Andrew waterson
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Hi All,
I'm just about to embark on my 1st tropical fish tank setup
Will be starting a fishless cycle in the next few days, so hopefully adding fish in the next 6 weeks or so
I'm planning on a community tank, I have a 160 litre tank, sticking within the 1cm per litre an fish max size of 15cm.
It will be moderately planted
My water is hard alkaline (London!) with the following stats from the tap (from testing and backed up by my post code water report)
PH: 7.6-7.8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 30ppm
Hardness: CaCO3 268ppm, Degrees Clarke 19, Degrees German 15
The below is my current list and predominately based on water requirements and internet research!
6 mollies (small variety like neon orange)
6 swordtails
4 rainbow fish (smaller variety probably Bosemani)
1 Blue Gourami
1 Indonesian Flying Fox
This should be under 160cm with them all at full\max size (I know the live breeders may impact this in the future!)
The all are listed as liking PH up to 8 and have 26 degrees C as an ideal temp
Would they make good tank mates
From my reading the main ones sticking out at the mollies and Gourami, its sounds like the sometimes bully each other
I'm just about to embark on my 1st tropical fish tank setup
Will be starting a fishless cycle in the next few days, so hopefully adding fish in the next 6 weeks or so
I'm planning on a community tank, I have a 160 litre tank, sticking within the 1cm per litre an fish max size of 15cm.
It will be moderately planted
My water is hard alkaline (London!) with the following stats from the tap (from testing and backed up by my post code water report)
PH: 7.6-7.8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 30ppm
Hardness: CaCO3 268ppm, Degrees Clarke 19, Degrees German 15
The below is my current list and predominately based on water requirements and internet research!
6 mollies (small variety like neon orange)
6 swordtails
4 rainbow fish (smaller variety probably Bosemani)
1 Blue Gourami
1 Indonesian Flying Fox
This should be under 160cm with them all at full\max size (I know the live breeders may impact this in the future!)
The all are listed as liking PH up to 8 and have 26 degrees C as an ideal temp
Would they make good tank mates
From my reading the main ones sticking out at the mollies and Gourami, its sounds like the sometimes bully each other