What Could I Put In My 29 Gallon

[FishCrazyMan]

I have a 29 gallon tank with some fish in it and I want to know what else I can put in there.

I have:
1 Female Moonlight Gourami
1 Male Snakeskin Gourami
1 Male Albino Blood red High Fin Lyre tail Swordtail
2 Male Cherry Barbs
1 Unsexed Furcata Rainbow (soon to get more)
1 Unsexed Peppered Cory

I am going to pick up a few sterbai cories later in the week

What do you guys suggest?

 

[waterdrop]

I'm not great at it but you look to have maybe roughly 18 inches out of your 25 inches of fish body used up, so perhaps another 7 or 8 inches of stock to go assuming you are stocking for the first year of the tank and want to stay within the one inch per US gallon beginner guidelines. I'd say just filling out the cories and rainbows to reasonable minimum shoaling levels is going to quickly put you at the limit.

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[FishCrazyMan]

By the way I dont know what difference it has but I have fake plants and 1 live hornwort plant. I also have 1 air stone and 1 huge air thingy thats kinda like a disk. I also have a big filter for my tank. It's a whisper 40, they love the huge current it makes.
It also has bogwood. It also has a live clam that is very small and red. I got it from the lake and I put it in my mom's very dirty aquarium cleaned the water good. She has hardy fish. Then I put it in with my friend's 7 Chocolate Gouramis and his 119 fry to see if they contract diseases. Nothin happened after 7 days so I put it in my tank and cleared up most of my algae and bacterial bloom.

 

[waterdrop]

Hi there fishcrazyman, one of the things we always like to ask our newcomers is what method they used to "cycle" their tank. If its something you did it will make sense to you, if it doesn't make sense then we'll need to alter the ways in which we provide help to you.

A filter from the store is just basically the hardware of a "kit" and you have to have happened on to some "hobbyist knowledge" to apply a process we call "cycling" to the filter in order to prepare it for fish. It generally takes a month or two of work to do this and often the pet shops will not have quite described it this way.

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[FishCrazyMan]

Hi there fishcrazyman, one of the things we always like to ask our newcomers is what method they used to "cycle" their tank. If its something you did it will make sense to you, if it doesn't make sense then we'll need to alter the ways in which we provide help to you.

A filter from the store is just basically the hardware of a "kit" and you have to have happened on to some "hobbyist knowledge" to apply a process we call "cycling" to the filter in order to prepare it for fish. It generally takes a month or two of work to do this and often the pet shops will not have quite described it this way.

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I cycled it with pure ammonia, then with beneficial bacterial supplements, live bacteria and "seeding", then with 2 cherry barbs to do a fish cycle, then a very late nitrite spike occurred so I removed the barbs until the nitrite naturally went away after one water change (which took 1 month), then I added 1 fish per week until now when I added my 2 gouramis. This process is unnecessary but I love to do it and it took 6 1/2 months to this day.

 

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Ah, I'm talkin to an experience man then .. just had to ask for completeness!

I'm sure there will be other members along, hopefully tomorrow, who will be good with other stocking suggestions. Not sure how a Moonlight and a Snakeskin will get along together, have never had that combo, will be interested to hear!

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[FishCrazyMan]

Ah, I'm talkin to an experience man then .. just had to ask for completeness!

I'm sure there will be other members along, hopefully tomorrow, who will be good with other stocking suggestions. Not sure how a Moonlight and a Snakeskin will get along together, have never had that combo, will be interested to hear!

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well they are a bit fussy they are more of rivals than anything. They nudge each other then swim away like tag, but nothing to physical. They have chased each other but it's like watching a Turtle chase a slug. But a bit faster. I know a bit becuase my mom and dad own a 5,000 gallon tank. By the way I'm only 13 years old.