Grow out tanks

1. What size do you currently use for your grow out tank/s...??
(Current grow out tank 3'x15"x12")

2. How many fish do you keep in it when growing them on...??
(Adult breeding pairs and whatever fry they have)

3. What size do you grow them on too before letting them go..??
(BNs - 3-4, mostly around 4cm or larger though.)

4. Do you keep them in the tank alone or with other fish...??
(Kept with Cherry Shrimp)

5. How often do you do water changes and what sort of pecentage of the water do you change..??
(Syphon out poop twice/day and top the tank)

6. What type of bottom do you have.... (Peachy, Pert or Saggy ) sorry couldn't resist that, what I mean is do you use gravel, sand, bare botton or something else..??
(White sand)

7. Filtration type and air pump if separate...??
(4 medium sponge filters and 1 internal )

8. Planted or unplanted..?? If planted, sparsely or heavily..??
(Floating java fern or java moss)

9. Last one, Do you breed your fish in specific breeding tanks or just let them get on with it in your Display/community tank..??
(Specific tanks if i want the fry)

albino longfins and peppermint bn
1. What size do you currently use for your grow out tank/s...??
(Current grow out tank 4' x 15" x 15")

2. How many fish do you keep in it when growing them on...??
(Adult breeding alb lf bn trio + the fry and pep fry [sold my pep breeders recently])


3. What size do you grow them on too before letting them go..??
(3-3.5 SF and 4-4.5 LF)


4. Do you keep them in the tank alone or with other fish...??
(have darwin algae shrimp and endlers livebearers in with them)


5. How often do you do water changes and what sort of pecentage of the water do you change..??
(say roughly 15% once or twice a week)


6. What type of bottom do you have.... (Peachy, Pert or Saggy ) sorry couldn't resist that, what I mean is do you use gravel, sand, bare botton or something else..??
(regular 2-3mm brownish gravel)


7. Filtration type and air pump if separate...??
(2000L/h canister, 2 large sponge filters and a 2000L/h internal filter. i know i like to go overboard on filtration lol)


8. Planted or unplanted..?? If planted, sparsely or heavily..??
(2 medium sized anubias on driftwood)


9. Last one, Do you breed your fish in specific breeding tanks or just let them get on with it in your Display/community tank..??
(until i get rid of the current 4ft they are in a specific breeding tank, but soon they will be in a display tank)

1. What size do you currently use for your grow out tank/s...??
4 x 1 x 1.5ft standard tank

2. How many fish do you keep in it when growing them on...??
At last count there was about 400 fry, 2 mature male albinos and a mature OSBN

3. What size do you grow them on too before letting them go..??
3cms is when they are shipped off to the shop. 3.5cms for longfins

4. Do you keep them in the tank alone or with other fish...??
Currently I have a whole mess of cherry shrimp in with them as well as about 30 endler fry growing out (normally just BN and shrimp though)

5. How often do you do water changes and what sort of pecentage of the water do you change..??
Try for 10% daily but sometimes its 20% every other day

6. What type of bottom do you have.... (Peachy, Pert or Saggy ) sorry couldn't resist that, what I mean is do you use gravel, sand, bare botton or something else..??
Thin smear of Silica sand that gets blown around by current leaving bare spots

7. Filtration type and air pump if separate...??
2200l/h Proaqua canister with 9watt inbuilt UV. sponge filter

8. Planted or unplanted..?? If planted, sparsely or heavily..??
Fair amount of floating java fern

9. Last one, Do you breed your fish in specific breeding tanks or just let them get on with it in your Display/community tank..??
species specific most of the time but I had no where else for the endlers to go.

1. What size do you currently use for your grow out tank/s...??
4 x 1 x 1.5ft standard tank

2. How many fish do you keep in it when growing them on...??
at last count about three hundred fry and I have three small gold spots and two small peppermints and a mass of cherry shrimp
3. What size do you grow them on too before letting them go..??
still waiting for my first crop to get big enough to go to the shop

4. Do you keep them in the tank alone or with other fish...??
as for question 2
5. How often do you do water changes and what sort of pecentage of the water do you change..??
10-20% twice weekly

6. What type of bottom do you have.... (Peachy, Pert or Saggy ) sorry couldn't resist that, what I mean is do you use gravel, sand, bare botton or something else..??
fine black gravel

7. Filtration type and air pump if separate...??
1100l/h cannister and 400l/h internal sponge

8. Planted or unplanted..?? If planted, sparsely or heavily..??
light planting all in terracotta pots

9. Last one, Do you breed your fish in specific breeding tanks or just let them get on with it in your Display/community tank..??
species specific