Re: Biorb mis-selling strikes again
#458
The Biorb is utterly unsuitable for keeping fish in. I wouldn't even use it for shrimp.
White Clouds will need a 50 litre tank. They get to just over an inch and a half and you should have six minimum, the more the merrier.
Personally I wouldn't keep Goldfish and Minnows together, although as noted several people have without problems so far. Fish will eat anything that they can get into their mouths, and while the white clouds might be big enough for a while, they soon won't be.
You'll always get food trapped under the gravel, along with fish waste, dead plant material, etc. When you do a water change use a gavel vac to hoover it up, the waste goes in the bucket with the water, and the gravel is too heavy so falls back down.
You can also do an instant cycle on the new tank. Take the media from the biorb filter, and put it in the new filter (if you get the 200 litre tank I'd suggest getting an external filter- goldfish produce huge quantities of waste, and you need the extra turnover that these give.)
The spraybar will aerate the tank- any surface disturbance allows CO2 and oxygen to move between the water and atmosphere. You might want a bit more aeration than that provides, and many people say that their fish like playing in the bubbles.
As for the Biorb, I'd rip out the filter, and turn the it into a terrarium, and grow some nice humidity loving plants. I don't think its much good for anything else but a snail or two.
Loaches, Barbs, Minnows & Shrimp! Oh My!