I'm going to set up a 20 gallon dwarf cichlid tank and have filtration question.
Would you put 2 sponge filters for 10g in so that each territory has their own food supply for fry or would you still have a single one for 20g and move it depending on where the pair spawns? Or use a 20g and 10g sponge so that you have one cycled for a grow out tank that I might be adding in a year or so. For now I will just leave the fry in the main tank and hope for survival. I'm still narrowing down my population; it'll be either 1 pair of german blue rams or kribs, or a harem of 4 apistogramma cacatuoides with 6-8 black neon tetras as dithers and some kind of cleaning crew. I'm probably going to start out with 4-6 juvies of one of the three and see which pair up. Which filter option would be preferred in order to keep the water movement at a proper level too?
Option 1: 2 x 10g sponge
Option 2: 1 x 20g sponge
Option 3: 1 x 10g and 1 x 20g sponge
Would you put 2 sponge filters for 10g in so that each territory has their own food supply for fry or would you still have a single one for 20g and move it depending on where the pair spawns? Or use a 20g and 10g sponge so that you have one cycled for a grow out tank that I might be adding in a year or so. For now I will just leave the fry in the main tank and hope for survival. I'm still narrowing down my population; it'll be either 1 pair of german blue rams or kribs, or a harem of 4 apistogramma cacatuoides with 6-8 black neon tetras as dithers and some kind of cleaning crew. I'm probably going to start out with 4-6 juvies of one of the three and see which pair up. Which filter option would be preferred in order to keep the water movement at a proper level too?
Option 1: 2 x 10g sponge
Option 2: 1 x 20g sponge
Option 3: 1 x 10g and 1 x 20g sponge