Looking For Inspiration

[macksjay]

Hello I have a Juwel Rio 180 which is in a fishless cycle and need ideas on a stock list.
I would like a pair of kribs and after that I`m not really bothered but the wife wants bright/nice ( she really wants yellow) coloured fish.
So any ideas on a stock list would really help

Thanks for any ideas

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Hmm, not many yellow fish spring immediately to mind for me...
My Yellowtail Congo Tetras
Ram Cichlids (but a 180 may be too small to house two pairs of cichlids, especially when the Kribs would bully the Rams very easily, I suspect)
Forktail Blue-Eye Rainbowfish (which might well work with the bottom-dwelling Kribs, as these guys stay up near the water surface, would need something like 2 males and 4/5 females)
Bumblebee Goby (some ~2cm babies looked lovely at my LFS, but think they are brackish rather than freshwater)

Other bright coloured fish that might work in a Rio 180 that come to mind are...
Neon Dwarf Rainbowfish (needs at least 5 in group)
Pristella/X-ray Tetra (needs 5+ group)
Zebra Otos (develope lovely black/white stripes when settled in, but can be a bit hit or miss when it comes to acclimitising success, stay small at ~4cm)
Cherry Barb (needs 5+ group, regarded as very community friendly for a barb, plus they stay small)
Panda Garra (cannot recommend these enough, if my 3 are typical, very playful/inquistive fish in a trio. Will eat tank algae as part of their diet, like Otos, but grow to ~7cm)
Celestial Pearl Danios [Galaxy Rasbora] (small but lovely colourful fish, ought to stay in upper half of tank and so avoid the potentially aggressive breeding Kribs)
Denisons Barb [Redline Torpedo] (may get too big for 180l, as they can reach 15cm, but lovely placid shark-like fish, would really neeed at least a trio)
Celebes Rainbowfish (would need 5+, gorgeous green/blue stripes, orange/yellow fins, males have extra display dorsal fins)

That's about all my tired brain can come up with right now

 

[meguro]

3-6 platies (sunset are a nice orange/yellow colour)
OR
3-6 swordtails (more females than males)

7+ tiger barbs (dont get less than 7 if u opt for them)
OR
5-7 dwarf neon rainbowfish, melanotaenia praecox (if u dont want the tiger barbs)

1-2 bristlenose plec

2 kribensis

you would still have room for some corydoras or loaches or some other fish too

 

[GAB99]

barb i would not recomend,and they wouldnt need a trio they are a schooling fish and imo look better in a normal sized school

bumblebees are indeed brackish and unsuitable for the tank

i have seen yellow angelfish if that works to your liking

another great one would be gold barbs, name says it all, lovely schooling fish that gets about 3" max and very fun to watch

 

[SlyPolak]

If your girl wants yellow, you could always try GOLD angels.. I have 2 gold and they are purty ..

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

barb i would not recomend,and they wouldnt need a trio they are a schooling fish and imo look better in a normal sized school

another great one would be gold barbs, name says it all, lovely schooling fish that gets about 3" max and very fun to watch

I only mentioned the Redline Torpedo Barb as a trio, as I believe they lose their schooling tendancy as they get older, with adults being quite solitary. Hence I only bought a trio the other day for my 240l, but perhaps I have read the wrong things on the interweb about trios being ok. If several owners of these lovely guys can tell me otherwise, I would not need my arm twisted with too much force to get another couple

Good call on the Gold Barb (Puntius semifasciolatus), they are often more yellow than orange too, they came close to being on my planned stock. A 5/6 group of these could work in a 180 for macksjay, not reknowned as nippy barbs.

However, as I am going for less common fish, I'm planning a 5/6 school of "Orange-ringed Barb" (puntius Rhomboocallatus). Again these might work in a 180, but are not seen so often, I'm just very lucky with a LFS that sources lots of rarer fish species

 

[macksjay]

I like the swordtails and the dwarf neon rainbowfish but when I used the aq advisor calculator and it says When Kribensis starts to breed, they may become too aggressive to co-exist with Swordtail

 

[BethK]

Kuli loaches, ever so cute. Got 2 today and have to say, fallen for them! You could have a group of 8 in there.

 

[meguro]

kribensis can be quite aggressive towards other fish when breeding but i really doubt that they would do anything to swordtails/rainbowfish

note also that rainbowfish can be rather plain looking until theyre put into a proper tank and given a little time to mature