Suggested Species?

[fathippo]

I have a living world tropiquariam-retro i know!
its about 50x20x30 cm

what kinds of fish would you recommend and how many?

I am relatively new to fish keeping.

thanks!

 

[teddybear]

i was woching a vido of how to made by a fish shop and they sed work out the galen of your tank and its 2in of fish to each galon of tank

 

[SBL]

Gotta say that that rule is not a good rule to go by. Some fish are massive waste producers, some fish require more room to swim. Some fish are aggressive. Also, if that rule was true, he could keep a 14 inch Oscar in such aquarium, since it's 7 USG. Would that be fair to the fish? No, so please, don't follow all the tips your LFS gives you. Some are insane but, some are great. Best to go over tips and rules like that on a forum.

Now, that that has been handled. Not trying to be mean BTW. But, you could throw in a black divider and put in 2 males Bettas. Or, you could add a school of 6 neons and a pair of Badis to. Note: Badis are hard to find in my experience.

 

[waterdrop]

This is right. Size rules for stocking have generated huge discussions for years on TFF. In the end the beginner section always comes back to trying to state that these things are *guidelines,* not rules and that there are exceptions galore! Overall though, the one inch of fishbody (fins don't count) for medium small fish per US gallon for beginners for the first year with normal filtration is a good starting point in setting overall stocking limitations in your stocking plan.

For serious hobbyists, a stocking plan is a "big deal" and many take months refining it before turning to the final stage of seeking the actual fish or stocking them in the tank. Some of the obvious stages one goes through in working out a plan are to maintain lists and notes from visits to local stores or other sources, to work on understanding the "one inch guideline" for overall stocking, to work on understanding the volume and shape special needs of individual species, to work on understanding the water chemistry needs of individual species, to work on understanding the minimum shoaling needs of individual species and to work on understanding the individual species to species interaction problems between each of the desired species in a given stocking plan.

Working your way through these different problems can easily take up the two months average fishless cycling time for a new beginner tank and is of course one of the prime activities to be doing during that time.

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