My 29 Gallon is a heavily planted tank dominated with stem plants. The only plants that aren't stem plants are downoi and...2 small plants of Crypt nurii. This tank is also overfiltered with an AquaClear 50 that has a flow rate of 200 and a canister filter that has a flow rate of 264gph. I do 50-75% water changes weekly on Sundays.

 

What I want to stock is:

  • Pygmy Cory x10
  • Rummynose Tetra x10
  • Cardinal Tetra x10
  • German Blue Ram x2
  • Oto Cats x3
  • Amano Shrimp- x3 or 4

 

Im still debating weather I should get the 3 otos or just nerite snails. I read plants suck up a lot of nitrates and hopefully the overfiltration helps as well. What do you guys think? Let me know.

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a 21% overstock.

 

But my suggestion is that either the cardinal or rummynose will be too crowded. Rummy like open area to swim. I would go for just one species of top water dweller.

I don't really like using aqadvisor. Amano shrimp arent much on the bio load but on aqadvisor it takes up about 10% and I'm still kind of deciding if I want to have otos or just one nerite snail. Also, I thought that rummynoses stayed more near the bottom and the cardinals mid-water. I don't think I have any fish that are top level dwellers. I used aqadvisor once with just the corys, tetras, and rams and it said I had 108% stock level and well over 200% filtration level. And that doesnt take into account how heavily planted my tank is. 

I don't think shrimp are even counted as bioload in a community tank.  If you're overfiltered  and do regular water changes being somewhat overstocked isn't that bad.  I think one schooling fish looks better than multiples.  20 Rummys or Cardinals over 10 and 10 of each.

I was thinking about the 20 of either one too, but the thing is its so hard to choose which ones are better. I also agree on the shrimp bio load. I have a 5.5 gallon with RCS and theres about 75 in there now and it doesnt seem to be effecting anything.

Between those 2 I believe the rummys are the tighter schoolers and that's what is what we're looking for.  I've got Harlequins and they are dynamite, but are often off in little groups of 4-5.  At feeding time and when the apistos are out patroling though they school nicely.  Should have thought it through though.  They're usually about $3-$4 each.

Yeah thats probably the much better choice. I think I'll stick with just 20 rummynoses. Maybe even smaller and get a larger school of pygmy corys.

rummy school tightly in my experience. if i would to get more school...def rummy.

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