Consider the following experiment:
Put 10 khulis into an established 10g tank for 10 days. Make sure that the tank has no plants and algae and you have a really good nitrate measurement kit. No water changes. The increase in the nitrates is your bioload.
Now, repeat the same procedure for 10 zebra danios (or some other "standard" fish). Once you have the number, you have a reasonable way to estimate how many gallon inches are in a khuli.
Repeat the same for some other interesting fish.
This may be a great HS Science project for someone.
I do **think** that Erik is correct and even fat khulis do not change the things much...khulis are not merely slim, they are also very inactive and consume very little food, and fat khulis and even less active.... But the above experiment would allow to answer this with some certainty.
Somehow this topic ended up in two threads, here and also in "Khulis are weird". If you happen to look in the other thread maybe you can give another opinion on red-blue danios as the dither...What I'd like is a sexually active dither fish, but Martin quite reasonably noticed that Danios eat everything in sight...so the question now is if there a reasonable compromise: some small sexually active fish which is less likely to go for eggs/fries than a danio. Redtail rasboras I tend to use for dither are ideal pacifists, but they also almost never spawn, and harlequins (and may be all rasboras) are probably the same way too...Erik wrote:Just kuhli's and some dithers like harlequins rasboras or something else not to big.