Balancing Fish Between Tanks.

[thatjonnyguy]

10 gallon:
Male lyretail Swordtail, Betta, Two glow green tetras, a rubberlip pleco and then a veiltail betta.

I have plenty of fake plants, and a few decorations for the loach and pleco to hide in.

29 gallon:
common pleco (5in), clown loach, two longfin danios, a siamese algae eater, a gold dojo loach, 2 kuhli loaches, an angelfish that is reaching 6in, two baby mollies, a male swordtail, 3 panda cories and a random cory, 2 halfbeaks (one possibly pregnant) and then a chocolate longfin bushynose pleco.

Could there be a way to balance this out a little better?

I have a smaller angelfish around 2 in or so and I can't seem to find a place for it. My bigger angelfish I believe would terrorize the little guy so I don't think I want to keep him in the 29 gal. (Any ideas?)

 

[Man of fish]

YES!!!!!!!! I'm sorry but your whole tank is a disaster!

Swordtail- will be fine
Betta- not compatible with the other betta whatsoever
Tetras- need groups of 6+
clown- need 6 ft tanks and 6+ groups. Can grow to 14"+
Pleco- too big for your tank by quite a bit.

 

[thatjonnyguy]

Well I only have one betta, and my pleco is only like an inch and a half, rubberlip plecos I heard to grow to be smaller than the common pleco. So the tetras I should just throw in the 40 with 4 more tetras? and the clown loach is still small enough to give me time to upgrade. Which will be a 55 soon. So should I just place the clown loach in the 29 gal?

YES!!!!!!!! I'm sorry but your whole tank is a disaster!

Swordtail- will be fine
Betta- not compatible with the other betta whatsoever
Tetras- need groups of 6+
clown- need 6 ft tanks and 6+ groups. Can grow to 14"+
Pleco- too big for your tank by quite a bit.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

You have a mix of sub-tropical and tropical fish plus within each of these divisions you have current lovers and haters.

Sub-tropical current junkies: Rubbernose (Chaetostoma spp., absolutely must have cool highly oxygenated water, 21C is a good starting point until you know which type it is); chocolate longfin bushynose pleco (ID needs confirming); two longfin danios
Sub-tropical calmer water: gold dojo loach (will reach ~25cm so needs a 5-foot tank and is a social fish that really ought to be in a 5+ group, that will place a big strain on the filtration's bacterial colony, can cope with some current if the above tank has some areas that are not turbulent)

Tropical current lovers: Swordtails; Mollies (which often do better in low end brackish setups); Common Plec (will reach 45-60cm
Tropical current haters: Angelfish (must have a deep tank that has >45cm of water depth); Kuhli Loaches (might be attacked by the Angelfish); Halfbeaks (might be safe if they are big enough, but any youngsters will have little.no chance); Panda Corydoras; Clown Loach (needs company ideally 10+, will reach >25cm eventually so will need big tank); Betta; Green Neon Tetra (? will be eaten by the Angelfish if I guessed right)

"random cory"? Some Corydoras experience temps as low as 15C (eg. Peppered), some need cooler than tropical temps, while some need tropical (eg. C. sterbai).

Your small Angelfish: Big problem, these cichlids should be singletons or 6+ groups, only a bonded pair can be reasonably trusted to be kept as a duo.

Conclusion: You need at least 4 different tanks for that list of fish, presuming you can create some calm areas for the Dojo Loach in the sub-tropical hight current tank, with the young Angelfish being kept with the vunerable tropicals that are in danger from the 6" specimen.

 

[Man of fish]

That is excellent advice^

I would just return most of your fish if possible, or rehome them so that your tanks can be more suitable.

 

[thatjonnyguy]

Would this work in the 29?
swordtail, danios, siamese algae eater, rubberlip pleco and then 4 cory cats. Possibly the halfbeaks? I don't want to depart with these guys

 

[Man of fish]

Yes that'll do, but up the danios and corys to 6. The halfbeaks are livebearers if I'm correct, but I really don't know, but if they are I think they'll be fine.