This is very early stage of planning (about 14 months out) but I'm thinking of a tank that is 48x48x18 (lots of area) that has several groups of apistogramma. I intend to run the tank with ph around 6ish and tds around 30ish so the fishes can breed if they so desire. I'll probably have a large group of pygmy cory (probably 25 habrosus) with them and maybe a third group of apistogramma depending on how the initial two group works. I will probably exclude pleco and snail since they tend to eat the apisto eggs but might have a large group of ottos (15?) and a tetra - perhaps lemon or black neon as a upper level dither.
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winter temp would be around 75 and summer 80-81.
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As with all my tanks it will be heavily planted but no co2 injection (worried it would be problematic with the soft water); substrate would likely be soft yellow sand (caribsea sunset gold). I like moonlight but i find that the white substrate is objectionable to some fishes.
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I know that breeding generally doesn't work well with community tank conversely this tank would be quite large with lots of tight hiding spots so mabye...
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winter temp would be around 75 and summer 80-81.
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As with all my tanks it will be heavily planted but no co2 injection (worried it would be problematic with the soft water); substrate would likely be soft yellow sand (caribsea sunset gold). I like moonlight but i find that the white substrate is objectionable to some fishes.
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I know that breeding generally doesn't work well with community tank conversely this tank would be quite large with lots of tight hiding spots so mabye...