stocking

[bettaboi]

i found this suggestion online and it sounds good but way over stocked for a 20 gal just want to know will this work

7 guppies
6 neons tetras
6 albino dianos
6 penguin fish
4 black neons
2 emerald cory
2 peppered cory
2 sucking loaches
1 red plecostomus
1 albino cory
1 bronze cory
1 upside down cat
1 swortail female

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Nope, way too overstocked im sorry . One simple rule to go by is the one inch per gal rule- basically you can only have one inch of fish per gal and thats when the fish has reached its max size; of course there's a lot more to consider when it comes to stocking a tank but this rule of thumb is handy to help give you an idea of how much fish your tank can handle, so its a start at least when you first start researching fish for your tank stocking and whats genurenly available to you.

 

[bettaboi]

7 guppies
6 neons tetras
4 black neons
2 emerald cory
2 sucking loaches
1 red plecostomus
1 albino cory
1 bronze cory

does this look any better

 

[bunjiweb]

Take away the sucking loaches and the pleco and that would be fine with regular maintanence. If you want something for algae control get shrimp or otos.

Ben

 

[bettaboi]

thanks you guys i love these forums i would have a real messed up tank w/o it

 

[bettaboi]

7 guppies
6 neons tetras
4 black neons
4 fancy guppies
1 swordtail

does this sound better and does ne 1 no any thing about red tailed sharks and if i could have one or are they too aggerssive if its a size thing i could give up a few fish for ir thanks for your help guys

 

[wrs]

why not all the same color neons, and get some bottem dwellers? like keeping the corries.

btw, what site did you find that on?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Instead of just getting 7 standard guppys and 4 fancy ones, i'd go for just 8 guppys max as they'll breed alot and before you know you'll have fry- 11 guppys is alot for a 20gal alone with the other fish.
With guppys its best to have at least 3females per male in groups which have more than 1male i.e 2males 6females, this will help no one female get too harrassed by the males and still help get rid of too much confrountation between the males .

 

[bettaboi]

http/badmanstropicalfish.com/community/community1.html

thats the website ive seen some very bad mixs on there so i dont think ill be useing that site much

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

"Please understand that these are examples of what some of the readers are keeping and by no means represent ideal or optimum stocking levels. Badman's does not agree or disagree with them and post them here for informational purposes."
-that would probably explain why they are so bad

There's a fish profile section on this forum if you need somwhere close at hand to research fish

 

[wrs]

It would be nice if this site had a stocking suggestion area.

 

[bettaboi]

yes it would i almost didnt want to put the site up in case someone actually used it i looked at more and saw about 10 good ones

 

[dwarfgourami]

If I were to go with your adjusted and narrowed down list (as there were clearly too many fish in the first one), I would keep the cories but make them all of one kind, i.e. dump the emeralds and keep either peppereds or bronze or albinos (though you should be able to mix the latter two as they are colour morphs). If you go for cories, not less than 3, but preferably 4 or 5. They need to school with their own kind. They won't beat the hell out of another species, but they will feel happier with their own. And they are great fun when they play together. Though you may find early morning or evening is the best time to watch them; mine seem to be turning very crepuscular.

Also, I would keep one type of neon only (blacks and neons are not the same kind) and then the guppies. Guppies are not schooling fish in the same sense though they do seem to enjoy interacting with each other- and they are great little fish.

I would cycle fishless, with household ammonia, then add guppies and cories, but wait a few months with the neons, as suggested above.

On the whole, I think a tank with a few good-sized schools would be more visually attractive than a bit of this and a bit of that. Also, both neons and cories need schools to feel safe, a pair isn't really going to do that.

The thing about the sharks is they are very aggressive towards their own species or anything that looks like their own species. Not sure how they would be with a red-tailed fancy guppy. To be perfectly honest, this is hearsay only on my part; sharks didn't seem to be around when I last kept fish, so have no experience of my own; have just heard an awful lot of stories. Someone can fill you in on this no doubt.