What Should I Stock My 28 Gallon With?

[donny7]

I currently have my 55 gallon tank cycling and have decided to go ahead and stock my 28. I don't exactly know how to do it though On one hand, I want my 55 to be a huge community tank, or an oscar tank. Obviously I cannot have an oscar in my 28, so what should I stock it with if I go do the community route? I want a picasomus right off the bat (Spell check) because I love those things.

 

[KittyKat]

..pleco, you mean? Or Hypostomus plecostomu?

Trust me on this one: you really do not want a H. plecostomu because they should have bigger tanks than either of yours.

The 28 gallon is a 3 fter? Then how about..
* 1 dwarf gourami (or a lace gourami or a three-spot gourami if being moved to the larger tank quickly and the larger tank is a 4fter)
* 15 serpae tetra or any other 5cm tetras of one species
* 1m 2f Apistogramma of one species, such as Apisto. cacatuoides or A. agassizii, or 1m 1f Laetacara dorsigera
* 1m 2f (young) bristlenoses, which you would need to move to the 55 gallon as a 3fter would be too small for 3 adult fish

You could then move all of these into the 55 gallon (3ft or 4ft?) to get this stocking:
* 1 dwarf gourami or lace gourami or any colour variant of a three-spot gourami
* 25-30 tetra of one species (30 if 4ft)
* 1m 3f Apistos (1m 4f if a 4ft) or 1m 1f Laetacara dorsigera
* 1m 1f Bolivian rams or keyholes if a 4ft
* 1m 2f (young) bristlenoses

Neither of those lists are such high stocking that you wouldn't be able to add anything else.. so leave *some* room for more.