Shanrad Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Hey everyone recent purchased a 6*2*2 tank setup roughly 650 litres, i am aiming for a dwarf cichlid community accompanied by tetras and cats to make a nice feature tank. Water is already conditioned, i am running a nautilus 2700uvc cannister filter with 2 internal canister filter to help pick up so excess waste. Ph currently 6.4 was sitting at 6.8 but it dropped to the addition of conditioning salts i believe, Ammonia level is 0 and all other levels seemed fine when i had them checked. The tank has tahian moon black sand bottoms with 2 Larger, 3 Medium and multiple smaller pieces of drift wood filling the tank (Photos to come).Current stock Bottom Feeders2 Royal Whiptail Catfish4 Pepper Corydoras 4 Bronze Corydoras 5 Bristlenose 3 Clown loach 3 Siamese flyingfox1 Pakistani LoachCichlids7 Apistogramma cacatuoides (3m,4f) 6 Blue rams (2m, 4f)3 Bolivian butterfly cichlids (1m, 2f)2 Electric blue acara (???)Tetras54 Neon tetra16 (red/blue)columbian tetras6 black neon tetra.Currently posting because i would like to learn from this community and combine it with my passion for my little Dwarf cichlids to make my tank the best possible.current thoughts, i am definatly going to have a small break before adding any more fish as i want to continue planting my tank out and provide excess hiding spaces before adding anymore cichlids but i would like to add a few more Dwarf species in similiar numbers, i am also going on random pet shop advise with these "Blue Neon/Electric Blue Acaras" so if anyone knows how these 2 will end up once grown will be good, so far they are keeping to themselves nicely, putting up with my blue ram following it constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Welcome to ACE Forums Shanrad. Great first post and I can't wait to see the photos. You may find that the Electric Blue Acara will bully some of the smaller fish once they get a bit of size on them and may even see them as food. I understand that these a less aggressive that the Blue Acara but will still have some of the same traits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanrad Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 Yeah i got them as an experiment, at the moment they are content with swimming around the tank and going up and down the corners, my only issue with them is my Blue rams boys are Way, Way, Way too keen on them, one in particular spends half of time stalking and intercepting them, so was thinking of removing them for that reason itself, thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perherfile Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 I have Kribensis to spare (they just keep breeding!) that would go nicely with what you have. PM me if you want some small ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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