Help Me Plan My Tank Please!

[codeajohnson]

Hello Everyone,

So I've finally moved my tank up to my apartment from home and I'm finally ready to start putting fish back in it. The tank is cycled, but I got rid of most of my fish because I was worried that the move would be too big of a stress. The tank is a 55 gallon tank, heavilly planted, and I want the center piece to be rams. I was thinking about going for two pair of rams. I would like to base my stocking around what would go good with the rams, so I thought to go along with them I was thinking

-4 paradise fish (gouramis)
-10 cherry barbs
-15 neon tetras
-6 khuli loaches
-briste nose pleco.

Any thoughts to this stocking? I would also appreciate any recommendations or suggestions on what else would fit in with this tank.

 

[clay]

Hello Everyone,

So I've finally moved my tank up to my apartment from home and I'm finally ready to start putting fish back in it. The tank is cycled, but I got rid of most of my fish because I was worried that the move would be too big of a stress. The tank is a 55 gallon tank, heavilly planted, and I want the center piece to be rams. I was thinking about going for two pair of rams. I would like to base my stocking around what would go good with the rams, so I thought to go along with them I was thinking

-4 paradise fish (gouramis)
-10 cherry barbs
-15 neon tetras
-6 khuli loaches
-briste nose pleco.

Any thoughts to this stocking? I would also appreciate any recommendations or suggestions on what else would fit in with this tank.

ok number 1 are the paradise fish males or females? because males will kill each other.(im speaking from exsperience.) then i think you should decorate the tank with live plants and dark colored rocks.(please exscuse my spelling errors.)

 

[codeajohnson]

Thanks for the reply Clay. I didn't know that it would matter one way or the other? So you would suggest going 1 male and 3 females? And the tank already is heavily planted

 

[shroob]

I'm just curious when you say 'the tank is cycled but I got rid of all the fish', surely the bacteria in the filter will die in just a bare tank, or are you doing something that I'm not thinking of?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

he said he got rid of most of his fish, not all of them, so there will be enough bacteria to support the current fishload and providing he builds stock up slowly from this point it'll be fine cycling wise.

i'm not up on my paradise fish so can't comment on that, but the rest of the set up works fine

 

[shroob]

Afff I missed that

 

[Truck]

a few flower pot caves would be good

 

[codeajohnson]

Yup...Miss Wiggle is correct. I did keep a couple fish in the tank when it was home for summer just for that reason. I had assumed that I had to add the fish slowly so the bacteria would be able to rebuild and handle the waste load, but I am happy that you mentioned it to confirm it. Thanks for the help everyone

 

[fishtankkid]

I would use smaller fish than gouramies such as tetras otherwise the gouramis may becoume the centrepiece...

 

[Truck]

4 paradise fish (gouramis)
-10 cherry barbs
-15 neon tetras
-6 khuli loaches
-briste nose pleco.

cherry barbs, neons and khuli loaches are incompatible, rams need to be kept at 28-30oC or there immune and digestive systems will slow down leaving them prone to disease such as hexamita. all it takes is one pathogen to attack the fishes immune system and it will be ill and dead in weaks (of course this is with a weak immune system). keep them at the right temp and they will thrive, swap the neons for cardinal tetras, swap the khuli loaches for sterbai cories, or another species that can handle higher temperatures.

 

[loraxchick]

old post

 

[Truck]

oh yeah lol only 6 months mind

 

[snowflake311]

The fish you picked look good but the paradise. The males are or can be on the aggressive side. If you want this tank to be all about the rams don't add the paradise fish. Maybe a female would be ok but the male might stress out the rams.

Make sure you have lots of hide outs in the tank rams are a bit on the shy side. Well my blue rams were but my Bolivian is very outgoing.