Need Help With My Stocking Please :d

[crago1990]

Hey, i have re-done my tank and re-homed my old fish to my other tank. I planted it up and today i went to my LFS. I want a comuntiy tank after my last fish were agressive fish. The only fish in there before today is my BN plec who is staying. Today i started my comuntiy by buying cherry barbs. I brought 6. 4 females and 2 males. settling in very nice were very timid at first but now roaming the tank. Tank looks very empty with only 6 little fish in. As the cherry barbs are not very old i would imagin! because there tiny! anyway i want to add more soon once its settled down. Any ideas what i can add to make a brillaint comunity tank? i dont like gouramis so not them. Wanted neons but dont like the sound of neon tetra disease. Thinking different types of tetras. my tank is a 95L and im planning to get a fluval 205 when i get paid for it so i guess i can over stock it a little because will be heavily filterd? some suggestion would be great


thats what i posted on the 5th and no luck in anyone answering so tried again lol

 

[term_22000]

Have you looked into Thread Finned Rainbow fish? A good group of them is fun to watch and they look great. The only problem I have seen with them is if the food is not small enough then they can't eat it cause they have very tiny mouths but other than that they are very hardy fish. Or what about some Sword tailed fish? If the barbs aren't aggressive then those would go great in there too

 

[crago1990]

cheers for the reply i was looking at sword tails today but instead i went with lemon tetras

 

[waterdrop]

Lemons definately fall into the typical tetra shoaling recommendation that you should never keep a group less than 6 or the largest ones will either pick on other members of the community or other smaller lemons.. but 6 or more and they should be relaxed and more fully occupied within their own group. You should be able to observe that they stick to their group a good deal more than the Cherries, who will roam about individually a lot more than the lemons in my experience.

Your 25 US gallons should allow you to consider stocking roughly about 25 inches of adult medium body shape length. Just search here on TFF and perhaps a few other sites for the expected adult length, note that and then multiply the number of fish you have/expect, to be aware of this aspect of the stocking (ie. the limitation to your overall stocking by the volume of water your tank has.) If you are a beginner (we don't know this but tend to assume it in this subforum of course) then it's highly recommended not to exceed this rough stocking rule the first year or two (this way you hopefully have a good experience and get the feel for what the baseline of a well-run tank feels like before adventuring into the overstocking territory, where things can begin to go wrong a lot more quickly.)

It sounds like you may have room for maybe one more shoal, but you'd have to run the numbers to see how that went.

Of course there are so many more things besides water volume stocking limits. There's the between species considerations (Lemons, Cherries and BNs should be fine together and with most other tetras (Serpae would be about the only tetras significantly more aggressive than lemons and most others would be less.) There's the hardness preference, but all these would be pretty happy in the softer water that tetras like and all these fish fall into being typical tropicals in the trade that will do ok with stability despite what the hardness and pH numbers are. There's tank shape and none of these need anything unusual in this regard. Both Cherries and Lemons look especially good with pretty heavy natural planting, so that's something to think about.

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[BIG BAD BARRY]

Have you thought about rummy-nose tetra?

http/www.seriouslyfish.com/kb.php?t=ps&s=Rummy-nose+tetra

I have 6 and they are fantastic shoalers!

They were sold as rummy-nose tetras but may be the false rummy nose or firehead tetra. I dont care as they are great!

 

[crago1990]

i brought 5 lemon tetras in the end. and after i read alot about them i soon have relised that i should of brought more then 5 really. so what i intend to do is buy 5 more of the lemon tetras to make them more happier. i was also going to rise the count of the cherry barbs because they are one of my fav fish but im reconsidering and thinking about the rummy nose tetra they doo look really awsome! 95l and soon fluval 205 stocking 1 bn plec, 6 cherry barbs, 10 lemon tetras and 6 rummy nose tetra sound good or will that be over stocking it? cheers for the help

 

[waterdrop]

I think rummys get to be about 2 inches (something like that, can't really remember) so you will want to do your arithmetic, especially if you are increasing the others.

Rummys are really nice fish, very tight shoalers and really nice looking.

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[OldMan47]

I have seen lemon tetras in groups of 10+ at a fellow club member's home and they are delightful fish Crago. The rummy nose that WD talks about are also nice fish and a reputed to be among the few that truly shoal well together. I am going to go where you simply have not addressed. I am a livebearer specialist and find tat I can pace almost any common livebearer in a tank that is the size of yours. Most of my own tank space is devoted to single species tanks of livebearers, but a tank your size could easily house any one of the common livebearers, along with an assortment of other fish.

 

[crago1990]

I have seen lemon tetras in groups of 10+ at a fellow club member's home and they are delightful fish Crago. The rummy nose that WD talks about are also nice fish and a reputed to be among the few that truly shoal well together. I am going to go where you simply have not addressed. I am a livebearer specialist and find tat I can pace almost any common livebearer in a tank that is the size of yours. Most of my own tank space is devoted to single species tanks of livebearers, but a tank your size could easily house any one of the common livebearers, along with an assortment of other fish.

group of 10+ bet they look awsome! Ill def be buying some more to add to the 5 ive got. When they shoal around my tank they stand out so much. Wen they were at the shop they didnt have the most colour in them but now the yellow on them reall stands out! Ive had guppys before they were my first tropical fish and as u expect they keept breeding and in the end i rehomed them to my parents. Ive been thinking about rummy nose they do look really good bit expensive though. But i have also been thinking some some swordtails. I believe they mainly stay at the top of the tank if im correct? My BN stays at the bottom and my tetras and barbs stay mid leval so would be good to have something at the top end!