My 150L And 60L Planted Tanks

[fish_ant32]

Hello all,

This is my first post on this forum so I'd thought I'd just say hello and post my tanks to see what you think.

This is My Large Tank (150L) that I have recently rescaped and is growing well after a couple of weeks. Ignore the yellow leaves, some of them are still dying off after being freshly planted.

Angel, Blue Dwarf Gourami, BN Pleco, Longfin BN Pleco, Sucking Cat.

Tank is lacking in fish I know. I used to have a ghost knife(20cm) but he got sick and died and I also had 2 Silver Sharks but they got too big for the tank so now there's a gap and it means there's new fish to be bought .
If you want to make some suggestions on what i should put in there please go ahead, though i was thinking about putting my larger tetras(Rosey, Serpae) in there if they will get along with my Angel, but i'm not so sure because I hear that they might nip at the Angels fins?

On the left side I am trying to grow Riccia for the first time using soft nylon netting around a piece of scenery (any advice to add to this process would be awesome).

And here is my small (60L) Tetra community.

5 Rosey, 5 Serpae, 4 Rummy nose (which have gotten shy, so i need more) and a sucking cat.

Hope you like my tanks.

 

[mattlee]

both tanks look really nice, well done

do you have any idea of the species the sucking cats are? as there are some that get quite big and aggressive...

as for stocking in the larger tank why not add another 2 angels, great fish and even better with a small group of them. also a single siamese algae eater isnt a bad choice of fish in a planted tank as they will graze on pretty much every algae type and are also a very attractive fish. can get aggressive if kept in twos or threes though so a single fish would be great and they are really cheap so wont hurt your wallet. i also think that a group of shoaling fish would look superb and add a splash of colour to the tank, just be carefull with smaller torpedo shaped fish as the angel take to them! although ive never lost any small tetras with angels many advise that it wont work, also in a planted tank there are many spaces that an angel cant get due to its size and shape so lots of escape routes for smaller fish rummynose and cardinal tetras are my favourites

 

[fish_ant32]

Good question, here's a pic of one. They're both the same and breed constantly when together.

I also once dropped him, accidentally stepped on him when moving him from my smaller tank and he didn't seem to care much.
Also he was once housed with another Gourami which he terrorized into getting dropsy and dying...if you class that as aggressive?

 

[mattlee]

Good question, here's a pic of one. They're both the same and breed constantly when together.

it looks like a chinese algae eater, be very carefull of these as they can be trouble when older and get quite big i would remove him asap as they can get very aggressive towards anything it sees....
you could replace it with a group of otocinclus, these are very small so you could have a nice group of them. also very tame and wont harm anything and great algae eaters.

 

[ZoddyZod]

nice planted tanks, you seem to have considerably green fingers.