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As some of you might remember, I had Ich trouble recently. Well the ich combined with an unexplainable snail infestation (had no snails in the tank before the ich) has completely killed everything in my tank.

But as narky as I am about that, I figure this gives me the perfect chance to choose different fish. I've completely stripped my tank and am boiling the driftwood and gravel and pretty much everything that was in that tank.

My LFS has gotten in sids and clowns for the first time, and much as I want them both I know I'd never fit clowns in there happily. The tank is 1'wide by 1'deep by 2'tall approx 60L. If I can have sids, how many could I have? If I couldnt apart from kuhlies are there any other loaches I could have in there?

I'm debating whether to ditch the gravel I currently have and go for either smaller gravel or sand. Any suggestions?

Oh wow! Bad news....that's rotten.

It doesn't get better either.....Your tank to be honest is totally unsuitable for any loaches. If it was 2 feet long, by 1 foot by 1 foot, I would suggest a few kuhlis, but that's it.

Footprint is the biggest requirement with any bottom-living fish. One square foot of floor space just doesn't cut it with loaches.

Martin.

I thought as much.... Its just a pain having it deeper then it is wide >_< My brother inlaw made it and I dont want to upset him by asking if he can take out one of the sides and make it a 'long' one.

Ahh well...... Next time ^_^

It gets even worse. If you have boiled everything, especially after having nuked it for ich, you won't have much boi-filtration left, if any.

Yeah.... I've gotta start it from scratch. My sister inlaws offered to give me some of her gravel to kickstart the cycle tho.

Had to boil the rocks, didn't want to put new fish in a tank that still might be contaminated by either snails or ich

if your sister in law has an established tank just put your new filter in her tank for a week and then take it to your tank.

Setsuna wrote:As some of you might remember, I had Ich trouble recently. Well the ich combined with an unexplainable snail infestation (had no snails in the tank before the ich) has completely killed everything in my tank.

But as narky as I am about that, I figure this gives me the perfect chance to choose different fish. I've completely stripped my tank and am boiling the driftwood and gravel and pretty much everything that was in that tank.

My LFS has gotten in sids and clowns for the first time, and much as I want them both I know I'd never fit clowns in there happily. The tank is 1'wide by 1'deep by 2'tall approx 60L. If I can have sids, how many could I have? If I couldnt apart from kuhlies are there any other loaches I could have in there?

I'm debating whether to ditch the gravel I currently have and go for either smaller gravel or sand. Any suggestions?

Hi there and sorry for you loss, that is really a bummer. It is so hard to start all over, been there, done that. IMHO, I wouldn't worry too much about the changing the gravel if you can't have loaches, that is if you are happy with the substrate you have now, if not, this would be a great time to switch to something you like more.

Good luck,
Kris

Sorry to hear it Setsuna.
Angelfish need a tall tank. If you plant it, and switch to a sand substrate you could keep a pair in there. To get a pair, though, you'd need 6 juveniles, wait till they pair off, then you could return the other four if the lfs was up for that. They will frequently take back larger angels because they can get a good price for them.

Just a thought.

you dont even need a pair..

she could just get one angel and a few corys...maybe some small tetras?
that would be cool in a tall tank...

-brett.

brett_fishman wrote:you dont even need a pair..

she could just get one angel and a few corys...maybe some small tetras?
that would be cool in a tall tank...

-brett.

angelfish would eat the tetras, especia;lly if they were small ones

i didnt mean neons..

i meant glowlight or rummynose...

for example:
1 angelfish
6 glowlight tetras
6 peppered corys

-brett.

Thanks for the ideas guys. The LFS has given me AU$72 store credit for all the fish that I lost, but I think I'll use that on my lizards and buy the fish and tank related stuff from the other LFS that I've never had a drama with.

Keep the suggestions comming, got ages to decide before the tanks ready ^_^