Help With Stocking My 105 Litre Tank

[pdludbrooke]

My cycle is nearly complete, this is the first time I have kept tropical fish, I was lucky enough to have found this site and learn about the fishless cycle, but now I have come to the next problem and learning curve, what fish to get

I want to have plants and am going to do what Tizer has done and order 20 assorted easy to care for plants (not all for this tank)
from last-trading-post on ebay (thanks Tizer!!)

Right, my tank is bow front 105 litre

Length=60cm
Width= 40cm
Height=45cm
PH is 7.3
according to our water company report our KH is 315 (22 degrees clarke ?) (3.2 mili-mols/ litre mmol/l ???) so Hard water.
37 ppm nitrAte from the tap

What suggestions can you give for stocking my tank, thanks in advance.

 

[pdludbrooke]

Here's a photo

 

[ZoddyZod]

that's a very open question! What sort of fish do you like?

What I used to do was to go to LFS armed with a notebook and make notes of the fish I found interesting, then research them on the interenet and on here to see if they were suitable.

 

[pdludbrooke]

that's a very open question! What sort of fish do you like?

What I used to do was to go to LFS armed with a notebook and make notes of the fish I found interesting, then research them on the interenet and on here to see if they were suitable.

ok will do, Thanks, I'll post a list and get feedback, thanks again!

 

[ZoddyZod]

just a few you can ignore for now due to tank size....

Mbuna cichlids
Majority of South/Central American cichlids that are NOT classed as 'dwarf' (if they have 'Apisto' in their name, it's a dwarf)
Any type of 'shark'

 

[OldMan47]

Your fairly hard water would lend itself well to most of the available livebearers that you will find. Many of the egg layers prefer softer water but some of them adapt well as long as you don't expect to be able to breed them. Things like rasboras, well known to be soft water fish, will thrive in your tank but the eggs they lay will never be fertile in such water. My own water runs at about 225 ppm of TDS and a pH of 7.8. I can keep almost any livebearer at all and many egg layers as well. Right now my big community tank includes giant danios, head and tail lights and a pleco along with other fish I have already mentioned. At other times I kept some very nice angels, neons, cardinals and a few wild type bettas like B. simplex and B. pugnax. Over the years I have bred rainbow cichlids and almost any livebearer in my water. Your water is simply not that bad for adult fish.