New person with new killifish. ( A. Australe and N. Korhousae)

[Erica Stolte]

Well, that's how I found your forum.
I've been at Northeast weekend and while my new killies are acclimating, I was looking up other species I saw today at the show and this forum popped up. Might possibly get a third kind of killie tomorrow or more of either kind I already have  from the auction tomorrow. Have to see what pops up.  Post may not be as coherent as sometimes as it's almost 3 AM.

I already had an Australe from NEC so I was getting her new buddies today.
Probably not the best choice for my water conditions, but my "widow" looks sad alone.
I call her Kytene ( pronounced Kite-knee)...Kytene has been with me since March as part of a heterosexual killie couple.
In August, things got crazy(long story) and I lost her mate I called Chaz.
I found them adorable with their "smiley faces", how they'd swim together and how they'd come to the upper corner to greet me.
After that, I decided Kytene would be alone until NEW came along. I figured I can find her at least one buddy fish,.even it it turns out to be a female of another related  species( breeding not a focus with these).

I miss Chaz, they were a cute couple, but hopefully soon I will intregrate Kytene soon into her new polyamorious  relationship with the new pair.
The new couple is larger then Kytene so I need to see how that plays out.

As for the N. Korhousae, they simply matched the criteria I set forth for choosing a killie.
I wanted a killie who liked hard/alkaline water, was friendly, was pretty and was fairly easy to keep.
So after reading up on N.K, I picked up a pair on the sale table this morning.
The male is little and the female is tiny...

Anyhow...I'd love to get viewpoints on housing for them.

Fish to be housed in these tanks: 2 male betta splendens , 2 kuhlis I'm close to giving to the petshop so don't have to really plan for them), 5 bristlenose plecos.
I would like to get some zebra danios/glofish.

 I would prefer not to house the killies in the 10 gal because it's in a tight spot and only the front side is visable when I move the trash can. I don't have any fish in there right now, was trying to use it to raise live foods.
Might move one of my male bettas down there.

Tanks I plan to have setup or already have setup are:
20H/10 :
Tank rack is located between my computer desk and the wall partition.
Upper tank has artificial decor,one live plant and has housed my A. Australe pair with a small bristlenose.

29/20
One of these tanks will be planted, depending on which one is on top. I upgraded this rack from 20 to 29 gal.
Used to be a 20 on top and a 10 on the bottom.

40/30
Bottom tank houses my 3 adult bristlenose plecos, top tank is a unique setup.
Top tank is kept 2/3 filled and I call it my "swamp tank".  This tank has extremely heavy planting as the result of a root mass that can nearly fill a 10 gal tank. So any fish that goes into here is going to have to enjoy this kind of thing.
The plants just about touch my ceiling.

How I'm thinking of arranging things:

20h: Male betta and bristlenose pleco.
10: Male betta.

20:  A. Australe( up to 5 of them)  and 1 bristlenose pleco. I'll put them on top and give them the plants.
29: Zebra danios/glofish. ( possibly another kind of killie pair or trio?)

30 2/3 filled: Nothos Korhousae.
40 : 3 bristlenose plecos ( They already live there).

Currently both pairs of new killies are in a 10 gal, which have been put on the bottom rack of the 29 gal stand. 29 is currently empty. I would like to keep the N.Ks down there a bit until they gain some size because they'd get lost in my "swamp" tank and I think I need to keep track of them.

[Morgrid]

The australe will probably do fine in any of the community tanks. The Nothos however should probably be kept in a tank by themselves. A 5 or 10 gallon tank would be plenty for them. They do require live foods and would not likely be able to compete the the other larger fish. A male N. korthausae is huge at 2 inches and the females are usually 1/2 to 3/4 that size.

[Erica Stolte]

I ended up with three groups of killies: lampeyes/ procatapus simils , Nothobranhus Korthausae and Aphyosemion Australe.

I have each group in a separate 20 gal tank at the moment.
The plans are to move the AAs and PSs into larger quarters. The NKs are planned to live permanently in a 20 gal.
The NKs as the only killie likely to breed will most likely be living in a species tank. The others will be in community tanks.

 I was going to setup a 29 for the lampeyes and then I ended up getting another 40 gal.  I had intended to replace my upper 30 with a 40 gal .The new 40 gal I got ended up being the wrong shape for my stand.  So I need to decide where to go with that setup. I was thinking of replacing my stand anyways as the design is bad so that is not a big issue.
The AAs will go into a 29 community when I find a good deal or a freebie one.

I'm working on getting a brine shrimp tank and daphnia culture going so they can have a steady supply of live foods.