Dairy Of A Community Tank By Me [updated]

[bharathbala2003]

well i have ordered for my 2nd tank.. a 160 litres tank (3feetX1.5feetX1.25feet LxBxH) i need some advice on what fishes to keep.. am not gonna make it heavily planted.. i have 10 Kgs of sand and about 5 Kgs of pebbles to put on it .. i got a multilayer filter that turns out about 200 gallons an hour.. two airstones..

what i need is..

1.)what plants to put..

2.)what fishes to put..

P.S: in my 1st tank(7gallon) i have 2 koi carps and a gold fish.. so i dont want same breed.. i want to have 2 oranda gold in that.. so i would like to know which fishes can go in with that.. i would like to have some colourful fishes in it.. i am from india and i don know the scientific names.. so pls explain in normal words

 

[bharathbala2003]

my tank has arrived and i have put it for fishless cycle.. can u please temme which plants to keep? and which fishes to buy

 

[Joviella]

Why don't you research tropical community tanks and see what you like. Plenty of colourful fish to choose from!! Good Luck.

 

[J4MES]

erm pal you have koi in a 7g tank?

i would find them a pond before you do anything else

J4MES

 

[bharathbala2003]

i tout il edit the topic and make it as my dairy.. lol

well yday i went and got a little more of sand and cleaned it and put it in the tank.. the water is a little cloudy still.. and i guess it will be fine within a few days.. also i got 5 pieces of slate rocks.. and i have made a arrangement as a small cave.. hopefully il add a few more slates later this week along with some plants.. il upload the pics soon.. the filter is working great i ve ordered for a test kit which might be arriving in a few days.. plannin to have a aggressive community tank that might consist of couple of discus , oscars and mayb a rainbow shark.. if i add tetras will they be eaten by the oscars and discus or shark?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

i tout il edit the topic and make it as my dairy.. lol

well yday i went and got a little more of sand and cleaned it and put it in the tank.. the water is a little cloudy still.. and i guess it will be fine within a few days.. also i got 5 pieces of slate rocks.. and i have made a arrangement as a small cave.. hopefully il add a few more slates later this week along with some plants.. il upload the pics soon.. the filter is working great i ve ordered for a test kit which might be arriving in a few days.. plannin to have a aggressive community tank that might consist of couple of discus , oscars and mayb a rainbow shark.. if i add tetras will they be eaten by the oscars and discus or shark?

bad idea i'm afraid

firstly your tank isn't big enough for oscars or discus, secondly discus like their water very very clean and oscars are very messy fish, thirdly oscars are about a million times more aggressive than discus and will relentlessly bully them. eventually you will end up with an oscar and no discus, then as the oscar gets older he'll die from being cramped into too small a tank. and yes the oscars would eat tetras as would the shark and possibly the discus.

don't mean to be harsh but that's the reality of putting these fish together so i'd revise your plans a bit.

if you have a read of the link in my sig 'how to work out stocking lists' it should give you an idea of how to work out what fish are compatible with what other ones.

i'd suggest two possible options for you

1 - semi aggressive community tank
rams
dwarf cichlids
gouramis
angels
and some dither fish such as tetras

2 - oddball tank
best to post in the oddball section for advice but maybe something like dwarf snakeheads would appeal to you?

also you need to get the koi out of the 7gal tank, they need something like 3000gallon ponds, he'll die very soon in such a small tank.

 

[bharathbala2003]

ok.. thanks a lot for the advice i din know that.. i liked the look of oscars so i wanted to add em.. il check out ur siggy as well as the oddballs.. and the next time i go to my LFS il return my koi's

 

[Miss Wiggle]

sounds good

oscars are lovely here's mine, but the tank needs to be 75gallons as a bare minimum, yours is around 40 gallons

 

[bharathbala2003]

oh ok.. can u suggest some good plants? i saw this in one member's siggy..

1 Male betta, 3 Mickey mouse platies, 2 Sunset/Orange platies, 2 blue platies, 1 Pineapple lyretail swordtail, 2 Balloon Mollies, 3 Black long-finned skirt tetras, 1 gold killifish, 1 mini ramshorn snail (Got him accidentally with some fish, it's only a cm big), 3 Neon tetras, 4 Cherry Barbs, 6 ghost shrimp, 1 Chinese algae eater, 1 Farlowella, and 2 Dojo loaches

do u advice i keep something like this? i saw the odd balls not too much appealing to me.. actually i have the interest to get a stingray but am afraid i dont have the time or the wallet to do so right now lol.. also a doubt i have recently only switched to sand.. (was using chips and stones) i want to know what will happen if i put an airstone? will the sand get messy or do i put in a fancy airstone (i saw one in the lfs a glass tube with small holes thats to be fixed on the tank wall and bubbles come thro that)

 

[Miss Wiggle]

here is a list of easy plants http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...p;#entry1382934

you could go with a nice community of small fish if that's what you want. a 40gal tank gives you room to have some larger fish if you want them but you have to be careful not to go too big. why not try looking through the members pics section for some inspiration

if you put an airstone in then use a sucker to attach it to the side of the tank about 2" above the sand and then it'll be fine.

 

[bharathbala2003]

hmm ok.. i saw the pics.. there are some brilliant works done.. i wish i can do somethin too.. btw just added some de-cholorinator.. as the municipal supply contains a bit of cholorine

 

[andywg]

Where's the milk?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Where's the milk?

behave yourself, i really resisted saying that.

 

[rob newland]

Where's the milk?

behave yourself, i really resisted saying that.

you what now

koi in a 7g
Get a pond!
we keep our koi in a 7500g pond (although they dont need that big) and they do get rather big.
Don't mean to sound rude but you really need to sort that out before anything.

As for the stocking you listed from someones sig, it seems ok but i would avoid mollies (should be kept in brackish), and also go for more of the same, rather than more different species - it will look better.

Rob

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Where's the milk?

behave yourself, i really resisted saying that.

you what now

read the title of the thread again