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KC21386 K I bought 20 RCS from a member here and they are doing well. I have recently learned about how awesome endlers are, and would like to keep some as well. Is it too much to keep a colony of both cherries and endlers in a 10 gallon tank? I'm assuming you will all say it is, but I really want to try it. It will certainly take a while until it gets out of hand. #1 · Nov 11, 2008 I bought 20 RCS from a member here and they are doing well. I have recently learned about how awesome endlers are, and would like to keep some as well. Is it too much to keep a colony of both cherries and endlers in a 10 gallon tank? I'm assuming you will all say it is, but I really want to try it. It will certainly take a while until it gets out of hand. Sort by Oldest first Oldest first Newest first Most reactions #2 · Nov 11, 2008 Depends on how dense your tank is with plants. The more the better, however, you must also ALWAYS keep endler population in check. Endlers will overpopulate and thus, eating all your cherries if ignored. However, if you limited the number of endlers, you can easily keep an equilibrium with both creatures. #3 · Nov 11, 2008 +1 Also, I've heard that male Endler's leave the RCS alone, but the females don't. They'll hunt them down and eat them...so yeah make sure the tank is heavily planted. 0 Reply #4 · Nov 11, 2008 That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Now who's got the best Endlers and will they survive shipping to New England in November? #5 · Nov 11, 2008 Just a reality check: I have about 40+- endlers in my 10 gallon tank, and about 20 adult cherries. I started with far fewer endlers, obviously, but I keep them VERY well fed. I've had female RCS berried about 5 times, but I've only found 1 or 2 baby RCS that made it to juvenile growth stage. So despite very heavy planting (with mosses, HM, tenellus, etc etc), my endlers are still constantly on the hunt for baby shrimps. So your RCS population growth will vary with luck, perhaps. Regarding shipping: Endlers are as hardy as feeder guppies. They're great. However, I'd probably throw a heat pack in there just in case temperatures go too low overnight. I think they'll be fine with priority shipping though, personally. Is there anyway you can find some for local pickup? That'd probably be best, all things considered. I'm sure someone's got some in Mass. #6 · Nov 11, 2008 I've shipped out a ton of endlers this month. All made it alive. Even ones that the PO screwed up on and decided to mail back to me. The endlers were in transit for 7 whole days and they all came back to me alive. Pretty freaking fantastic! Male and female endlers WILL attack cherries. Females more so than males, due to large size. Berried shrimp = bullseye targets for endlers. They seem to go for my berried females more so than regular females. This, of course, was when I still kept the two together. I don't anymore, I just kept losing RCS too much. I keep RCS with boraras merah, psuedomugil gertrudae and furcatus and CPDs now. My cherries are doing great! #7 · Nov 11, 2008 I have RCS in my endler tank. I have never seen the endlers bother the RCS, they don't even look at them, but I keep my endlers well fed too. Tank is moderately planted with java moss. However I am also assuming the RCS babies do get eaten sometimes. I guess it all depends on how starving your endlers are. #8 · Nov 11, 2008 female endlers are 2x the size of males, and have no color.... maybe you should get just males? regardless i have endlers if you want some, maybe a trade for rcs? Insert Quotes Post Reply

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