Community Fish

[Pino]

hi
I am due to get an aqua tropic 60 for christmas and can't wait.
I have a plan of using sand an bogwood with real plants as I would like to make it as realistic as possible and interesting not only for me but more importantly the fish. But what community fish would be best suited to this 65 ltr. I was looking at catfish due to them being effective algea eaters but I am new to the hobby an would rather ask people with a good knowledge and experience first.
please help.

 

[aly_starh]

Have you read up on cycling?
Fish-less cycle Fish-In Cycle I would strongly reccommend a fish-less cycle. As far as fish stocking goes this is what i have-

Just as an idea, my 65l community setup is:
1 Dwarf Gourami
1 Male Betta (rip)
3 zebra Danios
7 Cardinal Tetras
3 Julli Cories (need to buy atleast 2 more)

 

[waterdrop]

I like Rasbora Heteromorpha (Harlequins) as a great beginner community fish. Honey Gouramis are a good larger fish for a tank like that. Neon or Cardinal Tetras are always wonderful, although you need to be prepared to wait about 6 months (!) before introducing them to the tank. There are many types of Corydoras bottom dweller species that could be considered. Many common types of Plecs (sucker fish) should not be considered because they would quickly get too big for the tank. Glowlight, Head&Taillight and quite a few other tetras are also possibilities. Many livebearers (Platies, swordtails, guppies) are popular beginner fish but in fact they add to the complications since they will immediately be having fry and making it hard to plan your stocking load on the tank, which is important.

As said, Fishless Cycling is probably the single most important beginning aspect not understood when people first encounter the Tropical Fish Keeping hobby. The filter equipment sold to you will actually be just a hardware kit, meant really to be used by an experienced hobbyists to prepare what's known as a "biofilter." It takes between 3 weeks and 2 months to grow this biofilter, depending on your luck and circumstances. Until the biofilter is working properly, the tank is not really suitable for fish. But in our beginner section here, our "New to the Hobby" forum, you've run across the perfect place to get guidance and constant help with the Fishless Cycle and during those couple of months you can further work on and refine your stocking plan and end up with just the right sort of community of fish that will please you and be enjoyable to keep as a first tank.

Good luck, welcome to the forum and I hope to see you around with more questions.

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[furry catfish]

as suggested above I strongly recomend harlequins,they are really nice looking and hardy.this is my 65 l setup if you want to pick out a few things

8 harlequins
2 amano shrimp
2 dwarf frogs
3 male guppys
2 dwarf cockatoo chichlids

but there are a lot more options just research and see what fish you like



chris