My 55 Gallon Community Tank

[sroach]

I am fairly new to the hobby and have been absorbing myself in all kinds of info. I admit, I may have not done as much research as I was setting up my tank, but it looks like I have a fairly decent community for now. I was wondering if anyone has any feedback as to how my tank looks.
The tank has been gradually set up over the course of about 6 week with daily monitoring of ammonia and nitirites, with frequent water changes (~30-40% every other day).

-55 gallon Tank
-Temp~79F
-pH~7.8-8
-Ammonia = 0
-Nitirite = 1
-Nitrate ~4-10ppm
-3 Angelfish
-6 bloodfin tetras
-6 lemon tetras
-4 julli corys
-1 panda cory (my favorite , I wish I could find him more freinds..there are none around)
-2 clown loaches

I know my angelfish, and clown loaches are going to get huge. When the time comes, I am fully prepared to getting a bigger tank. As for now everyone seems to be getting along fine, especially the bottom dwellers. All the cory's and clown loaches share a a spot under a big peice of driftwood. They tend to be a little scared of me and hide when I approach. I hope they chill out and get used to me. The angels and Tetras are very bold and seem to be always hungry (a good sign I guess).

Any thoughts for any new additions? Am I stocked enough already (possible)? I would like another school of Tetras, and freinds for my panda. Another clown loach or two would be nice. Any problems people see on the horizon with what I already have?

 

[rdd1952]

The stock list looks ok but as you said, you will eventually need to upgrade. The only thing I see is your pH is a little higher than optimal for them but they will adjust. You already have a piece of driftwood which should lower it some. What is the pH of your tap water? You could also add some peat to your filter to lower it some. Just don't use pH adjusters. They cause all sorts of problems. If it won't come down naturally, just leave it alone. They will adjust to it although it could be the reason the corys and clowns are hiding.

 

[dthoffsett]

Since you're still showing nitrIte, you're not fully cycled, so I would hold off adding anymore fish until your ammonia and nitrite stay 0.

Eventually, you'll want to add some more corys, even a different species will work if you can't find any more pandas, corys do best in groups of 5 or more. The same goes for the clown loaches.

Other than that, sounds like you have a nice set up.