Stocking Idea's For My 200 Litre Tank

[DKS1982]

I am a tropical fish keeper virgin!! And i need some help with stocking idea's? Its 200 litres, 100cm long by 55cm wide and 50cm high. I have done a 4 week cycle with 8 Zebra Danios and everything seems great. I added 7 Cardinal Tetras and 4 Dwarf Suckermouth Catfish last weekend and they are all getting on fine. I am looking for ideas on how to stock the rest of the tank?

I was thinking of adding
Another 3 Cardinal Tetras taking them upto 10 in total
3 Dwarf Gouramis
2 Kribs
1 Bristlenose Plec
and another schooling fish of about 6-10

Any advice or opinons would be great!

Regards,
Darren

 

[kizno1]

I wouldnt go for kribs because they might be a bit nippy with the ottos and tetra if they breed. If it was me instead of Gourami i would go for angelfish or festivum cichlids.
I would stick to South American fish and go for
20 Cardinal tetra
4 Ottos
2 BNs (1m 2f)
4 Angelfish or festivum cichlids
4 Biotodoma wavrini or Geophagus iporangensis or Keyhole cichlids
1 Whiptail or Banjo catfish
10 Marble Hatchets

 

[DKS1982]

Thanks for the reply.

Thats given me some things to think about!! Lol!!

I wanted a couple of centerpeice fish, like the kribs or gourami's. #33###, theres so much choice!!
I will defo increase the number of Cardinal Tetras i have and get another speices of schooling fish (10 ish) and get a BN Plec. Just cant decide what would work best as my show off fish.

 

[kizno1]

The angelfish and festivum cichlids get 6" so would make nice centre piece fish and they use the middle and surface of the tank so would be a good alternative to the gourami. Like Kribs the Biotodoma wavrini or Geophagus iporangensis will stay nearer the bottom of the tank. Instead of another type of shoaling fish like tetra i would go for Marble hatchets that stay near the surface. Then you have wish in all different sections of the tank

For the bottom you would have
2 BNs
4 Ottos
4 Biotodoma wavrini or Geophagus iporangensis or Keyhole cichlids
1 Whiptail or Banjo catfish

for the middle
20 Cardinal tetra
4 Angelfish or Festivum cichlids

And for the surface
20 Marble hatchets

The Geophagus iporangensis would be my choose because there such stunning fish. They need to be in groups of 4 or more. With 4 theres a good chance you could get some fry. Theres some good info on them here
http/www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Geophagus&species=iporangensis&id=743