Stocking ideas 125l

[Iona4]

Hi, I have a new 125l juwel rio and am trying to decide what to stock. I have a fluval 3 plus internal filter and an eheim professional 2222 and a circulation pump which i can use too.

I understand the nitrogen cycle and I have attached a screen shot of my water company's water hardness details. My ph is 7.55.

I am being gifted a bristlenose pleco and would like some schooling fish like below;

Option 1 - diamond tetra and purple emperor tetra

Option 2 - neon rosy barbs and green tiger barbs

Option 3 - tiger barbs

Option 4 - odessa barbs and danios


Are there any reasons any of these options wouldn't work and could you please advise on numbers, substrate type/colour and decoration types? I will be including driftwood for the pleco.

Thanks

 

[AquaBarb]

Your have very similar taste to myself
Option 1 - diamond tetra and purple emperor tetra

Tetra's tend to prefer softer water. Not saying you cant have these, they can survive in alkaline water, but will show their best colours when the pH is below neutral. (Less than 7.0)

Option 2 - neon rosy barbs and green tiger barbs.

I have Rosy Barbs in my 220 and they maybe a tad big for a 125. They need a tank at least 100cm wide.

Option 3 - tiger barbs

These like the green tiger barbs would be fine in your 125 as a single specie tank. You can mix the normal, green, black, albino together if you wished. Should be fine with the BN pleco but can be nippy with other schooling fish.

Option 4 - odessa barbs and danios

Ive have Odessa's and Zebra dainos and these should be fine together in your 125.

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[utahfish]

Personally i like tetras, tiger barbs are kind of jerks and danios are just too busy for me, they give me ADHD just watching them where as i find tetras very calming so id say get a bunch of those!

 

[JuiceBox52]

Option one sounds great

 

[Byron]

Knowing the tank dimensions would help, as some of the fish mentioned in post #1 are fairly active swimmers which means the tank length is important. As for parameters, 9 to 10 dGH is moderately hard but quite manageable.

 

[Essjay]

The Juwel Rio 125 is 81 cm wide x 36 cm deep x 50 cm tall. Or 32 x 14 x 20 inches. I used to have one.