nano freshwater fish?

[ometh]

Just curious where everyone gets theres and what not. I was thinking about venturing into planted tanks more because saltwater is getting kinda old till I can set up my big cube. So I wanted to know where do you get your guys and what are some species considered "nano" fish.

[black_knight]

Houston Aquarium Ware House and Fish Gallery often have "nano" fish. It really depends on the kind of set up you want.
What size tank? Shape? Do you plan on doing CO2? What kind of lighting are you thinking? Will it be heated? What kind of maintance are you willing to do?
Here are some under 1.5 inches: microrasboras, dwarf species of danios (Danio margaritatus)- a great beginer fish, non-anual killies, endlers, a bunch ovarious dwarf live bearers, dwarf wild bettas (coccina complex), parosphromenus (licorice gouramis)- need live food, darios (dwarf badis)- picky eaters, pea puffers, pygmy sun fish- needs live foods, brachygobius (bumble bee gobies), oryzias (rice fish), the list can go on...

[ometh]

Well shape will just be rectangular, no Co2, lighting will probably a duel t5, size will either be a 40 breeder, for the sake of it non heated for now and maybe when I get a bigger place I'll do both but for now non heated.

[black_knight]

In the world of freshwater 40gallon is a mid size tank. You can keep a lot more than nano fish in there. You may want to go with low light plants such as java moss, java ferns, Anubis they are hardy. Cryptocornes are low light but need a rich medium. They will wilt at first but when they acclimate they will grow back with a vengeance. Initially some ppl will put some stem plants in to control algae in higher light systems as slower growing plants establish themselves. I'm sure there a lot of more experienced plant ppl here that will chime in.
Maybe decide on a theme for the tank

[ometh]

Hmmm not sure on the theme. I do have a hillstream already in the making and the small locahes is what really caught my eye about nano fish and it's initially what I want to revolve around. maybe a few mid size fish to liven things up but, nothing to large. I might upgrade to a 4 bulb light then because I'm wanting more then just a few plants. figured the duel t5 would work. would I need to run c02 if I were to run higher output lights?

[black_knight]

If you want to do a hill stream theme, you'll want alot of flow. This can rob the tank of CO2. Valesneria will do ok, provided you up grade the light. You can do some dwarf neon rainbows, or pseudomugils (blue eyes- soo many to choose from), or various barbs (they get a little nippy). You may want to put a few round (don't put any thing sharp or jagged loaches have soft mouths that injure easily) around the plants, loaches push through the sand and gravel looking for food.
As for loaches. Heres a great website with lots of info.:

http://www.loaches.com/

[ometh]

nano freshwater fish?

Mmmhmmm I've done reading on them already and I have a tank aside for them already. I just wanted another tank to do planted and nano fish

[digitallinh]

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/tateurndina-ocellicauda/

Fish gallery had some as of last weekend!

[digitallinh]

http://www.sudeepmandal.com/hobbies/planted-aquarium/low-tech-planted-tank-guide/

This is basically two guides in one. There is another section if you want to run a 'carbon substitute' like seachem excel instead of co2 injection or non-co2.

I would highly advise against 4 t5 bulbs unless you want to grow algae. I have 2 t5s, excel and the light is raised about 6 inches over my tank from the ceiling to lower the light, and this is one of those 'crappy' zoo-med t5 fixtures (which only reflects 2 images of each bulb.)

[mnemenoi]

I use a high light fixture in a low tech set up, but it can be a pain until it all gets settled in and under control. We have 72 watts on a 10 gallon tank....

I usually get nano fish from nearly any store, they usually have 1 or 2 that might work. Fish Gallery, Fish Ranch, and HAW all have them. What really is important is choosing what you want and stopping the impulse buys. One bad selection or something out of the theme and it gets everything out of whack. With a 40 gallon, it would be awesome as your schooling fish can get a truly immense school.

[ometh]

I use a high light fixture in a low tech set up, but it can be a pain until it all gets settled in and under control. We have 72 watts on a 10 gallon tank....

I usually get nano fish from nearly any store, they usually have 1 or 2 that might work. Fish Gallery, Fish Ranch, and HAW all have them. What really is important is choosing what you want and stopping the impulse buys. One bad selection or something out of the theme and it gets everything out of whack. With a 40 gallon, it would be awesome as your schooling fish can get a truly immense school.

my thoughts exactly when i decided on a 40. I was thinking doing a school of fish, maybe a couple of pairs or trios of some show nano fish. maybe even a really beautiful dwarf cichild pair. Still not sure how I should go about this theme wise. I'll more then likely cover the whole tank in plants and I happen to find water clovers online so that'll be my main focus in plants.

[mistahoo]

Re: nano freshwater fish?

Rob is selling chain loaches. They look really nice in planted setups and aren't big.

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[ometh]

Rob is selling chain loaches. They look really nice in planted setups and aren't big.

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saw them and i was thinking about snagging them when I get a 40. are they still doing the sale at petco? doubt it but, never know

[armthehomeless]

Re: nano freshwater fish?

I have some extra CPDs.

[mistahoo]

saw them and i was thinking about snagging them when I get a 40. are they still doing the sale at petco? doubt it but, never know

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