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  • Keep to i inch per gallon rule fool!

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Inch per fish guides are mostly twaddle, you can stock sensibly without them, just use common sense.

White clouds are temperate fish so avoid anything that likes the higher temp end so you can keep the tank around 23c at the most. That rules out rummy nose as suggested. Your bristlenose will tolerate that temp too.

Double your corys, three isn't a large enough group.

I'd up the minnows to at least 10-12.

You want something that tolerates and even enjoys heavy flow which rules out bettas, guppies, gouramis, any other flowing finned or slow fish.

How about some platys? Three or four would be fine, all males will prevent breeding, and it will add a splash of colour.

But this is what I would do:

Return the corys and exchange them for 6 peppered ones which like cooler temps.
Up the minnows to a dozen.
Add two or three Hillstream loaches.
Add three or four variatus platys.

All kept at about 20c. Bish bash bosh, easy temperate tank.
 
Inch per fish guides are mostly twaddle, you can stock sensibly without them, just use common sense.

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Return the corys and exchange them for 6 peppered ones which like cooler temps.
Up the minnows to a dozen.
Add two or three Hillstream loaches.
Add three or four variatus platys.

All kept at about 20c. Bish bash bosh, easy temperate tank.

Cheers, yes this was the original plan for the tank, but has evolved into what it is today. I won't return the cories, as, form the care level shown at the shop, they would be very soon dead - but I'll be trying to find peppered cories. They school together atm, I think they seem to exhibet normal cory behaviour so far, probably due to the ammount of cover etc. available and peaceful tankmates.

Cheers :) the whiteclouds are doing so well, and 4 of them are 5 years old ;p , that I think I'll grab some more of those!

edit* Oh and just as a headsup, though white clouds are indeed, what we refer to as 'temporate' fish, their natural habitat range has them living/breeding 18-26'C :) so I think as long as there is good flow etc. they are OK at their mid range of 20-24'C.

edit2* and goodness me my spelling is attrocious today!
 
Yes white clouds can tolerate higher temps but their ideal is cooler. I too have two elderly minnows from the temperate setup I had over 6 years ago, they're still going strong in my community tank, at a warmer temp - I call it their retirement home!
 
Yes white clouds can tolerate higher temps but their ideal is cooler. I too have two elderly minnows from the temperate setup I had over 6 years ago, they're still going strong in my community tank, at a warmer temp - I call it their retirement home!

Yes there a re many sub (or were many sub) populations of white clouds, some can tolerate 'low' low temps and others can't (e.g. down to around 12'C for some, but 15'C for others). usually the ideal temp is a 2'C margin from breeding range low/high, so in this case 18/20-22/24'c :) . Cheers :)
 

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