Understanding water hardness

[Martinspuddle]

I can’t help but feel I’ve annoyed you… I don’t have 40 years of experience or know the trusted websites for information. In the same way you wouldn’t know for my area of work. It’s only natural I’d use a search engine at the beginning of my journey. I mean, I am here after all. Asking questions to make sure I do things correctly. Trying to work out what is right and wrong. I have adhd and struggle to absorb and retain a lot of written information (and let’s face it, there is a LOT to learn in regards to fish keeping). I have however always excelled when watching and doing - but that isn’t really practical in this case.

Unfeel yourself! I'm not annoyed, I do apologise though, think I've overwhelmed you with information.

Fish shop Matt does some good videos on for beginners; YouTube: @FishShopMatt

Thank you for your suggestion. Corydoras were something I originally wanted. The tank is 54 litre so I presume I’d have to cut down on those numbers?

Only by a couple.

[Fish]

I can’t help but feel I’ve annoyed you… I don’t have 40 years of experience or know the trusted websites for information. In the same way you wouldn’t know for my area of work. It’s only natural I’d use a search engine at the beginning of my journey. I mean, I am here after all. Asking questions to make sure I do things correctly. Trying to work out what is right and wrong. I have adhd and struggle to absorb and retain a lot of written information (and let’s face it, there is a LOT to learn in regards to fish keeping). I have however always excelled when watching and doing - but that isn’t really practical in this case.

Unfeel yourself! I'm not annoyed, I do apologise though, think I've overwhelmed you with information.

Fish shop Matt does some good videos on for beginners; YouTube: @FishShopMatt

Thank you for your suggestion. Corydoras were something I originally wanted. The tank is 54 litre so I presume I’d have to cut down on those numbers?

Only by a couple.

I’ll check him out, thank you It’s actually 56 litre, getting mixed up with my last tank (64)!

[VikingMummy2015]

Going back to rabbit snails, don’t listen to people who say they breed slowly . I started with 2 adults and now I have too many smaller ones to count. I was having to pull out the baby baby ones as soon as I saw them for a while until my LFS (not actually very local and we only visit once or twice a year) said they’d take my spares. I reckon I get 1 a week and I only have one of the original adults left!

[Fish]

Going back to rabbit snails, don’t listen to people who say they breed slowly . I started with 2 adults and now I have too many smaller ones to count. I was having to pull out the baby baby ones as soon as I saw them for a while until my LFS (not actually very local and we only visit once or twice a year) said they’d take my spares. I reckon I get 1 a week and I only have one of the original adults left!

I’m so sorry, I missed this! Oh, they’re quite large too aren’t they I’ll only get one if I do, so I presume it’ll only be a problem if it got jiggy with it before coming to me

[Fish]

I did some window shopping last week and the endlers are quite pretty! I also spotted galaxy rasboras and seriously fish tells me they like the same hardness of water as the endlers?

So looking at aqadvisor I was thinking of 8 endlers, 8 galaxy rasbora, 6 red cherry shrimp and a rabbit snail. Does that sound okay? Without the rabbit snail (as I can’t find it in the list!) it takes me to 59% full so they should be happy and not overcrowded?

[DuzMano]

Gives plenty of room for the inevitable endler breeding?

[Fish]

Gives plenty of room for the inevitable endler breeding?

The ones I saw were all very colourful, doesn’t that mean they were all male? I really don’t want to have to deal with endless babies

[fr499y]

Keep all males and you won't worry about breeding. The females are pretty bland and bigger so easy to tell apart

[Fish]

Awesome, I think I’ve decided on the mix then! I’ll start with the endlers first