55 Gallon South American Biotope?

[ncguppy830]

im planning to keep angels in it, any suggestions of plants,fish,inverts and substrance is welcome

 

[ncguppy830]

bump

 

[wrightt3]

Not sure if you'd be interested or not but this is a setup I have really wanted to do for a while:
-2 angels
-8 Colombian tetras
-8 silver hatchets
-2 Farlowella
-Either a few cories or a pair or two of dwarf cichlids
Good luck with the tank anyhow!

 

[ncguppy830]

thanks for the imput im not really a fan of the hatchets,i like thr idea of columbian but i think i might only do one species of scholling fish.

anybodyelse

 

[Zante]

Cardinals (I'd say rummynoses, but you said you have trouble sourcing them)
Corys (I'd advocate adolfo's or sterbai)
One or two bristlenoses

No inverts

Amazon sword
Sagittaria
Cabomba

Consider a soil substrate under a layer of play sand. Very good for ph and you won't need to fertilise for years. Takes longer to stabilise to add fish.

 

[ncguppy830]

ok thanks for the input sounds great but will the cardinals be preyed on by the angels?
please keep suggestions coming

 

[nigsy]

ok thanks for the input sounds great but will the cardinals be preyed on by the angels?
please keep suggestions coming

 
It's their natural food in the wild, but I've never had an issue, even when adding new small tetras to the tank. I have two angelfish in my tank with a large shoal of neons (not cardinals), no issues.

 

[ncguppy830]

oh ok i just dont wont to much predatioim not buying them as food.n as 

 

[ncguppy830]

and there a bit pricey 4 dollars a pop here

 

[Sophie]

Yes it all depends on the personality of the Angels.
Personally my breeding pair are kept with Cherry Barbs, they have never shown aggression to anything apart from when they were with other Angelfish, even then the female just sat there - I wouldn't go smaller than this just incase as they are very greedy but my DD Angel kept on his own is horribly aggressive to everything including the Clown Loaches he's in with - daft difference between them!
 
How about Black Phantom Tetras? Always liked these.

 

[ncguppy830]

phantoms eh are they anything like black skirts because then that would be useless because i have a buch of 1 inch juvies of them.

 

[Sophie]

Google is your friend
Harlequins?

 

[ncguppy830]

ok
as for the harley i guess i could do them i just am not sure of the coloration of them do they occur in the same area as angelfish?

 

[Sophie]

Nope they're Thai - my bad. Back to the drawing board
Bolivian Ram – Mikrogeophagus altispinosus
Black Widow Tetra – Gymnocorymbus ternetzi
White Fin Bentosi Tetra – Hyphessobrycon bentosi
Serpae Tetra – Hyphessobrycon eques
False Penguin Tetra – Thayeria boehlkei
Marbled Hatchetfish – Carnegiella striata
Common Hatchetfish – Gasteropelecus sternicla
Three-lined Pencilfish – Nannostomus trifasciatus
Golden Pencilfish - Nannostomus beckfordi
Emerald Catfish – Brochis splendens
Blacktop Cory – Corydoras acutus
Dwarf Cory – Corydoras hastatus
Cupid Cichlid – Biotodoma cupido
Flag Cichlid – Mesonauta festivus
False Rummy Nose Tetra – Petitella georgiae
Puple Emporer Tetra - Inpaichthys kerri
Stolen from Google ^ Some are irrelevant but cba edit on phone.

 

[ncguppy830]

great thanks for list any single on you would reccomend?