Hi all =)
My first post and hopefully a long visit here.
I have set up our 72g tank after 1+years of sitting in the dining room with nothing in it =). It's been up for about 1 week now and obviously going through the cycling phase. We currently have (7) long finned Danios, (4) White Clouds, (5) Honey Gourami's and (3) Peal Gourami's it's not a planted tank but I plan on including a few low maintence plants (some Java Moss already in there w/ fake plants, real piece of wood and a couple pieces of slate [which is holding down the wood, lol])). We have added 3+ oz of Bio Spira and have a wet/dry under the tank filled with bio balls and a Magnum 350 with the gravel cleaning toys and micron filter that I use to polish/clean the tanks with on the side.
We are planning to stop by on Friday and pick up some Dojo Loaches and was wondering if anyone had some suggestions on what other species we can add after the tank cycles --- Ram cichlids?? or even now. I am assuming all the current fish we have will survive the processes especially with the use of BioSpira. Or, slap me now and tell me to get a clue....LOL.
We have a 6 gal Eclipse system (our first) for the past 2 years and it's been a learning process with that, currently residing in there for the past year is our Goldie a gold nugget pleco that we were told will not grow to be that big but, we have plans to move her to the big tank after it gets established and (2) amano shrimp. We lost our male betta (Precious) to an outbreak of ich caused by my ignoance to trust even a plant from Petco and not QT it first....everyone else survived the salt/heat treatment. I will post some pics if anyone is interested.
Thank You Much!!!!