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    Re: 125 gallon South American fish community

    I’ve only quickly skipped through this thread ... I’m sure you know you can’t keep Cardinal tetras and Angel fish in the same tank .. but just in case ...


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    Re: 125 gallon South American fish community

    Quote Originally Posted by Zincubus View Post
    I’ve only quickly skipped through this thread ... I’m sure you know you can’t keep Cardinal tetras and Angel fish in the same tank .. but just in case ...


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    Regular neons can't. Cardinals get 2 inches long, and I specifically got baby angels so the cardinals would have time to grow up with them. That and the main tank has tons of hiding places and a trio of dwarf cichlids in case the angels get any funny ideas.

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    Re: 125 gallon South American fish community

    Quote Originally Posted by Snagrio View Post
    Regular neons can't. Cardinals get 2 inches long, and I specifically got baby angels so the cardinals would have time to grow up with them. That and the main tank has tons of hiding places and a trio of dwarf cichlids in case the angels get any funny ideas.
    Sounds a tad risky imho


    Cardinals are fairly slow growers even in a big tank whilst Angels grow frighteningly fast .. have a huge mouth and an insatiable appetite... they’re likely to at least be nipping / biting any tetras in there if only to TRY to get a mouthful


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    Re: 125 gallon South American fish community

    Quote Originally Posted by Zincubus View Post
    Sounds a tad risky imho


    Cardinals are fairly slow growers even in a big tank whilst Angels grow frighteningly fast .. have a huge mouth and an insatiable appetite... they’re likely to at least be nipping / biting any tetras in there if only to TRY to get a mouthful


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    I know it's a risk, but I've read all over of people having success more than failure with such arrangements, and I've calculated the odds in my favor by getting babies and making them among the last additions to the tank which itself is awash with tall greenery, hiding places and enough angels to have them be too busy with each other to bother others (and if not there's a bachelor trio of apistos; if there's one thing that a cichlid will respect, it's another cichlid).

    Meanwhile, I went back to the store today to get store credit for a cardinal I didn't receive (paid for 25 and counted 24 as I was putting them in the quarantine tank plus several times over afterwards). With the discount I picked up this mystery cory that I felt bad about ever since the other day as I took away the only other cory companion it had when I got the bag of orphans, so they're back together now. I do mean mystery though, I have no idea what this species is. It was sold as C. rabauti but it doesn't look like one. Rabauti looks like this.

    The one I have doesn't have the single bold black stripe, instead having a series of zigzagging black stripes along the bulk of the body with a single orange spot right on top of the head.


    Finally, the black angel saga has gotten even stranger. I couldn't get a discount for the breed discrepancy, but it turns out it only would've been a few bucks' difference so whatever. But I looked at it this morning, and apparently overnight it's started to develop shimmering bluish scales on the side of its body and under/around the gills. No it's not ich or some other parasite, especially as it's already started to regenerate damaged fins (the poor image quality doesn't show it properly but the lighter spots are individual scales that have changed color). So maybe it truly is a blue leopard? Quite bizarre...
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    I've solved the cory mystery. It's a C. elegans "Peru."

    Mine.


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    Bad news, my marbled whiptail catfish passed away this morning...

    I noticed it starting to fade in color yesterday, but I wasn't sure if it was simply changing color or something (I had just learned of the species' existence not a couple weeks ago so I didn't know if that was a thing with them). Nope, it was dying...

    No other fish new or old have died, it went through quarantine just fine, it was eating, it wasn't bothered by other tankmates, and I just tested the water and it's immaculate so I think I just got unlucky. Hopefully the store will accept a replacement/refund since it's a couple days past their 1 week guarantee.

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    The LFS thankfully gave me a replacement marble whiptail free of charge. Hopefully this one does better.

    Also picked up one last orphan (knock on wood). Saw it in an adjacent tank, it's a mouse catfish (how oxymoronic), Tenellus leporhinus. The employee told me it had been there for a long time, and the species prefers to live in groups so it's likely been pretty miserable. They're apparently quite similar to corydoras (in fact it looks like one that was stretched out) so maybe it'll become friends with my weird ragtag cory group. The guy was happy someone was finally giving it home too.

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    It's been a while, so here's the setup proper with everyone moved in.





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    That looks very inviting- at least, if I were a fish.
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    Re: 125 gallon South American fish community

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
    That looks very inviting- at least, if I were a fish.
    Yeah I agree .. I have zero success with real plants but thankfully the fake ones these days look real and move in the water


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