New 55 Gallon

[fall0317]

Hello there! I am very new to this aquarium world. I have a 5 gal in my office with a beta and a gold gourami in it and really enjoy it. So I decided to pick up this hobby. I am going to pick up my new 55 gal. tank and stand tomorrow and have been doing a lot of research. I have decided that after it cycles, I'm going to start a planted tank FIRST. I am going to have Java Fern, Anubius, and any other recommendations? Also going to put some drift wood and would love some recommendations for some other woods that I can put in there. I am also going to have a medium gravel substrate. I also going to avoid the fake plant route, my fish seem to be nibbling on them in my office tank. As far as fish go, I have a few favorites but not sure if they can cohabitate with each other: African dwarf frog, veiled angel fish, cherry barbs, female beta zebra danio, tiger oscar chilid.... for now. I would buy more than one of each except for the tiger oscar chilid. It will be a while before I get my plants in and even longer before I get my fish in. I do plan to set the tank up in the middle of the month and let it cycle for a while.

Any suggestions or advice for me? I'd really appreciate some.

Thanks!
Autumn

 

[kizno1]

Looks good. Gold dourami get to big for a 5G though and are in the same family as bettas so shouldnt be kept together.

African dwarf frog-Will get picked one by pretty much all the other fish and are very hard to feed in big tanks.

Angelfish-would be a great choose but will eat the barbs and danios and are risky with the betta ands likely to get bullied by the oscar.

Cherry barbs-would get eaten by the angels and oscar

Female betta-you could have a big group of them but they wont get along with the angels or oscar

Zebra danio-prefer lower temps than the other fish

Oscar-gets way to big and is very likely to kill/eat every fish in the tank.



I would go for a Cichlid setup but with smaller ones like
2 Keyhole cichlids (get 4 and wait till 2 pair then sell the other 2)
5 (1male 4females) Apistogramma theres lots of types and pretty much all will work
2 festivum cichlids or angelfish (get 4 and wait till 2 pair then sell the other 2)
15 Marble hatchets
15 Cardinal tetra

 

[waterdrop]

Agree! Drop the Oscar!

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ps. Welcome to TFF!