My First Tank... Six Months On!

[Lanzuis]

Hello everyone, I have a 90 Gallon bowfront tank - My first tank! Now after encountering various issues like White spot and a massive algae 'infestation' (which my tank is still recovering from) I have developed my tank into this:
 
Please excuse the camera blur - taken on my phone.
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
My favourite fish - My Synodontis Decorus (Decorated Catfish)

 

 
 
At the moment, these fish are small but I know they will grow so I am investing in a larger, 150 Gallon tank soon to move these fish into.
 
I currently have:
 
10x Tiger Barbs,
2x Moonlight Gouramis,
2x Sword Tails,
1x Platie (The other 4 died T_T)
2x Silver Sharks,
3x Clown Loach,
1x Decorated Catfish,
1x Common Pleco
 
 

 

[Munroco]

Love the rock work, would be nice for some little cave dwelling cichlids

 

[sawickib]

Nice looking tank but im just going to say the bala sharks need a school of 6-8 and a tank 8-10 ft long when they are fully grown.
 
The common pleco can get near 2ft so i would recomend rehoming him soon because they are truley beasts.
 
If you could i rehome those fish and up the clown fish school to 6 and maybe up the tiger barb school to (not needed but it would look nice)

 

[Lanzuis]

Nice looking tank but im just going to say the bala sharks need a school of 6-8 and a tank 8-10 ft long when they are fully grown.
 
The common pleco can get near 2ft so i would recomend rehoming him soon because they are truley beasts.
 
If you could i rehome those fish and up the clown fish school to 6 and maybe up the tiger barb school to (not needed but it would look nice)

 
Don't worry - as I have finally decided I am going to be upgrading tanks to a 180 Gallon soon!

 

[sawickib]

 

Nice looking tank but im just going to say the bala sharks need a school of 6-8 and a tank 8-10 ft long when they are fully grown.
 
The common pleco can get near 2ft so i would recomend rehoming him soon because they are truley beasts.
 
If you could i rehome those fish and up the clown fish school to 6 and maybe up the tiger barb school to (not needed but it would look nice)

 
Don't worry - as I have finally decided I am going to be upgrading tanks to a 180 Gallon soon!

 

I would still recommend rehoming the balas and common, i had a 15" common in my 180 with little decor and it still had trouble getting around the tank.
 
Balas get 16" and dart alot so i would still recommend  300+ gallon tank for them.

 

[Lanzuis]

 

 


Nice looking tank but im just going to say the bala sharks need a school of 6-8 and a tank 8-10 ft long when they are fully grown.
 
The common pleco can get near 2ft so i would recomend rehoming him soon because they are truley beasts.
 
If you could i rehome those fish and up the clown fish school to 6 and maybe up the tiger barb school to (not needed but it would look nice)

 
Don't worry - as I have finally decided I am going to be upgrading tanks to a 180 Gallon soon!

 

I would still recommend rehoming the balas and common, i had a 15" common in my 180 with little decor and it still had trouble getting around the tank.
 
Balas get 16" and dart alot so i would still recommend  300+ gallon tank for them.

 


 
Ok thank you very much for the advice!
 
If I saved up then, the balas would be in there for another 6-8 months (They're still small so they should be ok for that amount of time right???) then I could get a 8ft 230 gallon tank - Would that be alright?

 

[delkimgreen1]

hey i think your tank looks cool, can only improve with time, i hope mines as good after 6 months

 

[sawickib]

Im not sure on the growth rates of balas so i cant really answer that sorry, what would the other two dimensions of the tank be?

 

[Lanzuis]

Im not sure on the growth rates of balas so i cant really answer that sorry, what would the other two dimensions of the tank be?

8ft x 3ft x 2ft

 

[sawickib]

Thats 359 gallons so id say that would be just fine haha