Stocking A 20g Long Tank

[Corleone]

Dimensions are 30x12x12 inches, 20 gallon long.

It was my quarantine tank, and I've been eyeing it for a while now. I gave into temptation recently and started cycling it. I already got a new quarantine/hospital tank, and won't be making the mistake of leaving it set up so I don't end up with another permanant tank in six months.

Anyway, I'd like a pair of some type of cichlid, and might try to breed them. I'd been thinking about dwarf cichlids for some time, but after consulting the LFS, the local water is too hard and the pH too high to keep them easily.

Water conditions:

pH:7.2-7.5
gH:~150 ppm
kH:~130-150 ppm

 

[Matt_northants]

Try N. Brichardi, they're really easy to breed.

 

[LosC519]

I keep healthy German Blue Rams with a pH of 7.4. You could go with german blue rams, bolivian rams, gold rams, apistogramma cacatuoides, apistogramma boreli, apistogramma viejita. A pair of either.

 

[Corleone]

Did a bit of homework on the suggestions - Brichardi sound interesting, though a bit too easy to breed. The LFS that carries them emphatically told me they wouldn't buy offspring because "We can't stop them from as it is."

They did suggest kribs, but I wanted more reliable advice. Would they be ok in my water, and is the tank too small?

 

[Matt_northants]

Did a bit of homework on the suggestions - Brichardi sound interesting, though a bit too easy to breed. The LFS that carries them emphatically told me they wouldn't buy offspring because "We can't stop them from as it is."

They did suggest kribs, but I wanted more reliable advice. Would they be ok in my water, and is the tank too small?

How about a pair of some other small Tanganyikan cichlids?

 

[@ombomb]

i always fancied keeping some shell dwellers, they'd work well in a tank that size

so would a nano reef though