghost shrimp that I think I'm ready to put in my algae ful guppy tank, and I think the remaining hatchets really want to go to the comunity, and if I wnat , I can put the frog in a critter keeper, but then I still have to decide if the loaches are moving to the comunity or staying where they are for a while. My gold fish are big enough to eat them, but the comunity and the guppies all have pretty small fry. One of the guppy tanks just had new fry a couple days ago and the cories have kids about every month from 3 or 4 months ago down to christmas eve, so they're pretty tiny and hanging out mostly in the gravel and under things, right where the loaches would be. Then there are the apple snails that just hatched around new years. I think loaches love to eat snails, don't they? It would be great if they would just eat the pesty species and leave most of the apples, but I don't think that's likely.
Should I risk the loaches in the comunity or plan on keeping the 10 gallon clean enough for them to stay there for the long term?
So far the yoyo is always hiding under the treasure chest axcept for some brief excursions, presumably to look for food at night and defend his territory a little. The coolie squirms all over more often and sometimes plays hide and seek with the frog behind the sponge filters, but I can't say I've definitely seen either of them actually eat. I think they do it when I'm not looking.

 

[guppler]

I'm really not replying to myself, i just wanted to add an update. I went ahead and cleaned out most of the green water and changed one of the 2 sponge filters and found all the critters. i moved both hatchets to the comunity and they look healthy, but so did the other 2 until they stopped moving. If it was a temperature problem, they should be better off in the comunity because it has a heater. the dead ones didn't look like they had anything wrong with them. there was a shrimp playing with one, but I'm pretty sure it only caught it after it was already dead. They didn't even look chewed. Anyway, the 6 shrimp are all in the girl guppy tank with the most recent fry because that's where all the algae is, but I might still have to scrape or get otos because it's getting hard to see the fry through the fuzzy green glass. i wouldn't mind having shrimp in other tanks too, but they can wait. I saw some "algae shrimp" at the store that cost about 10 times as much as the ghost shrimp and one was carying eggs, but I got the cheep familiar ones. maybe I should have gotten the other kind, but they weren't any more colorful and I didn't know the exact species or anything.
So now the tank next to the goldfish just has 1 frog and 2 loaches that are very good at hiding and a bunch of pesty snails that i'l try harder to reduce later because they probably contribute to the murky green water. I even gave most of their plants to the golfish because I couldn't even see the hatchets with all the green stuff, let alone the shrimp.
I feel better now that i can see through the water better, but I'm still thinking about trying the loaches and frog in the comunity. It's just that there are so many hiding places and tiny critters in there. i'm sure the loaches and frog would be happy, but I don't know if I would be as happy with them there.
I probably need at least 4 more hatchets now too. They seem to have difficulty finding each other. Last time I looked, 1 seemed fine, but the other was trying to interact with it's own reflection because it had lost its buddy. Once when they were upstairs, there were 2 hatchets inside a submerged critterkeeper with another on the other side of the seethrough wall. when the 2 swam away, the 1 tried to follow and kept bumping into the wall. i decided to take out the critter keeper for them, but before i reached in, the 2 hatchets swam back closer to their confused friend. Even at the store before I got any there was 1 marbled hatchet that had gotten into the next tank over (with silver hatchets , if I remember right.) The 1 was trying so hard to rejoin its friends and they were all hanging in a cluster right next to that wall until I pointed it out and they moved the poor loner back where he probably flew from. i just love marbled hatchets. they're even kinda colorful if you look closely.