My New Tanks Mixture, Ok?

[Jamesham]

I have recently started a new tank. It is 60 litres. I have the filter and everthing OK. I now have the following;

5 Neon Tetras
2 Fancy Guppies
2 Male Swordtails
2 Female Swordtails
1 Red-Tailed Shark
2 Weird Small White Loaches, Albino Colour

I was just wondering what people think of this mixture and how I should improve my tank.


Thanks in advance,

Jamesham

 

[crazie.eddie]

How long has the tank been running?


The red tail shark will get too big for the size of the tank.

The ratio for livebearers should be at least 2 or more females for each male. So you should have 3 females and 1 male platy. The reason is, livebearers, are very prolific. Therefore, you will soon have LOTS of babies. If you do not want to have the babies, change to all males or all females.

Regarding the loach, can you provide a pic?

 

[Jamesham]

the 'loach' I have found is an albino cory cat

and in reply I have a currently small red tailed shark and it is smaller than it should be, the same size as my guppies so I think it is OK

tank has been running for 2 months

 

[Jamesham]

How long has the tank been running?


The red tail shark will get too big for the size of the tank.

The ratio for livebearers should be at least 2 or more females for each male. So you should have 3 females and 1 male platy. The reason is, livebearers, are very prolific. Therefore, you will soon have LOTS of babies. If you do not want to have the babies, change to all males or all females.

Regarding the loach, can you provide a pic?

Can anyone else help?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

the 'loach' I have found is an albino cory cat

and in reply I have a currently small red tailed shark and it is smaller than it should be, the same size as my guppies so I think it is OK

tank has been running for 2 months

yeah the shark's still gonna grow though and get too big for that tank, you should fine a more suitable home for it before it causes health problems for the fish.

cories should be kept in groups of 4+

your tank's about 16 us gallons, the generl rule for stocking is 1" of fish per gallon. so you need to aim for 16" of fish worked out on they're adult size, you currently have

5 Neon Tetras - 5"
2 Fancy Guppies - 2"
2 Male Swordtails - 6"
2 Female Swordtails - 6"
1 Red-Tailed Shark - 6"
2 Weird Small White Loaches, Albino Colour - 4"

so you have 29" of fish, that's almost twice what you should have in there.

you need get rid of the shark it's gonna get too big, if you want to keep the cories you need to get 2 more of them, if you want to keep the swordtails you need to get rid of one male or all the males/female, that still leaves you overstocked so i'd get rid of teh guppies too

that would leave you
4 cories - 8"
2 swodies - 6"
5 neon's - 5"

it's not the only option from yuor selection but it's what i'd do.