Hi all,
I've finally got to the stage where my fishless cycle is complete and the bacteria are clearing 3 ppm of ammonia within 24 hours and its time to finally put some fish in. My tanks a Fluval Roma 240 with a Fluval 305 external filter. I'm going with a peaceful community tank of fairly small fish and am looking at getting the following:
1 Bristlenose Pleco
5 Otocinclus
5 Sterbai Cory
10 Neon/Cardinal Tetra's
3 Dalmation Mollies
I would also like to add a pair of 'showpiece' fish later on. At the moment I'm thinking Dwarf Gouramis or maybe a pair of Rams once the tank has matured.
The tanks got a couple of large pieces of bogwood with about 6 or 7 plants including echinodorus, amazon swords, java fern etc. and has a pea gravel substrate with a sand section in the middle for the corys. Ph is 7.5.
Firstly will these fish be ok with each other? I'm looking for the pleco and oto's to do a good cleaning job as the tank has a lot of brown algae/diatoms after the fishless cycle. The tetras and mollies are the kids/wife's request and the rest are mine!!
Secondly would this be too many fish for a tank of this size? There's approximately 190-200 litres of water in the 240 litre tank. I've read numerous different stocking guides and these seem to suggest massively different stocking levels.
Finally, if this stocking is OK for the tank would it be OK to add them all at once? I'm assuming it will be as being able to stock the tank in one go is one of the advantages of fishless cycling as I understand it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I've finally got to the stage where my fishless cycle is complete and the bacteria are clearing 3 ppm of ammonia within 24 hours and its time to finally put some fish in. My tanks a Fluval Roma 240 with a Fluval 305 external filter. I'm going with a peaceful community tank of fairly small fish and am looking at getting the following:
1 Bristlenose Pleco
5 Otocinclus
5 Sterbai Cory
10 Neon/Cardinal Tetra's
3 Dalmation Mollies
I would also like to add a pair of 'showpiece' fish later on. At the moment I'm thinking Dwarf Gouramis or maybe a pair of Rams once the tank has matured.
The tanks got a couple of large pieces of bogwood with about 6 or 7 plants including echinodorus, amazon swords, java fern etc. and has a pea gravel substrate with a sand section in the middle for the corys. Ph is 7.5.
Firstly will these fish be ok with each other? I'm looking for the pleco and oto's to do a good cleaning job as the tank has a lot of brown algae/diatoms after the fishless cycle. The tetras and mollies are the kids/wife's request and the rest are mine!!
Secondly would this be too many fish for a tank of this size? There's approximately 190-200 litres of water in the 240 litre tank. I've read numerous different stocking guides and these seem to suggest massively different stocking levels.
Finally, if this stocking is OK for the tank would it be OK to add them all at once? I'm assuming it will be as being able to stock the tank in one go is one of the advantages of fishless cycling as I understand it.
Any advice would be appreciated.