Fish Bucketlist

[TallTree01]

So I was bored on the weekend and threw together a fish bucketlist of all the fish I can keep.
Here it is:
Centerpiece fish

striped gourami
Bitterling ^
Albino/regular paradise fish ^
African butterfly cichlid*/(apisto/ram/Bolivian) cichlid*/dwarf* / honey gourami
Male betta

Schooling fish
neon / cardinal/ black neon/ ember/ glowlight/head and tail light/lemon/Paraguay/pristella/silvertip  tetras/ black widow* /flame/emperor/diamond/penguin/ (red/black) phantom /rosy / rummynose/beunos aires* /gold tetras
cherry/checker/ /5 banded/black ruby/checkered barb+ mystery snail
neon (praecox) rainbow fish
zebra/ leopard danios ^
mountain minnow ^

Other
cherry/ghost shrimp
guppies
platies
swordtail
Dwarf gourami trio ( 1 male and 2 females)
halfbeaks

Cleaners
mystery snail
Freshwater mussel
Red ramshorn snail

Key:
Aggressive/ fin nipper - *
Temperate/ coldwater - ^

So what are your thoughts?

Anything I should take off my bucketlist?
Anything I could add to my bucketlist?
( please don't trash the bucketlist. This took me about 1 1/2 hours )

 

[fluttermoth]

I would take the zebra/leopard danios and the white clouds off; not really enough room for them in even the largest BiOrbs.

 

[Wills]

What size tank?

 

[twodoctors]

What size tank?

He said a bucket.

 

[DreamertK]

What size tank?

He said a bucket.

  You need to write comedy.
 
I probably wouldn't do the cool water fish or the black widow tetras, especially how it limits your stock and probably isn't very good for inverts/long fins.
 
If I could have a bucket list, I'd put in a good sized harem of sparkling/honey gourami in my 30g. Those guys are so adorable.

 

[TallTree01]

I would take the zebra/leopard danios and the white clouds off; not really enough room for them in even the largest BiOrbs.

Consider them removed!

What size tank?

He said a bucket.

Biorb 105 and < face palms > lol at 2D

What size tank?

He said a bucket.

  You need to write comedy.
 
I probably wouldn't do the cool water fish or the black widow tetras, especially how it limits your stock and probably isn't very good for inverts/long fins.
 
If I could have a bucket list, I'd put in a good sized harem of sparkling/honey gourami in my 30g. Those guys are so adorable.
Aren't the widows only nippy when kept in tiny schools?
For most of the tetras and schooling fish I'd only do 9-11.
Harem?
Like a group or something?



I've added sparkling gouramis to the list.

Questions:
Is there a difference between croaking gouramis and sparkling gouramis?
Do sparkling gouramis croak?
Does anyone have any footage of gouramis croaking?

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

So I was bored on the weekend and threw together a fish bucketlist of all the fish I can keep.
Here it is:
Centerpiece fish

striped gourami
Bitterling ^
Albino/regular paradise fish ^
African butterfly cichlid*/(apisto/ram/Bolivian) cichlid*/dwarf* / honey gourami
Male betta

Schooling fish
neon / cardinal/ black neon/ ember/ glowlight/head and tail light/lemon/Paraguay/pristella/silvertip  tetras/ black widow* /flame/emperor/diamond/penguin/ (red/black) phantom /rosy / rummynose/beunos aires* /gold tetras
cherry/checker/ /5 banded/black ruby/checkered barb+ mystery snail
neon (praecox) rainbow fish
zebra/ leopard danios ^
mountain minnow ^

Other
cherry/ghost shrimp
guppies
platies
swordtail
Dwarf gourami trio ( 1 male and 2 females)
halfbeaks

Cleaners
mystery snail
Freshwater mussel
Red ramshorn snail

Key:
Aggressive/ fin nipper - *
Temperate/ coldwater - ^

So what are your thoughts?

Anything I should take off my bucketlist?
Anything I could add to my bucketlist?
( please don't trash the bucketlist. This took me about 1 1/2 hours

)

I've crossed numerous species that I would have no hesitation in not putting in such a tank and even then there are a few I consider borderline.
 
It might be just over 60cm diameter across the tank's centre, but the footprint at the base and importantly for the water surface gives a tiny surface area for natural aeration. The Biorb 105 holds 105l, but a regular 120x30x30cm (108l) could safely stock far more fish and give active/territorial fish some room, I would not put more than 50cm of sedate adult fish in the Biorb eg. 10x Pristella Tetra.

 

[TallTree01]

Thanks guys!
Another quickie @ NOTG:
Why not the platies?
Too active or...?

I have a new list:
striped/dwarf* / honey gourami
betta

Schooling fish
neon / cardinal/ black neon/ ember/ glowlight/head and tail light/lemon/pristella/flame/emperor/ (red/black) phantom /rosy / rummynose/ gold tetras
cherry/checker/ /5 banded/ checkered barb+ mystery snail
neon (praecox) rainbow fish

Other
cherry shrimp
guppies
Dwarf gourami trio ( 1 male and 2 females)

Cleaners
mystery snail
Freshwater mussel
Red ramshorn snail

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Platties are far too active and potentially very aggressive with each other and tankmates IMO, I would not put a group in anything less than a 90cm tank (but longer would be better).

 

[DreamertK]

 

 


What size tank?

He said a bucket.

  You need to write comedy.
 
I probably wouldn't do the cool water fish or the black widow tetras, especially how it limits your stock and probably isn't very good for inverts/long fins.
 
If I could have a bucket list, I'd put in a good sized harem of sparkling/honey gourami in my 30g. Those guys are so adorable.
Aren't the widows only nippy when kept in tiny schools?
For most of the tetras and schooling fish I'd only do 9-11.
Harem?
Like a group or something?



I've added sparkling gouramis to the list.

Questions:
Is there a difference between croaking gouramis and sparkling gouramis?
Do sparkling gouramis croak?
Does anyone have any footage of gouramis croaking?
I've never kept them myself, I just wouldn't risk it with my gourami's long pectoral fins. I wouldn't be able to tell you in larger shoals though I've seen them be aggressive with each other in other tanks.
A male or two to a bunch of females.

 
Same species.
I suppose so, though I've never had them.
I tried looking it up but the videos didn't have any sound. Or maybe there's something wrong with my comp.

 

[b3cca]

Hi talltree
 
I have 3 sparkling gouramis, never heard mine croak/click yet but they definately can do it, think when they spawn or are angry..
Some good youtube vids of sparkling gouramis croaking/clicking.
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Atf76jhrw
 
 
 
Never actually see mine though lol, well one is pretty brave and come out for food, but the other 2 are pretty shy I never see them lol

 

[TallTree01]

Wow, they're certainly quite loud. Thanks b3cca.

I'm fairly certain I already know the answer to this but would upside down or glass catfish work?

 

[fluttermoth]

No to both, really.
 
I suppose you could do glass cats, but they need to be in a big group, so it would have to be a species tank only, there would not be room for anything else, apart from shrimps.
 
Getting it planted enough for them would be tricky also, although you could do lots of Java fern and anubias on wood.
 
I would leave them off your bucket list, tbh.