Im Stuck For Ideas...

[caino]

I am really really really stuck, i got a rekord 60, around 12 uk/imperial galons, i was going to stock it with shell dwelling cichlids (N.multifacius) but it is virtually imposable for me to lay my hands on them so im stuck! I am looking for something a little different, wich i no is hard in a small tank, any ideas

 

[Breeze7050]

dwarf puffers seem to be good for the smaller tanks. Maybe 2 with 3 ottos ???

 

[jayjay]

Puffer? Abei/fangs/salavitor/dwarf/figure 8 etc.
Gobies? bumblebee/peacock/white cheek/knight etc.
Possibly a small snakehead species?
Badis?
South American leaf fish?
Killifish?
Dwarf sunfish?
Prehistoric Monster Fish?
Small cichlids? Dwarf acara's/rams/kribs/N. brichardi/Juli's/Egyptian mouthbrooders etc.
Other shell dweller species? brevis etc.
Small gourami's? Honey's/chocolate etc.
Sailfin tetra? Or any other small species.
Small catfish? Banjo/bumblebee etc. Cories and small plecs as well.
Small barbs? Pentazona etc.
Small loches? Khulie/chain etc.
Dwarf rainbows?
Hillstream loaches/minnows and other subtropicals?
Shrimp/crayfish (is you didn't live in the UK)/ADF/ACF etc.

There are loads of options. Are you after a species tank? Mixed fish? Small bio type? One fish? Lot's of fish? Colour? Activity? Unique/weird?

 

[caino]

oo thanks for that some interesting fishes there, just googling throught the list

 

[jayjay]

No problems

 

[caino]

do you have experience with any of these fish jayjay?

 

[jayjay]

Quite a few of them, yes. What you after/interested in?

 

[caino]

i have got absalutly nooo idea, preferably something that prefers harder water, and is relitivly hardy.

 

[Breeze7050]

great ideas jayjay WOW!
Caino- check the stickied links in the oddballs section, you can get some ideas in there too!

 

[jayjay]

If you consider going brackish(?) go for an F8. That's what I'd do personally, also add a small group of bumblebee gobies (give them lots of holes tog et away from the puffer at times). Both hardy and good for hard water.

 

[caino]

Yeh, it have been searching around on the brackish forum and doing reading on that, i may, or i may get shell dwellers, i dont know what to doooo mite start a poll, and iff i go with brakish, how large a group of bbg?

 

[jayjay]

What filtration you going to use? Normal Jewel? Maybe 3 or 4? Though I recommend to change the filter, or add another.

 

[caino]

Hmm I will probably do away with the Juwel box, and opt for external, if i am going to go brackish i mayaswell do it properly, can i pm you?+

 

[wolfrad]

this is kind of off the subject just a little but I was wondering what a dwarf sunfish is and what they look like, I've seen alot of this kind of fish mentioned on forums but I don't know what dwarf ones are. I've caught the large ones out of lakes and ponds and I love to eat them but I'm thinking that this is not that kind of fish.

 

[jayjay]

Enneacanthus chaetodon and Enneacanthus gloriosus are examples of dwarf sunfish.