Stocking My Fluval Vicenza 180

[scottca]

Hi All,

Got my Fluval Vicenza (Quite well planted) ready for stocking, I was thinking about the following:

5x Pentazona Barb
5x Red Phantom Tetra
5x Black Phatnom Tetra (was told these would shoal with the red ones)
10 - 15 Neon Tetra
3 - 4 Peppered Corys
2x Bristlenose Plecs

The tank is fairly well planted and im using the Fluval 205 External that came with the tank. How does the list above look? Would I have anymore space, maybe for a couple of Kribensis ?

Cheers,

Craig

 

[GuppyDude]

Im not sure how big your tank is, but im going to assume that the 180 is liters, which roughly converts to 45 gallons.

I would get rid of the barbs and 1 pleco, make a group of 4 corys, and the neons a group of 10.

The barbs can be nippy, and since your keeping smaller tetra fish in there with them, they could be prone to some nasty bite wounds. And i say remove a pleco because they can make a mess, and for the sake of cleanliness (and not having your corys wade through pleco poo) I think it'll be much less work for yourself if there were only 1 messy fish. But thats up to you.

What are the dimensions of your tank?