Cat tank

[GaryofMontreal]

I kept a colony of Geophagine cichlids for several years, and really liked them. They were in a six foot, 120 gallon tank in my study.

Disaster struck when I left town for a few days last summer, and I now have only two Geophagus left. I made an interesting (to me) decision, and decided to follow up on an idea I'd had since I was a kid. I still have my two Geos, and I added a small colony of Apistogramma barlowi to be my replacement Geophagines. But the tank has now been built around Corydoras. I have a mixed colony of rabauti, melanotaenia, sterbai, and Brochis splendens - right now, 19 fish. The results are spectacular, as the Corys are in constant activity and occupy all levels of the tank. The level of activity is delightful.
So there's an alternative idea for a larger community tank....

[hp10BII]

Sounds like a fun tank, if I had a spare large tank I'd be tempted to do the same thing too. Seems like a movement towards cats - a local breeder started with breeding syndotis petricola (sp?) cats now has several other corys breeding for him. For a long time he's dedicated to Tanganykian cichlids and converted a third of the gargage to cats.

Cats and loaches tank, not kuhli's. Turned me off when some new kuhli's were right in the middle of a nest of eggs that my rams just laid. :realmad:

[CACAdmin]

Cats and loaches tank, not kuhli's. Turned me off when some new kuhli's were right in the middle of a nest of eggs that my rams just laid. :realmad:
I can understand your frustration with that. The little thieves... I guess they figured the rams eggs were provided for their dining pleasure.:rolleyes: