Sad But Happy

[bnoel210]

Well i have decided to expand some more today. Here in the near future ill be selling all the fish in my 72gal bowfront
3 Ghost Catfish
2 Pitbull Pleco
4 Spotted Corys
5 Congo Tetras
4 Otocinculas
2 Australian Rainbows
2 Turquoise Rainbows
Pair of Kribensis
If you are interested in any please let me know and how much you want them for. I do have to sell these to help pay for my new fish which brings us to part two

In a week or so ill be picking up some new multis that will be in my 29gal for a little while till my 72 is ready. What will be a good mix of fish with the multis? I like the calvus and julis, but your opinion would help.

Also what kind of rocks should be good for tangs. I know my multis need a bed of shella, but can i use the slate that is already in the tank and whats the best way to set it up? Thank you for your help!

[rickl]

Sept 16, 2011 19:04:28 GMT -6 bnoel210 said:

In a week or so ill be picking up some new multis that will be in my 29gal for a little while till my 72 is ready. What will be a good mix of fish with the multis? I like the calvus and julis, but your opinion would help.

Also what kind of rocks should be good for tangs. I know my multis need a bed of shella, but can i use the slate that is already in the tank and whats the best way to set it up? Thank you for your help!

Good choice . I'm hoping to get some multies as well. Either julies or calvus should work in your 29, but not both. I'm not entirely sure that a full grown calvus pair will happily share the tank with a sizable multifasciatus colony, but it sounds like you're planning to move these fish to the 72 eventually? Calvus grow slow, so you should have plenty of time if you start with juvies .

Slate should be fine -- if I were doing it, I'd try to layer the slate to make a bunch of flat caves, just tall enough for an adult juli to fit in... I'd probably fill them up mostly with sand so the julies can dig out a cave to suit themselves .

I've got some retaining-wall rocks that I'm planning to use, but still debating how to set them up... it will be more difficult to do horizontal caves than it would be with slate.

Enjoy your new fish!!!

-Rick (the armchair aquarist)

[bnoel210]

Ya none of the other tangs will be in the 72 just the multis till i can find new homes for the fish in there now.

[bnoel210]

I ment the 29. The 72 will be my tang tank and the 29 ill turn into a tang growout tank for the fish i want to sell/trade

[mruble]

I would not keep calvus or julies in a tank with multies - unless you are not planning on the multie colony expanding. My multie colony currently has four juvenile black calvus, but they will have to go eventually. I would look at cyprichromis or paracyprichromis to go in with the multies. Your slate leaned at angles against the back glass will serve paracyprichromis rather well. A 72 gl should be able to house a large multie colony - a hundred individuals at a minimum.

[glenoweth]

Multies are fun fish! wheen i set up my 100gal i had multies, cyprichromis, xenos, occies,and juli bemba, but once they started growing out i had to redo the tank it was fine for growing them out though. The multies will take over the tank as the colony gets bigger and nothing can get near them. I have now moved the multies, Occies, and all the shells out of my 100gal. It only has Xenos, cyprichromis, and I just added my Moba frontosa to grow out in there.

Calvus,a nd comps grow vry slow! like 1" per year