100 Litre Stocking Ideas

I looked on google for a couple of minutes there, came up with cherry barbs;

excellent dithers
strata, middle to top
peaceful (probably not touch the fry)
lively
 
You would need a larger group if they are anything like tiger barbs. Tey get agressive in lower numbers, you could have 8 of them, but then y ou couldn't have the rasaboras. ANd then you could have a bristlenose with the barbs. Good idea.

P.S. Next time, Bing it!
 
Cherry barbs are small and peaceful but they would have a go at fry - virtually any fish will. I think if you really want other fish in there you are going to have to be brave and see how it goes but have somewhere to put the smaller fish if they get attacked.
 
Cherry barbs are small and peaceful but they would have a go at fry - virtually any fish will. I think if you really want other fish in there you are going to have to be brave and see how it goes but have somewhere to put the smaller fish if they get attacked.


Oh I thought that he/she was going to move the fry. I think that is what you usually do with the old world fry, but I know that is not what you do with new worlds.
 
There are quite a few species of tetra and rasbora that are hardy :)

Personally i would rate both neons and cardinals as equally difficult to keep, cardinals are tempermental and need very soft water and slightly higher temperatures, neons are just tempermental and need a very mature tank and cooler temperatures than cardinals.

I would start off the tank with your Harlequin Rasbora as they are going to be your hardiest fish! Then some other hardy but pretty fish to consider are Black Neon Tetras and the Albino variation (lot hardier than normal neons!), Ember Tetras, Glowlight Tetras (very nippy though!), Zebra Danios (can be pretty aggressive and chase a lot!) Leopard, Glowlight, Pearl, Hikari and Panther Danios, White Cloud Mountain Minnows are stunning and with colour as a shoal! Cherry barbs would be perfect too!

If you want something interesting, you can always vary your kribs, a pair of nigerian reds or i really like the albinos! I have a pair in a 200L tank (it is very heavily stocked but also very heavily planted with a very mature 405 filter on it) but that pair is in with a pair of Stiphodon Elegans? Gobies, Large shoal of Cardinals, Shoal of Chela Dadyburjori or orange finned hatchets (these would be perfect in your tank! tightly shoaling and shoal higher up in the tank, yellow with neon blue stripe and spots down side, look like a danio) a small shoal of Cherry Barbs, a Small shoal of Pentazona Barbs, Albino Long Finned Ancistrus, an L no plec (mega clown pleco, wont get so big) some Amano Plant Shrimp (i'd avoid small shrimp as my kribs now they are big have eaten the red crystal shrimp! but not touched rock shrimp, amanos or pinochio shrimp) and there is also a big siamese fighter, admittedly he is a bit of an ugly chap be he had an attitude and a half, he was battering mollies 3 times his size and he will deal with the kribs too when he needs to, its just a case of finding an aggressive male not a wussy male!

I have to say, the cardinals and the chela dadyburjori look amazing together, the cardinals shoaling through the plant and wood level together and the chela shoaling tightly above them, now they are all settled to do shoal tightly, though i do have about 20 cardinals and 10 chela.

Just giving you some ideas :) I would maybe add rasbora/danio/hardy tetra first and second, then the kribs third and if you go for either neons or cardinals, make sure the tank has been running with fish in it for 2-3 months before adding them, that way the tank will be nice and mature and less likely to fluctuate.
 
One other consideration - I'd add more cover - more tall plants (plastic is fine) and maybe some floating plants, give the fish some resting places.
 
One other consideration - I'd add more cover - more tall plants (plastic is fine) and maybe some floating plants, give the fish some resting places.

theres practically nowhere for more plants, at the back of the tank is probably my only option, i could get two more of the plants that are in the corner of the tank (would they be able to rest on them)
 
Hi all, i am currently setting up a 100 litre tank,
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this was taking a while ago but its the same aquascape (the water is still cloudy)


In the middle?
 
i would like it to be at the back like a row of them plants

Hi all, i am currently setting up a 100 litre tank,
001.jpg

this was taking a while ago but its the same aquascape (the water is still cloudy)


In the middle?


You could put them in a lot of places IMO.

nowhere that would make them look good at the front would be covering up the view if u know what i mean


I was thinking that is why you didn't want to put them there.
 
The idea is to break up lines of sight (for the fish) to minimise the likelihood of the kribs attacking other fish. With a big wide open space like that then they are almost certain to see other fish as a near constant threat.
 
The idea is to break up lines of sight (for the fish) to minimise the likelihood of the kribs attacking other fish. With a big wide open space like that then they are almost certain to see other fish as a near constant threat.


I thought that he decided that he was just going to do the kribs and a bristlenose. This info is correct. But I dont think that he is ging to have any dithers in this situation.
 
The idea is to break up lines of sight (for the fish) to minimise the likelihood of the kribs attacking other fish. With a big wide open space like that then they are almost certain to see other fish as a near constant threat.
i can see where ur comin from, just a quick question would the cherry barbs attack the fry like your big eel that was in the background of the picture? or would it be nothin compared to that
 
The idea is to break up lines of sight (for the fish) to minimise the likelihood of the kribs attacking other fish. With a big wide open space like that then they are almost certain to see other fish as a near constant threat.
i can see where ur comin from, just a quick question would the cherry barbs attack the fry like your big eel that was in the background of the picture? or would it be nothin compared to that


Any dither would really attack the fry. I would move the fry when they get larger. Do you already have the kirbs? Apistogramma would be a better choice IMO.
 

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