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    Recommend bottom dwellers for 1 ft tank?

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    as im having a 1ft cube tank, would like to add some bottom dwellers to my tank..
    now having 2 bumblebee goby(which i had kept for months)
    please don't recommand me Pleacos or any fishes with the sucker fish type mouth..
    size must not be over 3-5cm long.. must not eat tetras and rasboras too... Thanks guys

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    Catfishes:

    Hara jerdoni
    Akysis prashadi
    Microglanis iheringi
    Bunocephalus coracoideus

    Alternatively you can get loaches or gobies..
    There's been quite a variety of gobies in lfs now (CF has a few)..



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    Corydoras habrosus - a pygmy Cory.

    But since you're looking for a bottom-dweller, I trust the bottom of your tank is not fully covered with plants and stuff.
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    i don't like cory.. they mess up with plants...
    ya, the bottom on my tank is not fully covered.. thus thinking of having bottom dweller..
    what other gobies can i keep expect bumblebee goby?

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    Bro, try CF..they have about 3-4 different species of gobies.
    Very nice and exotic.



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    Last edited by Quixotic; 11th Jun 2007 at 11:55.

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    need to know what they eat and will they attack other fishes anot..

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvolutionZ View Post
    i don't like cory.. they mess up with plants...
    This is mostly true if your plants are not rooted before the introduction of cories. If plants were already well established prior to their introduction, there should not be much problems (depending on the type of plants too).

    And Corydoras habrosus do not mess with plants at all. They are small, more or less about 2cm SL.

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    i gave 1 cory(black spot on its body and dark body colour) to my uncle last time.. and he kept in his planted tank
    the cory mess up and eat quite alot of his stem plant..

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    Eat plants? Uhm, something must be very wrong somewhere.

    In any case, C. habrosus definitely won't mess with the plants and they won't eat them!

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    ya.... thats why i was shocked to hear that when he angrily told me that..
    so i went down to his office and take alook and really.. his stem plant all went into a mess

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    Well, firstly, they don't eat plants. Secondly, they do mess up some plants, depending on what plants (e.g HC, riccia) and under certain circumstances.

    I don't like to speculate, but looking at these two things that was "observed", they are most probably not kept in the right conditions and being stressed.

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    my uncle's plant were those stem plant tied together in rows on SS mesh.. bought from C328
    Last edited by Quixotic; 15th Jun 2007 at 07:49. Reason: Remove immediate quote

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    it might be your other fish eating it as a source of food, not the cories

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    Quote Originally Posted by illumnae View Post
    it might be your other fish eating it as a source of food, not the cories
    Ya, I'm very interested to know which species of Corys eats plants.
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