Alrighty... Trying To See If These Fish Are Compatible....

[WayneVT08]

Will sand work for planted tanks (eventually it will be planted). I will add in a few areas with gravel to give it a more natural feel. The gravel in those spots will be fine gravel. Or just mix sand, fine gravel and such together.... as a member has told me.

Are these fish compatible with eachother and they are going into a 55 gallon tank. Maybe not all of them, but some of them. The tank is 48" wide x 12" deep x 20" high.

Clown Loaches/YoYo loaches
Giant Danios
Angel fish (maximum 2)
Bristlenose Plec (or another that wont get too big.
A few swordtails
Corydora? Or will the plec do a better job?
Red Tail Shark or Bala Shark...

What else? Anything cool looking. Colorful and not shy.

I'm looking at these fish for a 30 gallon that I will also be getting probably before the 55 is set up.

Neon Tetra
Harlequin Rasbora
Black Phantom Tetra
Zebra Danios
Leopard Danios
Red Tail Shark
Some type of Corydora...

Anything else in the means of fish suggestions. Just let me know if these fish are compatible with eachother.

 

[wendywc]

Sand and plants are great together. All the fish you list should be fine together, except the red tail sharks might be too territorial and not mix well with angelfish, or danios and neons. Don't know anything about bala sharks.

You can look adding gouramis for your 55gallon, if you want too.

 

[WayneVT08]

So no red tail shark for the 55 gallon?

 

[Dwarfs]

No balas either, they get to 14", need to be kept in schools, and are very fast and jumpy.

The other fish should be fine though

 

[WayneVT08]

okay, thanks for the replies so far guys. =]

 

[WayneVT08]

any other replies please? I'm gonna make a detailed article with everything for each fish, including a picture so yeah, i should be able to have more information on the fish later tonight.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

RTBS can be tricky to stock with other fish, they tend to be peaceful when young/small but can turn quite agressive as they mature in some cases, particually when kept in smaller tanks...In my experience of keeping RTBS, they tend to leave danios. loaches and tetras alone on the whole, although i have no idea how they'd be around angels, probably not that great a combo in my opinion though.
Avoid putting them with fish that are brightly colored, slow, are a shark-type fish or look like a shark-type fish, agressive or semi-agressive or have distinct tail markings in general. If i had either of your two tanks and a RTBS, i'd put it in the 50gal but only if it didn't have the angels as i not sure about those.

RTBS have very much individual personalities, sometimes they can be angels throughout their lives and other times they can be little horrors- they generally don't try to kill other fish, but they can be terotorial and what they see as their terotory can be quite a broad vaque thing and it is usually their chasing of other fish that stresses them to death.
My RTBS is semi-agressive, but leaning towards the more peaceful side of the term "semi-agressive"- i keep him with a mix of livebearers, danios, tetras, WCMM, corys and plecs and khuli loachs (and some others i can't think of at the top of my head)- he was adopted from a friends 20gal, when i first got him he was very agressive but has cooled down a huge amount since being in a large tank and now only takes a mild interest in the other fish at feeding time when there's somthing good to eat .
I did have to move a female molly out of the tank though because she was gold with a black tail and he seemed particually agrivated by her though- i'm planning on moving her back in soon just to see how things go as its been 6months since they were in the same tank and as before mentioned, he's cooled off a serious amount since i've had him (about 6months). Things that seem to help a lot is having a mix of heavily planted areas and caves dotted around the tank with large but broken up open areas, red tailed black sharks are active fish but enjoy exploring caves and things- you should never keep RTBS together or other sharks or shark-looking fish with them etc.

 

[WayneVT08]

Since the other replies, I've leaned away from the RTBS and Bala Shark. So I think that's out of the question.

I made a revision of the previous list with more information on the fish, anyone wanna see it?

 

[jkrekord]

yeah ok post it up then

 

[jollysue]

I put a sprinkling of Pure Layerite down before the sand and gravel for a planted tank.

 

[WayneVT08]

Alright, I was thinking about these fish for the 55 gallon tank I found last Saturday. I still need to construct the stand so putting fish in it is a little ways off. I do need to get a hood for it, and filter and the works. So I have to take it slow.

Most of this information is from www.aquariumfish.net

Here’s the list as follows (this list is only for the 55 gallon tank.)

