Fully Stocked Or Room For More?

[joshjames]

so iv got a 300 litre tank setup with
3 small angels
3 opaline gouramis
15 cardinal tetra
2 clownloaches
4 platys
it looks very spacious at the moment but with the angels getting say 7" with the gouramis at 5" fully grown will there be any space for more
i am aware i will probably have to return one angel when a pair is formed and the risk with the cardinals being eaten
i am defo getting some pleco probs BN
is there anything else i could get
was thinking about a shoal of large tetra or perhaps a severum or other dwarf cichlids but dont no much about dwarf cichlilds
any help would be great

 

[OldMan47]

My daughter has severums and I would not call them dwarf anything. They are from 6 to 10 inches long and 3 or 4 of them would fill that tank. It looks to me like you do have some room in the tank for a few more fish but not a lot of space. A shoal of rummy nose or rasbora hets might be a good choice. They would also be good fish for when the angels start devouring the cardinals. Dwarf cichlids like kribensis might also work. I am not sure how any of these would work with clown loaches because I have never kept them.

 

[Truck]

clown loaches would outgrow your tank.

 

[prankster705]

Lets be serious on clown loaches though... they grow seriously slow, and while they might eventually out-grow it (big enough for an adult imo though), it is extremely unlikely that they will do so in the near future.

 

[Truck]

there shoaling fish that are very active, groups of 3+ a 300 litre with a foot print of 121*50 wouldnt be enough IMO for clown loaches to thrive

 

[prankster705]

and after 6" the grow like 1" per year if that... so realistically speaking, are you saying that a 48" x 20" is not big enough for 3 8" long fish? It'll be big enough for them for a long while.

 

[Truck]

have you ever tried getting rid of a 8" clown loach?

 

[prankster705]

Big clown loaches actually sell pretty well for a lot of money at auctions . Have you ever seen a clown loach bigger than 8"? Maybe the 1 or 2, but they're exceptionally rare and demand a high price.

 

[Truck]

yes and hard to get rid of, personally i wouldnt bother

 

[prankster705]

Actually really easy to get rid of, because they're rare. It's like saying that a big asian arowana is hard to get rid of, get serious lol.

 

[Truck]

they are hard to get rid of due to size and price the only place your going to get rid of one is at an auction, and for some its inconvenient, there are nicer fish out there that dont grow as big.

 

[prankster705]

Lets see, it's a nice fish, you can enjoy it for a really long time before it out-grows the tank and you can easily sell an 8" big loach for around 75 quid without much hassle, there's always people looking for nice fish .

 

[Truck]

well in my opinion, and in the UK its hard to get rid of a big clownloach,, trust me ive tried it, the Lfs's the papers, auctions (2). i managed to give it to an aquarium, but it was tough.

 

[prankster705]

Give it away for free and you'll have a line in front of your door lol.

Edit... your sig says you have a 125 liter tank, which is nowhere near enough for a BIG loach which means it wasn't that BIG?

 

[Truck]

i offered it for free lol, but there were no takers. anyway BTT (back to topic)