advice please

[gadazobe]

Well, I've just found my new tank - it measures 60" long x 24"high x 12" depth
Now do I use it for my community or my cichlid. At the moment I have:
180 litre cichlid
3 electric yellows#
2 julie transcriptus
3 upside down featherfins
3 alonaucara tricolour peacocks
1 alonaucara ruby red
1 small bristlenose

180 litre community
1 plec
1 betta
1 elephant nose
2 gobi dragons
4 clown loaches
3 angelicus loaches
2 danios
1 red finned shark
numerous sailfin mollies including lots of fry that I'm trying to get rid of
1 female dwarf gourami
1 platty

What do I do? Please advise

 

[wetwetwet]

neither .....

.....and set it up for discus lol

 

[Tanked]

discus or marine if it were mine.

 

[-=DG=-]

Had it been mine, id have a couple of dirty great Green Terrors

 

[dolphin]

Hi gadazobe

Um, choices choices? Wild discus and altum angels. A few L numbers and cory's and some larger tetras.

 

[H2O]

Well thats a deep tank so lighting will be a problem if you want to plant it.
I would go for the Cichlid Tank. Lots of caves!

 

[kevin007]

i would make it a marine tank!

 

[gadazobe]

it's not an option to have it as well as my other two so I have to make a choice and I thought with the amount of fish in the community and the size they'll get to, I better make the new one a community tank

 

[mostanks]

dwarf cichlid community sa/ca

 

[impur]

Cichlids all day baby!!!!!!!


How big are your syno cats? And do they get along ok? I have 1 in a 10 gal at the moment and i never see him. It is definately a sexy cat, i love the coloring.

 

[Tanked]

it's not an option to have it as well as my other two so I have to make a choice and I thought with the amount of fish in the community and the size they'll get to, I better make the new one a community tank

sory to hear you can't have all 3. Based on what you said about what is in the community and the size they will get too that sounds like your best bet.

 

[Tanked]

It is definately a sexy cat, i love the coloring.

never knew you felt that way about fish J/K m8. i'm in rare form this day and my mind is somewhere down the gutter.

 

[gadazobe]

Right, got the tank home and am now cleaning it It's hard work and I don't know what to use to take the limescale off of it. The actual measurements are 60 x 14 x 18 high . It looks huge but when I checked on the volume calculator the difference between the ones I have and this are about 10 gallons only. I think I'm going to put the cichlids in there coz at the moment they're quite overcrowded and haven't much room to swim around in. At least in this one they're be able to "excerise" a bit more and as the featherfins are already about 7" long and not far short from that wide think they deserve more room. I was wondering if I can put my 8" plec in with them and move the small bristlenose to the community, also does anyone know if I can put the gobi dragons in with cichlids?

 

[Tanked]

congrats on the tank. as for cleaning, try some bleach and a RAZOR BLADE. it is aggonizing work to remove lime deposits.

now on to the dragon goby. I could be wrong (some one please correct "chastise" me if I am) but I think that they have different water condition needs. My LFS sells dragon goby's as brackish water fish. THIS SITE has info on their requirements

 

[pondfreak4365]

I use straight white vinegar to remove lime scale. Congrats on the new tank, gadazobe!