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Well, as simple as:

Will 6 botia kubotai work with 5 yoyo loaches in a 93 gallon tank? I accidentaly got 4 kubotais and 1 yoyo instead of 5 kubotais from the store, and I've fallen in love with the yoyo, messing my tank up.

Thanks!

Johan

is that imperial galls Johan?.
if it is i'm sure you would be alright, i'd up your waterchanges as they'll eat like pigs.


mick

Imperial Galls? What does that mean? Sorry, english aint my main language xD

Anyways, I'm doing 30% waterchanges every saturday (So much for a free day huh ) I think that would do it

could you give me the dimensions of your tank mate, then i can work the gallonage out, i'd do at least 3 water changes per week as a minimum,
if your going to feed greens or fruit you'll know why bud.

mick

Oh, you mean gallons, then say so!

138x41x61 CM. I know its 350 litres anyway.

Are you sure I need that much waterchanges? It's gonna be hard as I'm using a plant growth thingie, so i give the plants alot of nutrition, then i do a big waterchange to remove some of the nutrition not used, and then add more. If you see what I'm saying? Using Poor Mans Dupla Drops.

EDIT: The loaches are the only bottom-dwelling fishes I have in the tank, so I'd say there's enough space alright, right?

Johanski wrote:Imperial Galls? What does that mean? Sorry, english aint my main language xD

oh, i think I know...
1 British Gallon or Imperial Gallons = 4.54609188 liter
1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liter

I mean US gallons then!

hi bud, from what you've wrote ,you want a planted tank with quite a few botias and imo you can only have one of them.
in my tank i only have one decent clump of java fern, the reason for this is i also keep barbs in with the botias and they love eating plants.
i love to see a planted tank but it comes at a price,( less fish )
55 US gallons needs to be well managed by you to keep the fish you want in it.
i have a 120 Imperial gallonan tank with far to many fish in it, so to counteract that it gets at least 3 big water changes per week.
i hope this has'nt put you of but i think for the welfare of your fish you would have to do a similar regime of WC per week.

mick

Thanks for your help mate, really appreciated. I've had my barbs for almost two months now and they haven't touched my plants. I feed them alot of green. I might just have gotten lucky, my plants are fine!

ANyways, today I went to buy 4 more yoyos, which i did. I'll have to live with changing alot of water, but as it is now it's not too heavy stocked in there. And I have 8.5 litres of filter material, that's quite a nice amount. The new yoyos are chasing barbs aswell, I love them.

I had something like that at one point and it went very well no real fighting or anything.