55 Gallon

[Zafirah]

So, my dad has a 55 gallon and he likes the idea of a communty tank and was asking me what kinds if fish he could put in there and how many
thanks

he also said he likes

Tetras
Silver Dollars
soo anything based around those
and Cicleds

 

[IceMan569]

well make sure u have god filtation

on my 55 i have 2 top filter it will help

silver dollars are cool -- i get a few
tetra are cool to thou i don't have much advise on them

cichlids -- are great mostly hardly

firemouth , ocsar , green terror , serviums,


snails are good to get to apple, mystery eat lots of stuff

don't get a iredesent shark will grow to big

my 55 i have a

green terror , small oscar, small sevrium and shark (its going go soon )

 

[nukeonekitty]

What are you water stats? Cichlids thrive more in hard water and high ph where as tetras like softer water.

 

[Aprilia997]

A good mix of fish might include 4 or 5 Bleeding Heart Tetras, 1 Silver Dollar, 1 Green Severum Cichlid, 2 Pictus Catfish.

A good mix of African fish would be, 6 to 8 Congo Tetras, a pair of Pelv. pulcher
Kribensis, 2 or 3 Upside Down Catfish.

 

[Boids-n-more]

I wouldn't mix the cichlids with the community fish. Most are way to aggressive but some have had luck with it. Also what types of cichlids does your dad want central american or african. the africans like the water harder than the central americans. Also there diets very greatly.

 

[KathyM]

well make sure u have god filtation

on my 55 i have 2 top filter it will help

silver dollars are cool -- i get a few
tetra are cool to thou i don't have much advise on them

cichlids -- are great mostly hardly

firemouth , ocsar , green terror , serviums,


snails are good to get to apple, mystery eat lots of stuff

don't get a iredesent shark will grow to big

my 55 i have a

green terror , small oscar, small sevrium and shark (its going go soon )

Prime example of what NOT to put in your tank, sadly.

An oscar alone needs 75g. Add the other fish and you're looking at about 125-150g.

In a 55g, a couple of angels (or other small/medium cichlids such as Rainbow Cichlids, Keyholes), a shoal of tetras (Columbian tetras are lovely, don't go for anything too small in ase they become angel food), some cories and a small species of plec (not a common plec). That would look lovely if you set it up in a natural looking way, planted, etc.

A Dwarf Cichlid community would look lovely in it too.

 

[IceMan569]

well make sure u have god filtation

on my 55 i have 2 top filter it will help

silver dollars are cool -- i get a few
tetra are cool to thou i don't have much advise on them

cichlids -- are great mostly hardly

firemouth , ocsar , green terror , serviums,


snails are good to get to apple, mystery eat lots of stuff

don't get a iredesent shark will grow to big

my 55 i have a

green terror , small oscar, small sevrium and shark (its going go soon )

Prime example of what NOT to put in your tank, sadly.

An oscar alone needs 75g. Add the other fish and you're looking at about 125-150g.

In a 55g, a couple of angels (or other small/medium cichlids such as Rainbow Cichlids, Keyholes), a shoal of tetras (Columbian tetras are lovely, don't go for anything too small in ase they become angel food), some cories and a small species of plec (not a common plec). That would look lovely if you set it up in a natural looking way, planted, etc.

A Dwarf Cichlid community would look lovely in it too.

for one i didn't mean to buy all of those -- daaaaaaaaa

i was givin examples of cichlids

and i had a oscar in a 55 gal for years on end and everything was just fine



firemouths are great

 

[KathyM]

for one i didn't mean to buy all of those -- daaaaaaaaa

In your original post you said you had all of those, derrrr.

Seriously though - if someone's starting with a fresh slate, they don't need fish that would be crammed in a tank that size. You might be happy putting all your fish in one, but it's not a good idea and that's what I was saying.

75g is the more widely accepted recomended absolute minimum for one oscar, never mind the others as well.