Reply With QuoteI suggest getting that fish out too.. Its gonna eat the shrimps sooner or later...
Hi there. Recently got rid of all my fishes save 1.
Would this tank in this condition be suitable for CRS?
I had placed a few. So far saw 1 casulty.
Cannot really see the rest. All hidding.or maybe all
I suggest getting that fish out too.. Its gonna eat the shrimps sooner or later...
what soil you using?? check your ph level
haha, i thought i saw an ultra big sized oto in the middle of the tank in the second pictures. lol..
I suggest you should check the water condition first like Ph, Gh, Kh etc.
That is a SAE if I am not wrong.
Get otos instead, they are small and is the only reputated shrimp friendly fish by all.
By the way, Oto looks very much like CAE, just make sure you know how to tell the different as most fish shop sell juvenile CAE and they look very much like Oto.
i don't believe this is a problem of whether the tank setup suitable or not, it's more of a whether your environment is correct or not
do read up on their needs, i hope you have a chiller there. i believe you are using lapis gravel, but many people don't have good results as unlike other gravel eg ADA Amazonia, it doesn't bring down the pH to what CRS needs.
Hi Bro V200
I would strongly suggest you go thru the Sticky on keeping CRS, there are alot of inforamtion on setting up a new tank and what are the condition that CRS can take. Many expert here have put in alot of effort in putting up guides to newbie like us to start this hobbies, hence don't let it go to waste.
Once you read thru, you can start a thread on your setup and then, forumer here will be very willing to share with you if there are any add on from their own expereince.
Cheers & welcome to CRS keeping.
goody992828
That is a SAE. Previously I put cherrys in. One of them even stayed on this fish nose. It did not do anything to them.Originally Posted by crazyhanz
But my tetras ripped the cherries apart!!
Me using lapis sand. The thought to removing all the sand......what soil you using?? check your ph level
Me using lapis sand. The thought to removing all the sand.....and replant.....
That is a siamese algae eater. Had it for 3 years or more!
But it doesn't eat much algae.....
So meaning I need to get a test kit first right? If meaure only pH enough?
What is CAE?
Thanks for the heads up.i don't believe this is a problem of whether the tank setup suitable or not, it's more of a whether your environment is correct or not
do read up on their needs, i hope you have a chiller there. i believe you are using lapis gravel, but many people don't have good results as unlike other gravel eg ADA Amazonia, it doesn't bring down the pH to what CRS needs.
I know the most ideal condition would be to use amazonia gravel or similar, but the throught of tear down everything......very back breaking!
You guys are right though. But to check my water parameters. Thanks for advice.
Thanks man. Will see what I can do to acheive the required water parameters. Worse come to worse, need to tear down everything.....I hope that's the last resort....:P
I think he meant SAE.. Well, oto is a super friendly fish.. it does share the algae wafer i feed my RCS, except they randomly swam all over the places and bang into my hairglass haha..
This sae is very friendly as well. Cannot bear to remove it as it had been with me for many years. When i had it, it was 2cm. Now, it is about 15cm. As long as it does not harm the crs, i will leave it.
By the way, as mine is a built in filter, would the shrimplets (if i am so lucky) be sucked into the filter? I have seen small shrimps in the filter area before. But in those cases, the shrimps crawled into the compartment. They crawled out again later on. Do you know how to prevent it from happening?
I placed a filter before the inlet area. But that caused the pump to lose pressure and it was unable to pump the water thru the chiller.
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