Synchronized wrote:TNHawke wrote: The biowheel ones are decent, but the best seem to be the cannister type filters- although those will usually be overkill in anything smaller than 50 gallons.
They do make smaller canisters-- on my 32 gallon tank I have a Eheim ecco pro rated for 35 gallon paired with an AquaClear 50. I'd only gotten it because it was on clearance for $50 at my store and that's super cheap for a good canister, haha. I'm going to upgrade to something like 60-80 gallon canister eventually because I have having two running at once. "Overkill" isn't bad in a tank-- the more extra filtration you have the better, and if the intake is a little too strong it's only a matter of putting something over it(pantyhose or prefilter, maybe) to prevent fish getting stuck. Is the water pouring out is too strong, you just baffle it. The water from a canister's tube generally comes out in a very thin stream depending on the make so current from the water usually isn't too much of a problem for most tropical fish(and some like strong currents, regardless).
Anyway, on to my stuff:
Setups:
32 Gallon Bowfront
- Tropical community, slowly crossing over to Tropical semi-aggressive
5.5 Gallon
- Guppy breeding and ghost shrimp currently, switching to dwarf shrimp in the near future
I have four tanks in sizes .5 gal, .9 gal, 1 gal, 1.5 gal all housing bettas. The .5 will be upgraded soon.
What kinds of fish you have kept : Tropical freshwater. I have some brackish fish too so there's a tiny bit of salinity in the two bigger tanks.
How about other aquatic friends: I have billions of snails. This infestation sucks. I also keep freshwater shrimp and may get clams in the future.
Don't forget the plants:
32 Gallon Will be changing soon, I'm in the middle of revamping my tank.
- 2 large Anubias
- 8 or so small Wisteria
- 2 Aponogeton
- 5 or so small Amazon Swords
- 2-3 clumps of Dwarf Saggitarius
- 1 Crypt, unsure of species
- a few clumps of hair grass here and there
- 2-3 small Java Ferns
- Duckweed
- 2 Marimo, one of which is flattened out and used as a house by my kuhliis.
- 1 Water Ivy
5.5 gal
- 1 Crypt parva
- 1 Marimo
- JAVA MOSS AND CHRISTMAS MOSS EVERYWHERE OH MY GOD
3 of the betta tanks have small Anubias in them, and the 1 gallon has small Java Ferns and Christmas/Java Moss.
I dose all of my tanks with Seachem Flourish and API C02 Booster, occasionally push in Seachem Flourish tabs/API Root tabs into the gravel for the rooted plants. Soon to get Seachem Excel because I have a breakout of black beard algae that needs treating, and I can't find siamese algae eaters or american flagfish in my area.
What kinds of fish are, and are not compatible in your experience? For the safety of smaller fish please don't attempt housing bettas in communities. And keep them far away from gouramis.
Also beware housing different species of gouramis together.
Fish Health: The only thing I could catch in time to treat was fin rot for my oldest betta. I just used erithromycin.
Why : it's pretty :V
Anyway, here's pictures:
32 gal
5.5 gal
The bettas + other random fish pictures: most of these are from before I started revamping/before i moved some bettas around
![Image](http://i49.tinypic.com/2exwnc6.jpg)
bumblebee catfish
![Image](http://i46.tinypic.com/16gdb9s.jpg)
variatus platy with albino cory in the background
![Image](http://i45.tinypic.com/359yhc3.jpg)
some harlequin rasboras and danios
![Image](http://i47.tinypic.com/2d286mc.jpg)
kuhlii, another cory in background
![Image](http://i48.tinypic.com/2wc465l.jpg)
trilineatus corys, kuhlii loach, mystery and zebra nerite snail
![Image](http://i45.tinypic.com/2lb2afd.jpg)
powder blue dwarf gourami
![Image](http://i48.tinypic.com/dlsvaq.jpg)
Halfmoon, Tager.
![Image](http://i46.tinypic.com/2wfjyx5.jpg)
Dragonscale, Hui
![Image](http://i45.tinypic.com/2r5x1mx.jpg)
Marble veiltale, Cho
![Image](http://i45.tinypic.com/2dkagdv.jpg)
Veiltail, Columbus AND HIS STUPID FISH FACE.