20 gallon long sulawesi tank

[fishman1]

So far the tank has been running for about a week or two. I've been using juvenile convicts (cichlids not kids) to cycle the tank.

Update 2/15 got rid of convicts
Update 2/18 got 5 cardinals from tim all seem to be doing fine
Update 2/19 saw my first exoskeleton
Update 2/24 got 15 more cardinals
Update 3/20 found 2 berries females
Update 4/29 spotted babies and 2 more berried females

Filtration
Aquaclear 70
UGF

Soil
Aragonite

Lava Rocks
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[eklikewhoa]

Whoa...that's a lot of lava rock!

You plan on planting on top of it?

[fishman1]

some anubias and yup thats quite a bit

[eklikewhoa]

Have you thought about moss? Since the tank isn't set up completely with livestock you could chop up some moss and sprinkle it onto the mounds with the water level dropped below the mounds and allow them to attach for the mean time.

Just keep the rocks humid by saran wrapping the top and it'll be like a mossy mountain side!

[eklikewhoa]

Would give more real estate for the shrimp to graze too

[fishman1]

Moss growing in 80-82 degree water and in 8 ph dont really think so unless it's java moss but that would be a cool idea. The reason I used a ton of rocks is because Cardinal shrimp or from what I read like rocky areas and love to have little hiding places.

[eklikewhoa]

Put a bit of flow in there and it'll grow

[fishman1]

[fishman1]

update full of algae = heaven for shrimp and snails!

[myjohnson]

Why not just clean the front?

[fishman1]

yeah I might but bit lazy

[myjohnson]

So...when you getting the shrimps?

[fishman1]

hopefully next week I need to find a place to put the honduran convicts

[myjohnson]

In the toilet....

[fishman1]

no!