New Tank Advice

[Nick4881]

Hey Guys...

ive just set up a 35 gallon tank... it has a sand base and is planted along its back wall... i am looking to set up a community tank but am used to terratorial types...
Could anybody suggest a list of Fish with communal tendancies, with perhaps a few safe odd balls thrown in... Looking for a mix from ground feeders to high swimmers... tank is aimed at presentation....

Thanks for any help...

Nick

 

[guppys]

this probably doesnt match the stuff you want but.......... i have a 30 gallon tank it has 11 guppies in and 7 neons, and all the colours everywhere its beuatiful hits the presentation mark.

 

[IMCL85]

bottom lvl some yoyo loaches/zebra loaches/cory either one is ok, they all like to be in group of 3+ so decide which one you want and go for it.

mid lvl I like tetra they r very very beautiful specially cardinal they beat neon long run. I would say 15-20 mix with some other tetra group fish and that would be great.

top lvl I really think that sword tail like a few female with 1x male would make ur tank very very good.

Good luck

 

[Ami]

Nick

I've turned into a real gourami and cherry barb convert so I would reccommend them - but not with the ghost knife or the clown loach you've got!

The gourami's are beautiful and entertaining though.

mid lvl I like tetra they r very very beautiful specially cardinal they beat neon long run. I would say 15-20 mix with some other tetra group fish and that would be great

Cardinals do get a little bigger than the neons and don't look that much different. Neons shoal a little looser and would definitely get eaten by your existing stock though.

Ami

 

[Opcn]

I'dsay a school of 10 dwarf corries, a school of 6 of a smaller species of hatchet (blackwater hatchets maybe) and then maybe a grop of endlers, they look good dodging in and out of foliage.

 

[Nick4881]

Thanks Guys, loads of Info there for me to mull over, decisions decisions!!! cant wait to set the tank up.. "Kid at christmas time again"
Thanks again, keep that info coming...
Nick

 

[modernhamlet]

To try to understand what you're shooting for...

A non-standard community tank with balanced color, activity, and layering.

How about this:
West African Community tank
1 pair Kribensis
1 Pantodon buchholzi (African Butterfly fish)
8 Congo tetra
6 Synodontis nigriventris (Upside down catfish)

Add a few rocky caves and a nice piece of driftwood and you'll have a heck of a tank, IMO...

Hope that helps!


edit: copy/paste error on the syno... as Undawada states: nigriventris is generally the way to go, and what you'll see most often available.

 

[Undawada]

if you go that route, make sure that your upside down catfish are Synodontis nigriventris or S. contractus not S. batensoda. S. batensoda get to be very very large, the others stay at around 4 or 5".