Suggestions For Large Solitary Commuinity Fish.

[matt_99]

Hi all, please could you advise based on the following?

Tank is 48x16x15
Water stats are: 23-25 degrees, Amm 0, Nitrite 0, nitrate 0-10 GH 7-14, KH 3, Ph 6,8-7,2. Like this for two weeks with one 20% water change.

Tankmates so far are:

6 longfin zebra danios
8 rummy nose tetra
6 peppered cory
Have bogwood, two 100l/hr filters two heaters and good range 3 foot flourescent tueb that goes on for 5 hours in the evening, natural light for the rest of the day.

Right, we intend to get one clown pleco and 8 -12 platy's today.

However, we wnt to have either one, or a pair of large (4"-6") solitary slow moving fish... like the oscars look. But obviously needs to get on with our current stock!

Any suggestions or advise appreciated!

Matt

 

[james_fish]

They don't grow huge but they are a really cool solitary fish that will do fantastic in a tank that size. You can only have 1 in a tank though.
Red-tailed Black Shark or a Rainbow Shark

Also, I wouldn't recommend putting all those Platys and a Clown loach in today. Might be a huge load on the filter and may take time for it to catch up, unless you did a fishless cycle and is capable of this load?

James

 

[Twinklecaz]

I don't know if they can definitely mix with those other fish but maybe a pair of Angels? Or maybe 2-3 Gouramis.

 

[walkers101]

a pair of angels will be fine with that list

 

[Twinklecaz]

They're very slow and graceful like you want. I'd have some if I could!

 

[Jonty]

Did I read that right? 2 100lph filters? Thats 200lph in a 200l tank. You need 5-10x turnover, so 1000 - 2000 lph

 

[Assaye]

I'm also worried about your filters =/

I also wouldn't advise adding so many fish at once - maybe halve the number of platies and get the rest in a week or so. It might be OK but you're risking an ammonia spike.

Large fish - sharks are great (red tailed or rainbow) but can hide quite a lot. Angels are awesome but might eat small fish if you get adults. Those fish can all get to 6-8" and you want smaller fish? Erm. Gouramis - not sure what species would be best. One of my male kribensis is about 4 inches and stunning - very active as well. Maybe a pair of kribensis, if you want to try your hand at breeding?

 

[matt_99]

thanks all, we settled on 3 mickey mouse platys and 3 red wag platys.

Sorry, i meant 100 gallon per hour.

We saw the gourami's, looked nice, been warned about the size of angels? Got a long list of things we've seen so got lots to look up and read about!

Thanks all.

 

[meguro]

festivum cichlids (mesonauta spp.)

15 or 16 inches isnt really tall enough for angelfish

 

[Assaye]

festivum cichlids (mesonauta spp.)

15 or 16 inches isnt really tall enough for angelfish

Totally missed the height of the tank - duh!

Yeah, angels will get too tall for your tank, OP.

 

[matt_99]

ok, ta...

will get some pisc up later of what i have so you can all advise a bit easier!

 

[ellena]

Gouramis would be lovely, I like the moonlight ones

 

[Wills]

If you like the oscar look how about some kind of smaller cichlid, a blue acara would do quite well with that stock. I would second Meguros idea of festivums some beutiful species available now with all kinds of colour sheens to them, when the light catches them they get the most fantastic colours on their sides you get pretty much any colour depending on species and where they are from, all colours from blue, purple, red, orange, green. Really nice fish

 

[BethK]

Would a miniature Angel Fish, still be too big for that tank?

 

[Wills]

Would a miniature Angel Fish, still be too big for that tank?

...... they dont exist?