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I have these two 80l tubs set up for quite a while and I was itching to put a few fish in them...
One is a cold water tub, no heater but I can put one to prevent extremely cold spells. I haven't checked the temperature for a good while but it gets cold!...down to 12C. It's been running with rumshorn snails and cherry shrimp since May 2017. Substrate is very thin layer of 0.9mm sand.
The second one is is heated, set up for a few years now. It's got 3 old platies in it, snails and shrimp again...Substrate is soil capped with very fine play sand.
Each tub has one of my old Fluval U4 1000l/h filters.
I was wondering if there's anything suitable I can put inside considering the small size of the tubs plus the conditions.
The water is hard, TDS around 260-265 from the tap. KH 5, pH 7.4, GH around 12-13.
I have had success with some softer water fish in same water...
So what would you get?
Picture of the cold water tub:
Picture of heated tub:
One is a cold water tub, no heater but I can put one to prevent extremely cold spells. I haven't checked the temperature for a good while but it gets cold!...down to 12C. It's been running with rumshorn snails and cherry shrimp since May 2017. Substrate is very thin layer of 0.9mm sand.
The second one is is heated, set up for a few years now. It's got 3 old platies in it, snails and shrimp again...Substrate is soil capped with very fine play sand.
Each tub has one of my old Fluval U4 1000l/h filters.
I was wondering if there's anything suitable I can put inside considering the small size of the tubs plus the conditions.
The water is hard, TDS around 260-265 from the tap. KH 5, pH 7.4, GH around 12-13.
I have had success with some softer water fish in same water...
So what would you get?
Picture of the cold water tub:
Picture of heated tub: