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Ok, so I'm have a 55 gal on layaway, and it's going to be some bamboo shrimp and the max amount of Tiger Barbs. I used to want to do that with my 29 gal, but then I changed my mind when I found this at Wally World. My question with this is, if I have 7-10 Bamboo Shrimp, how many Tiger Barbs could I have...?


My second question is this: I have a 29 gal, and I was wondering what I could put in there. I definitely want 6 juli cories, but any other suggestions for the rest of it...? The only thing I have as any sort of idea for this tank is that i want at least three different types of fish in it.

So what do you think...?


~*MO*~

6 julii's, an angel and a small pleco maybe a bn?

and i would think somewhere around 20-ish barbs, but that's just a guess...

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Thats a lot of bamboo shrimp. Cool It may be difficult to feed so many filter feeders. How about planting the 29gal and using it to feed plants and breed small algae eating shrimp for the 55? You could keep the cories assuming there is plenty of cover and prefilters for baby shrimp.

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Hmmm, ok, so how does 4 bamboo shrimp (as per Megil), 2 bristlenose plecos, and 20 tiger barbs sound? Or is 20 too much....?



~*MO*~

twenty tigers in a 55 should be fine. shrimp reallyt don't affect biomass to the same extent as fish, because they both use less energy and produce less waste.
if it was just about tigers, shrimp and a bistlenose or 2 then you could get 25 tigers at least providing filtration was standard.

20? are you nuts? I've seen 35 healthy tiger barbs in a 55

Get like 25

and good on you!!