Stocking

[LauraFrog]

I have it on pretty reliable advice from a few friends and the LFS that this would be suitable. Does anybody think it might not be? These would go in a large community tank. I don't have such a tank at the moment, this is just hypothetical for when I do get a tank.

Good filtration and aeration (I don't muck around when fish's lives are at stake)
Fairly bright lighting
Pea gravel (rounded) as a substrate
Natural rocks/pebbles and driftwood (I collect them. I do know how to identify pH-changing rocks and toxic driftwood. All the driftwood in my current tanks was collected by me.)

Ambulia
Green and red cabomba
Vallis
Anubias
Amazon sword
Whatever else I feel like (lol)

Peppered corydoras [Corydoras paleatus] (mixed school standard colour form and albino)
Jumbo mollies (this would be a big tank)
Guppies
Glowlight tetras
Neon tetras
? rummynose tetras
Harlequin rasboras
? zebra danios
Pair of kribs

 

[Spooky76]

Yeh you should be fine with them. Pair of Cribs can be terrotorial if they start breeding, but you just need to keep your eye on them.

Danios do like to swim around very fast, mine sometimes chase my emporers, but they should be ok.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

should be fine obviously assuming the tank is big enough!

kirbs can be a bit agressive but nothing majorly and because they're pretty much the only middle swimming fish as long as you give them some caves and places to hide in it should be absolutely fine.

also with the mollies it's better if you keep the water parametes or the hard side, all the rest of the fish can take a slightly higher than 'normal' pH

 

[LauraFrog]

Thanks! I like to keep my platies separate because I'm so fussy about the strains. I picked up another copperblack today, A grade. I could almost die from the shock. lol

I got a lot of conflicting reports about the optimum temp, pH, hardness for all of these fish but I figured that they're all pretty darn tough. I chose them also because if I can't take the fullsize tank with me to uni (which is quite likely) it can go in a cupboard somewhere and I will be able to rehome all of those fish because they are common and hardy species. My LFS and friends would take most of them.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

I got a lot of conflicting reports about the optimum temp, pH, hardness for all of these fish but I figured that they're all pretty darn tough. I chose them also because if I can't take the fullsize tank with me to uni (which is quite likely) it can go in a cupboard somewhere and I will be able to rehome all of those fish because they are common and hardy species. My LFS and friends would take most of them.

yeah you've nothing delicate really so they can take a bit of variance with pH, temp etc. I'd be looking to keep the pH at about 7.6-7.8 which is a good compromise between everyones requirements. that being said I'm a firm believer in not messing around with your pH unless it's absolutely nescessary, so unless you'rs comes out of the tap below 7 i'd probably just leave it as is!!

 

[LauraFrog]

yeah you've nothing delicate really so they can take a bit of variance with pH, temp etc. I'd be looking to keep the pH at about 7.6-7.8 which is a good compromise between everyones requirements. that being said I'm a firm believer in not messing around with your pH unless it's absolutely nescessary, so unless you'rs comes out of the tap below 7 i'd probably just leave it as is!!

7.4 - I don't mess with it because at present all I have is livebearers and a bristlenose and they don't mind medium hard, alkaline water which is what I have. I got my first real tank last year so I want to keep away from anything delicate, especially because as I said I may have to rehome all my fish except the livebearers when I move. So as frustrating as it can be I'm sticking to common, popular and easy to care for species. There's also the 'live in middle of nowhere in australia' bit which makes it kind of hard to get anything else.

I was thinking about golden barbs as well - but they're fin-nippy, so not sure with corydoras.