Stocking my 38 Gallon

[dirtydogg]

So my ram fry didn't make it . So I'm looking to fully stock the 38 gallon that they are in. This is my living room tank and is the first thing you see when you come throught the door to my house, so I want it to be colorful and active, so here is what I've come up with.

2-German Blue Rams
3-Angelfish
5-Panda Corydoras
and here is the question mark
6-Rummynose tetra

I here they can be quite hard to keep if the conditions aren't ideal so here are the conditions.

38 Gallon tank, moderately planted, working on heavily planted. several caves and hiding places, fake driftwood "actually looks really realistic though", black sand substrate. filtered with a Rena XP1 canister filter, PH stays around 6.6-6.8, somewhere in between there as best I can tell. tank is cycled, 0-nitrites 0-ammonia. bi-weekly 10% water changes.

I have read that cardinals can become angel food, so I kind of put that out of my mind. But I'm wondering if I get the cardinals first and get the angels about a week later as young juvies if that'll make any difference.

any feedback is appreciated.

 

[keeper-of-fish]

If you purchased the angels as juvies I dont think you would have to worry about them (the cardinals/rummy-nose) getting eaten for quite some time. They dont grow that quick mabe try a larger tetra I have blackwidows with mine.
Also that set up sounds like it will be stunning is your tank of the long or tall variation?

 

[dirtydogg]

the tank is the tall type. I've thought about some of the larger tetra, but I want something with a lot of color and my lfs don't have anything else with the type of color I want.

 

[Griz]

I think that eventually the cardinals would become angelfood, but that could be a very long time. Cardinals or Rummynose would add to the interest of tank while the angels are small. Eventually the angels will get big enough to be the focus of the tank but will also begin to see the Cardinals as food. When nature begins to take it's course you can always rehouse them.

I think you could go with a few more though, maybe 8?