What Fish To Get Next?

[grimey121uk]

Hi
just wondering what is the best option for my next set of fish, i have a 120 litre tank that has been set up for just over a year now
i have
1x golden sucking loach
3x Blind cave fish
2x Fishnet flying foxes
3x Glowlight Danio
4x cardinal tetra
6x Tiger glowlight Danio
5x white cloud mountain minnow
2x gold Zebra Danio
4x leopard Danio
6x Phantom tetra
2x yoyo loaches
2x skunk catfish
3x peppered catfish
thanx nat

 

[discus_lover]

you may choose angel,blue rams...

 

[jacko32]

so your tanks around 27uk gallons to be honest i wouldnt consider putting anymore fish in there i would think that your tank is fully stocked if not even overstocked

 

[grimey121uk]

you may choose angel,blue rams...

i have read up about angel and blue rams and they require a ph of between 5.5 and 6.5. the tank ph reading i did yesturday is showing my tank to be nearer 7

 

[Assaye]

Hi
just wondering what is the best option for my next set of fish, i have a 120 litre tank that has been set up for just over a year now
i have
1x golden sucking loach
3x Blind cave fish
2x Fishnet flying foxes
3x Glowlight Danio
4x cardinal tetra
6x Tiger glowlight Danio
5x white cloud mountain minnow
2x gold Zebra Danio
4x leopard Danio
6x Phantom tetra
2x yoyo loaches
2x skunk catfish
3x peppered catfish
thanx nat

To be honest, you're very heavily stocked at the moment. I'd say you are well overstocked.

You also need to consider that not all of those fish want to be kept at the same temperature and you've got a lot of shoaling fish in groups that are too small.

The flying foxes and sucking loach are also going to get rather large and will need at least a 4 foot tank when they're grown up. They get pretty aggressive as well.

Until you move some stock on or get a much bigger tank, you'd be mad to add more fish.

 

[discus_lover]

but angel and blue rams can survive even the ph of 7..

 

[Curiosity101]

Yes angels and german blue rams will be fine at pH 7. But that doesn't ditract from the fact that the tank is probably overstocked/not very suitably stocked for it's current inhabitants.

What are you water stats right at the very second grimey121uk?
We need - Temp, pH, Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate.
I would also like to know what filter you have running and what your weekly water change schedule is.

Please answer the above question fully. Often people go 'oh they're all fine' and refuse to actually give us values which means we can't give the correct advice for the specific tank.

 

[Assaye]

but angel and blue rams can survive even the ph of 7..

Blue rams need temps around 28-30 C. Danios, peppered corys and white clouds would really, really suffer that these temps.

Yet another reason not to mix and match fish.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi grimey121uk

I think you are pretty well stocked too. When you want to increase your stocking, why not consider increasing the size of your corydoras schools. They do better in larger numbers.

Assaye is right about the temperatures. Both C. arcuatus (skunk corys) and C. paleatus (peppered corys) require lower temperatures than rams. It's an important factor in their life expectancy. Rams aren't the best fish to keep with corys anyway. They tend to be too aggressive.

 

[grimey121uk]

Yes angels and german blue rams will be fine at pH 7. But that doesn't ditract from the fact that the tank is probably overstocked/not very suitably stocked for it's current inhabitants.

What are you water stats right at the very second grimey121uk?
We need - Temp, pH, Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate.
I would also like to know what filter you have running and what your weekly water change schedule is.

Please answer the above question fully. Often people go 'oh they're all fine' and refuse to actually give us values which means we can't give the correct advice for the specific tank.

Temp is 26
PH is 7
Ammonia is at 0 (yellow)
Nitrate test 0 was blue
and i dont have a nitrite test kit

i have a fluval u3 filter and do at least a 25% water change every week

 

[grimey121uk]

i have been told that danios can adapt to the change in temperature and that mixing the types of danio dosent matter as they will intergrate together, the tetras are a calmer fish and also stick with the danios. i have been told the blind cave fish can get aggreessive when older and if this happens the local fish shop will take them back but i have had them 8 months and there is no sign as yet. the local fish shop sells me them in groups of 6 as that is the shoaling amount and that all the danios will stick together.