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My 45gal is a little understocked...it has 3 platys, 3 bronze corydoras and 10 guppies. What else can I buy? I want something colourful, but preferably a smaller shoaling fish.
Any suggestions? :D
 
I would add 2-3 more cories, since they love to be in groups. Having done that, you will stil have some space. I would add maybe 6 cardinal tetras, they are the best schooling fish in the world to me :nod:

The only thing that worries me is that although the tank is understocked now, it may be overstocked a few months down the line. This is because you have the horniest fish on the planet, guppies.

P.T.
 
Phantom Thief said:
I would add 2-3 more cories, since they love to be in groups. Having done that, you will stil have some space. I would add maybe 6 cardinal tetras, they are the best schooling fish in the world to me :nod:

The only thing that worries me is that although the tank is understocked now, it may be overstocked a few months down the line. This is because you have the horniest fish on the planet, guppies.

P.T.
:D Thanks for replying, P.T! Ok, so I'll buy 2 more cories, 6 cardinals and the guppies - well, doh! :crazy:
Actually it's ok, because I don't have much luck with fry. Only a few ever survive in each batch. One of my XL female guppies actually has a gravid spot. When I first noticed it I thought she was ill! :look:
 
maybe a school mixture of neon tetras(10 maybe)glow light(4/5)(harliquin rasboras(4),i have that mixture in my community and they all school together,looks awsome!

DD
 
Sounds cool! If I bought some cardinals as well as them though do you think they would still school together? :)
 
Yes, definitely.

I would personally drop the neons, no doubt others would drop the cardinals. I have an awful track record with neons, but an excellent one with cardinals. Others are terrible with cardinals, but great with neons.

Trial and error :)

P.T.

edit: cardinals and neons look very similar, so there isn't much point mixing the two. Also, you should be aware that many neons carry a disease, Neon Tetra Disease aka plistophora. It is no longer exclusive to them, but most of the time the disease is introduced into tanks from these guys.
 
Oh. :rolleyes:
Ok, so I won't get the tetras, ahhh don't want any diseases! :crazy:
So I'll get 6 cardinals, 5 glow light tetras and 4 harliquins. So that will work?
Hopefully I'll be able to get down to my LFS tonight... :D
 
Might be slightly overstocked, but shouldn't be a problem if you keep up with water changes :)

Also, don't get them all tonight :crazy: . You should add a few every week so that the good bacteria in the tank can catch up to the extra bioload.

HTH.

P.T.
 
Ok thanks for replying then everyone! :D

EDIT: Oh, and I thought I'd add this too, though it's something completly different. My two clown loaches have got ich. Only those two, no other fish. I raised the temp, and have been treating that tank with protozin. Last night one of my clowns - poor thing - his skin started peeling off in lumps. He must have been in agony. I don't know what happened to him. It looked really sore and he started getting these red lumps all over him. I found him dead, upside down in a plant this morning. All of his skin was hanging off of him.
:-( Poor little guy. R.I.P, Cracker! His friend, Lolly, isn't looking too good either... :byebye:
 
I reccomend Cherry barbs, they are great community fishes and shoul lightly. I just think they are REALLY purty.
 

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