Final Bit Of Help On My Tanks - Please (stocking/species Etc)

[carney]

Hiya

I am new to fish keeping and have posted many questions on here today, all giving me varying advice, soem of which contradict each other:

Can anyone see any problem with the following:


These are going to be my 2 tanks (48x15x18)

A) 2 kribs, 3 loach, 1 rtb shark, 1 plec, 1 pictus, 1 blue acara, 2 keyhole, 1 firemouth, 2 angel, 2 festivum, 2 sailfin molly, 3 odessa barb, 4 tiger barb, 4 scissortails

B) 2 corydoras, 2 kuhli loach,5 neon tetra, 3 cardinal tetra, 5 serpae tetra, 5 black neon tetra, 5 black phantom tetra, 3 bleeding heart tetra, 5 red eye tetra


Sound ok
Any need swapping over??
Any no good?


Any help much appreciated
THANKS V MUCH

ps - this is not spam

 

[Ludwig Venter]

With the Blue Acara in "A", I would rather move the Scissor tails and the Mollies to "B", and in stead of getting 5 neons and 3 cardinals in "B", I would settle for only 6 Cardinals.... They do display much better than neons..... In tank "a", in place of the Mollies & scissors removed,... I'll add 4 Congo tetras (for a bit of life.... & coulour)

 

[carney]

Hi
Thanks for the advice mate

Would tank a not be overcrowded? i hope not, some say yes, some say no
also teh pictus catfish i hear can be very very aggrssive?

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Hi
Thanks for the advice mate

Would tank a not be overcrowded? i hope not, some say yes, some say no
also teh pictus catfish i hear can be very very aggrssive?

Unfortunately, I have no experience with Pictus, so cannot advise on that.... As to the overcrowding..... You are pushing it, but, will only compell more regular water changes.... I'd say about 33.33333% every week will do....

 

[carney]

Thanks very much
You seem to give the best advise on this forum


Much appreciated
Take care and happy new year


Dave

 

[Davo86]

These are going to be my 2 tanks (48x15x18)

A) 2 kribs, 3 loach, 1 rtb shark, 1 plec, 1 pictus, 1 blue acara, 2 keyhole, 1 firemouth, 2 angel, 2 festivum, 2 sailfin molly, 3 odessa barb, 4 tiger barb, 4 scissortails

drop the pictus, these get big and need to be kept in groups or they will hide

move mollys to B

Also the tank isn't big enough for all of the cichlids to have territories, i would either move the keyholes to tank B and have just the one Festivum or keep the keyholes in tank A and remove the festivums altogether

move the scissortails to tank B, these are at risk from getting killed by the others.

increase both barb species to 5

A) 2 kribs, 3 loach, 1 rtb shark, 1 plec, 1 blue acara, 2 keyhole, 1 firemouth, 2 angel, 5 odessa barb, 5 tiger barb,
OR
A) 2 kribs, 3 loach, 1 rtb shark, 1 plec, 1 blue acara, 1 firemouth, 2 angel, 1 festivum, 5 odessa barb, 5 tiger barb,


B) 2 corydoras, 2 kuhli loach,5 neon tetra, 3 cardinal tetra, 5 serpae tetra, 5 black neon tetra, 5 black phantom tetra, 3 bleeding heart tetra, 5 red eye tetras

increase Corydoras numbers to 5-6
tetras shoals should be at least 5
personally would drop 2 tetra species in favour of a centrepiece fish such as pearl gouramis.

B) 6 corydoras, 2 kuhli loach,5 neon tetra, 5 serpae tetra, 5 black neon tetra, 5 black phantom tetra, 5 red eye tetras, 4 scissortails, 3 mollys (1M2F), 2 Keyholes

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Thanks very much
You seem to give the best advise on this forum


Much appreciated
Take care and happy new year


Dave

That's a very nice thing to say, but the best advice I can give to anyone on this forum,... is to listen intently when you get advice from Big_C.... Tolak...... Collin_T..... or Inchworm.... verrrrrry sound advice from those quarters, & you can't go wrong.

 

[carney]

Thanks Dav but wouldnt 42 fish in tank b be too much?

 

[OohFeeshy]

I would also increase kuhlis to at least 6, otherwise you'll never see them. Luckily they add little to the bioload.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Thanks Dav but wouldnt 42 fish in tank b be too much?

& i'm a bit concerned with the keyholes in tank "B"..... ??

 

[Davo86]

Thanks Dav but wouldnt 42 fish in tank b be too much?

neons, black neons and kuhli loach are barely an inch in size and don't really have too much of a bioload so i wouldn't personally be too concerned by having that number of fish in a 55USG tank,

Also I would personally be 100% comfortable adding keyholes to a tank with tetras and the other species in your stocking, I currently have two of these and IMO they are very peaceful considering they are a cichlid,