RE: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #476

To: "'Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com'" <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
Subject: RE: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #476
From: Mike Roberts <mroberts at shasta_edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 22:26:04 -0800

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From: 	Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com
Sent: 	Saturday, January 25, 1997 12:39 PM
To: 	Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: 	Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #476

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From: MMacG1167 at aol_com
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:48:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Fish load question

I have a 55 gallon tank with a vermiculite/soil mix covered with gravel.
Lighting is provided by 4 40w daylight tubes that are on for 13 hrs =
20min a
day. CO2 injection is by a canister with an airline tube to a powerhead =
that
sprays it out into the tank. Filtration is by a Magnum 220 with gravel =
in the
chamber. I add PMDD everyday, with roughly 33% water changes every week. =
The
plants are a large Amazon sword, dwarf and pygmy swords, red ludwigia, =
rotala
macandra, water sprite, ambulia, bacopa, red crypt wendtii, hornwort, =
and
corkscrew vallisneria. The fish popualtion is 7 neon tetras, 6 otos, 2 =
black
neons, 2 white cloud mountain fish, 2 red eye tetras, 2 lemon tetras, 1
betta, 1 clown loach, 1 pleco, and 1 flying fox. I feed them once a day =
with
Tetra Ruby and, infrequently,  freeze-dried bloodworms and algae wafers. =
My
question is, for this kind of setup would this be considered a moderate =
or
heavy fish load (I assume it wouldn't be considered light), and if it is
heavy, how heavy? Would it not be advisable to add any more similarly =
sized
fish (hatchetfish, danios, barbs, rasboras or other tetras for example)? =
How
about any larger fish types (gouaramis, angelfish, etc.)?
One quick unrelated question, will neon and cardinal tetras school =
together?

                                 =20
                                                Thanks for any help,

                                                                 Matt
MacGregor

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Matt=09

I would say that with the amount of plant life you have your fish load =
is light. Neon's will school with cardinals, but you are mixing cool =
water fish with warm water fish. White Clouds like cooler water then =
tetras & Neon's like cooler water then Cardinal Tetras. Neon's lives are =
often shortened when kept at to high a temp, such as with Discus. =
Cardinals lives are shortened when kept at lower temp. You should try to =
keep your fish and plants as closely matched to your temp. & water =
parameters as you can. Gouaramis & Angelfish like higher temps.          =
                                                                         =
           									                                   Mike Roberts      =
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                     In not so sunny Redding, Northern Ca..

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