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There is a big difference between a sparsley planted and a heavily planted tank. One is the bio load that each is capable of maintaining. I know there are certain ammounts of shrimp that you can add before you bio load is impacted (some say it's about 10 to 15 ghost shrimp.) They monitored the peremeters while they tested while they tested the theory. Do you think it would be strecthing it to add 5 neon tetras to a heavily planted 12 gallon tank? Tetras are low waste producers, and with the proper cycle like feeding, I think it just might work out okay. I'm just wondering what you think of the idea.

thetunnelfades,

If all you want to know is if you can add 5 Neons to a 12G tank (that has only 4 leopard danios and one Oto, as you say in your profile) then the answer, IMHO, would be yes.

If you expect any additional information, maybe you should rephrase the question(s)? I honestly got a little confused what the whole shrimp business is supposed to convey .

Ingo

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There is nothing in the tank right now. I need to update my profile, some of those fishies aren't here anymore. But I guess what the shrimp thing was supposed to convey is that: Doesn't it seem like fifteen or so ghost shrimp is comparable to 5 small neon tetras?

what sort of filtration is in the tank, if you had lots of plants and only 5 neons i dont think you would need a filter

OH TOLEEDY!

Hi,
Actually in a heavily planted tank, you can actually miss
the normal indicators that a tank has cycled. The ammonia
is changed to nitrite and that is changed to nitrate so
fast that the average person won't even catch the peaks
in testing. "We" normally test a cycling tank once or
twice a day and inbetween testing the plants will absorb
the nutirents and we won't see the normal peaks of
ammonia or nitrite. The nitrate test will produce the only
readings, and that may be low (at or near zero) unless we
add nitrate to the tank to hold it around 10.

When adding fish, I would add them in "schools" or "shoals"
at a time. A school of 10 tetras for instance (in a
smaller tank).

Frank


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