37g Tall Tank, My Stocking Plans, Opinions Please.

[Jeff000]

To start, my tank is tall, 18x20x28 Tall, 37 gallons.
While its a new tank still I purchased 2 sacks of ceramic balls (about the size of a 750ml pop bottle each) that my LFS has in a tank set up for the sole purpose of growing the benifitial bacteria. I put amonia in my tank to keep them alive untill I got fish, and even though I put way to much in everything leveled out over night.

So last night I went and got a few fish, my gf loves guppies so we got 6 of them, 2 male and 4 female. No plans on breeding, just a nice light snack for everything else, if one makes it then I will donate it back to the LFS.

So here is the list of what I want, please let me know if I should be adding these in a particular order.

The 6 Guppies
4 albino cory's
2 german rams
2 bolivian rams
4 marble hatchets
4 kuhli loaches (dont know if that will be too many fish near the bottom though)

I have lots of bog wood and several tall plants going in today, so there will be lots of cover. (but not crowded).

I am having trouble finding some mid tank fish though. Any recomendations?

I plan on adding the cory's in a few days, then the rams a few days after that, and then the hatchets a few days after that.


For feeding I have have flake food, dried blood worms, sinking pellets, and frozen blood worms.
Its hard to find feeding advice, so here is what I planed.
a sinking pellet per cory, and then alternate the flake food with the dried blood worms, and then once a week the frozen blood worms.
I was thinking the flake food morning and evning, but the rest just once a day in the evning.


Any Opinions would be great, thanks.

 

[jkrekord]

i would just have one type of ram an get a pair of it

 

[Jeff000]

i would just have one type of ram an get a pair of it

I was hoping on a pair of each kind, I really like both and would hate to have to pick just one.

Also I dont know how to tell a male from female, the ones at the LFS are small still.

or would two pair be ok even?

 

[Jeff000]

I was hoping to get more input

 

[diademhill]

To start, my tank is tall, 18x20x28 Tall, 37 gallons.
While its a new tank still I purchased 2 sacks of ceramic balls (about the size of a 750ml pop bottle each) that my LFS has in a tank set up for the sole purpose of growing the benifitial bacteria. I put amonia in my tank to keep them alive untill I got fish, and even though I put way to much in everything leveled out over night.

So last night I went and got a few fish, my gf loves guppies so we got 6 of them, 2 male and 4 female. No plans on breeding, just a nice light snack for everything else, if one makes it then I will donate it back to the LFS.

So here is the list of what I want, please let me know if I should be adding these in a particular order.

The 6 Guppies
4 albino cory's
2 german rams
2 bolivian rams
4 marble hatchets
4 kuhli loaches (dont know if that will be too many fish near the bottom though)

I have lots of bog wood and several tall plants going in today, so there will be lots of cover. (but not crowded).

I am having trouble finding some mid tank fish though. Any recomendations?

I plan on adding the cory's in a few days, then the rams a few days after that, and then the hatchets a few days after that.


For feeding I have have flake food, dried blood worms, sinking pellets, and frozen blood worms.
Its hard to find feeding advice, so here is what I planed.
a sinking pellet per cory, and then alternate the flake food with the dried blood worms, and then once a week the frozen blood worms.
I was thinking the flake food morning and evning, but the rest just once a day in the evning.


Any Opinions would be great, thanks.

The tank only has a 20x18" footprint so only one pair of Rams will fit. I feel it is a bit small for hatchets which can get up quite a burst of speed - and it would certainly be crowded on the bottom with 4 x 3"+ cories. IIWY I'd get C sterbai or C arcuatus instead of the aneus/paleatus (usual albinos although you can find albino sterbai if you search) as these are more active & stay a bit smaller.

Personally I'd get 4 pencilfish for the upper levels, 5-7 rosy, flame or pristella tetras ,or harlequins, for the middle, 4 2" ish cories for the bottom & eventually a pair of rams & that is the tank fully stocked once you add three ottos later still for algae control.

You need to be thinking of a month between additions and I'd leave cories & rams till the tank has been set up 4 & 6 months.

Feeding -I don't like dried bloodworm and you'll find all these fish do well on Tetra Prima as a staple with flake instead a couple of times a week and frozen food weekly. You can buy frozen mixtures or daphnia which would be better for these small fish than bloodworm.

HTH
Sue