Stocking List For New 60g Setup! Woot Woot!

[greenmumma141]

Picking up my new 60 Gallon (4ft) this weekend guys!!!

I plan to do a fishless cycle with mature media (sponge + ceramic rings), but I just wanted to get some input on my stocking ideas. Most of the room will be taken up by the fish I already have, they all have to move to the new tank, as Im breaking down my old tank. Here is what I have:

4 Tiger barbs
2 green barbs
1 pictus
1 angel
8 cories
1 sailfin pleco
1 rubberlip pleco


This is what I'm thinking:

A couple more barbs of each (tiger and green)
12 more cories
rehoming the sailfin (he's growing very fast and I don't want to put him in a huge tank, just to bring him to the LFS in a couple months, it's sad)
rehoming the rubberlip as he tends to bulldoze over my cories
1-2 BN plecs, albino maybe?
either adding another angel or maybe rehoming them, and trying 2 gouramis or rams or something. (never kept these kind of fish before but I really love the way they look and I find them very neat....)
4 polka dot loaches (ive been researching them for a while now, but never had the room in my 30G vertical) would they be a prob with my pictus though???

I realize that maybe not all of this is possible but these are all the ideas Im tossing around. What does everyone think?? Any input/advice is welcome and appreciated!!!!!!!!

Oh, and the tank will be planted with a play sand substrate.

2 Aquaclear 70 filters giving me 600gph (10x) turnover.

 

[matt_storey]

Id put a single Betta in there.....

 

[greenmumma141]

I can't put a single betta. I have all my fish already and they have to go in there. That's for the comment though

 

[Shelster]

Ha ha, matts comment made me almost spit out my ovaltine!!!

I inherited 2x polka dot loaches and they are great fun! Sorry, can't really advise on the others, but Gouramis are my favourite! have fun in the fish store

 

[greenmumma141]

Ha ha, matts comment made me almost spit out my ovaltine!!!

I inherited 2x polka dot loaches and they are great fun! Sorry, can't really advise on the others, but Gouramis are my favourite!

have fun in the fish store

I laughed too lol. Yeah, I really hope I can fit the polka dots in, Ive wanted them for quite some time now! was this the right forum to put my stocking list into or should i go to the new tank section? hmm...

 

[Shelster]

New tank sec would prob be more noticed there.

Have you picked up your tank yet? Or tomorrow?

 

[FishLover4+1]

I'd put in another angelfish, I've heard they're sociable.

 

[greenmumma141]

New tank sec would prob be more noticed there.

Have you picked up your tank yet? Or tomorrow?

Moved it to new tank sec. it worked I picked it up today

and it's huge and fabulous!! so excited. Tomorrow I wash sand and work out the landscape which will take probably all day

I'd put in another angelfish, I've heard they're sociable.

I plan to add another, I just lost my two lovely black angels a couple months ago and just haven't had the heart to even look at adding more, but i think it's time.

Starting a journal in the planted section too with lots of pics!! Thanks for the help/input!