Clown Loaches
-Maximum Size: rarely grow larger than 6", in an aquarium
-Water Temperature: 78-82 degrees Fahrenheit

YoYo loaches
-Maximum Size: rarely grow larger than 4", in an aquarium
-Water Temperature: 78-82 degrees Fahrenheit

Giant Danios
-Maximum Size: 5”
-Water Temperature: 70-82 degrees Fahrenheit


Angel fish (maximum 2)
-Maximum Size: 12” tall…. I’m not sure about this, can anyone verify?
-Water Temperature: 78-82 degrees Fahrenheit

Bristlenose Plec (or another that wont get too big.)
-Maximum Size: Regular Plecostomus can live 10 years and probably much longer and grow to be at least 24" long, but they rarely exceed 12" in an aquarium. Do they do that?
-Water Temperature: 72-80 degrees Fahrenheit

Corydora
-Maximum Size:
-Water Temperature: degrees Fahrenheit

Can you fill these sections in? ^^^^^^^^^

And I took off the swordtails, being as it is a livebearer, and I am going to have a livebearer tank *maybe* by next year. But I would like another example of a fish that could be put in with the rest of these fish. Those fish up there can all be put together. Or from what I’ve read they can.

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The next list of the ones in my 30 gallon, or potentially in my 30 gallon, as I don’t have it yet, but I will!

Neon Tetra
Harlequin Rasbora
Black Phantom Tetra
Zebra Danios
Leopard Danios
Some type of Corydora...

From what I’ve heard here these fish will do well together. So if you think I need to any revisions to the list as of now. Please let me know. And I’m also looking for suggestions as to what else I could put in the 55. I pretty much know what I’m gonna do with the 30.

 

[jollysue]

I've always been told that clowns get 12" and live long if cared for. I have two about 3' or 4" in 100 usg. I understand that they grow slowly. Many people will trade them in when they get too big.

Common Plecs get huge, but BN stay 6" or less--I understand. There are some varieties (Albino, etc.) that stay about 4" or 5".

Coradoras are 1.5" to 3.5 (4"?)". There are multitudes of species. Figure on 2" to 3". They like water conditions tropical, 72 degrees to 82, and softer water. They are adaptable and hardy for the most part. They prefer sand.

Loaches and Coradoras though are schooling/tribal-like. They don't develop their personalities but stay shy with less than 5 in a group. You can start with two or three and add. Botia straita (zebra loach) eat snails and stay under 4", but they can be harder to get..

I am not familiar with the others in that list.

Your second list of mid swimming community fish should do well together, although I am not familiar with danios.

 

[wendywc]

I've seen angelfish at about 6" in length and 10" in height. Also zebra danios and leopard danios are the same species, just bred for different markings, so they do school together -- I've seen that and they look great together. But danios I think like bigger groups of 6-8+.

 

[WayneVT08]

Remember the tank is 20 inches tall, and I would like at least one angel fish. Can I fit 4 or five clown loaches in my tank? And what else would go good with them? Since clown loaches are bottom dwellers I want maybe 1 more bottom dweller species. Then maybe 2-3 mid swimmers and maybe 1 top swimmer, I saw a needle nose fish there. It just kinda sat on the top of the tank. Anything that will just swim around towards the top that is really cool? suggestions needed n everything. Also, I just got home from the LPS, and they don't have any albino plecs or bristlenose plecs, they do *I think* have some cory's or maybe some otos? I also got a list of fish for the 30 gallon that my local PetSmart has in stock right now. So here goes.

Lemon Tetra
Cherry Barb
Scissor Tail Rasbora
Black Phantom Tetra
Rasbora het.?
Long Finned Danio

Then the list for the 55 goes as follow (according to what the local PetSmart has)

Clown Loach
Angelfish
Giant Danio

Suggesst to me any other fish that won't get too big, too big is 8 inches. the biggest fish I want are the Loaches and the angelfish, even if its just one. they are so pretty. The Loaches will probably be in a group of 3 at first then another will be introduced then maybe one last one. What is a fish that I could start out with in the 55? Maybe a gourami of some type.
I wish I could get a list downloadable off of the internet of what they have in stock. But I can't. Thanks for the help guys!

 

[WayneVT08]

Any more suggestions guys?