Freshwater Fish Ideas

[FishGuest5123]

I’d like to get something a little different for my 20G long community tank. 0,0, 10 Params with pH 7.0 I think KH was 4 and GH was 9 on last test. I have 6 Neons, 3 glo lights, 6 cherry barbs, 6 golden white clouds and 5 long fin leopard danios in tank. Anything unique that I could add to the tank?

 

[Colin_T]

How about increasing the number of neons, glowlights and danios?
Although there are quite a few fish in the tank already.

Chuck em all out and get some Iriatherina werneri.

 

[FishGuest5123]

I don’t want to chuck the ones I have. I wanted something with a little more color. Just something different.

 

[AbbeysDad]

Last year or the year before I went to the national aquarium in Baltimore. In the mall outside, in a Barnes and Noble book store, they had a huge (800+ gallon) planted tank with 4-8 dozen neon tetras. It was amazing to watch.
So I'm with @Colin_T although you may be pushing your bio-load unless you're doing frequent partial water changes of sufficient volume.

 

[FishGuest5123]

I may do that then. I clean my tanks on Monday’s with 70% water change and then do another 70% every Thursday just because my Goldie’s are such dirty birds...um, I mean fish. Thanks, guys!

 

[Colin_T]

If you're keeping them you need more glowlights, 3 is not enough for them to be happy.

All those fish will be fine in cooler water too, 18-24C (64-75F). The cooler water will be better for the danios and white clouds.

 

[FishGuest5123]

I had more glo lights but they disappeared. One by one over time. I watch closely when I vac but the Python must have got them. Never found them. I’ll get some more. My heater is preset at 76F but with summer it stays around 78F.

 

[seangee]

(800+ gallon) planted tank with 4-8 dozen neon tetras. It was amazing to watch.

Agree with that. I managed to stress my cardinals today (I had to catch 6 sids that were in their tank). I have 29 cardinals in there and for the 10 minutes after I finished they were shoaling tightly it really was spectacular. Thankfully everything is back to normal and the tank seems quite serene without the sids racing about.

 

[Back in the fold]

Agree with that. I managed to stress my cardinals today (I had to catch 6 sids that were in their tank). I have 29 cardinals in there and for the 10 minutes after I finished they were shoaling tightly it really was spectacular. Thankfully everything is back to normal and the tank seems quite serene without the sids racing about.

29 Cardinal Tetras ! That is awesome ! Huge groups of fish like tetras are a spectacular sight. The thing post #4 was talking about, well that would stop you in your tracks and bring on a coronary. I can't even imagine. I think Deanasue should get a big school of regular White Clouds. They like cooler water and you don't see them nice and well grown as often as we should. They really are quite pretty.

 

[FishGuest5123]

My golden white clouds are my fav.