adding fish to tank

[Pierre Rasmont]

Pierre Rasmont

July 2, 2007 at 3:20 am #25053

Attachments : Hi, It is very helpfull to add fish to turtle tank. They eat all remaining tiny food pieces and turtle’s droppings. However all species do not fit to the turtle neighbouring. I tested the next with Graptemys, Trachemys, Chrysemys and Emys – Gold fish. Do well and perfect ground cleaner but tend to grow a lot and to eat other fish. – Guppys: they have been eaten i nfew days – Gambusia: perfect, never consumed, they remain near the surface – Brachydanio rerio or frankei: they are not been eaten but they do not fit – Barbus tetrazona: eaten in minutes – Minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, European fresh water fish): do well and are splendid but they do not support the hottest summer days – Chub (Leuciscus cephalus, European fresh water): do well but grow up quickly and eat food out of the turtles mouth, eat all other fish – Barbus meridionalis (European fresh water): do well but become too large – Gudgeon (Gobio gobio, European fresh water): do well and clean well the aquarium ground but tend to decline and to be eaten, but they are very comon in nature or very cheap as bait – Tanichtys albonubes: very nice but seem terrorized by turtles and remain hidden, decline after a time, they probably not dare to come to eat – Barbus conchonius: the most perfect one. It is a splendid species. It fit with cold winter water and hot summer. It is very difficult to catch for any turtles and even for me. They make small shoals to graze on the algae, as sheeps do (funny behaviour), they completely removed any filamentous algae (but also my Fontinalis antipyretica, the only moss that supported turtles grazing). – Hasemannia crenuchoides. This was a surprise. My daughter offered me 10 Hasemannia for my turtles tank. As it is a quite calm species from Amazonia, I though that they should have been eaten in minutes but not. They surprisingly resisted to the turtles, to quite cold winter water (12-14_C) and to hot summer (30_C water). They are never eaten by turtles. I add 20 new ones and they are perfect. To summarize, the best fish that I found are the next: – Gambusia – Barbus conchonius – Hasemannia crenuchoides Bye, Pierre At 22:15 01/07/2007 -0500, you wrote:

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