What Species Should I Choose For My 6 Foot Tank? =/

[tyedyefishy]

I have a 125 gallon aquarium. Its 6 feet by 18inches. 473L.
I have..
10 Angelicus Botia (my loaches )
1 male blue gourami
1 female gold gourami
1 female opaline gourami
1 bristlenose pleco

I still have quite a bit of room to play with... I was kinda thinking of doing a tank with a school of blue gourami and the color variations after seeing a few youtube videos of large tanks with a lot of gourami. Is this a bad idea even if I only keep one male?? And if its not going to be a territory problem... how many of the same species can I keep based on my stock and tank size? Or maybe more gourami's is a bad idea and I should think about different species???

Can't find much on this anywhere on the internet for some reason =/. Any suggestions would be awesome

 

[ZoddyZod]

is the blue gourami you refer to also called the three spot or the dwarf gourami?

blue gourami is not a common name I'm familiar with.

 

[MBOU]

Blue Gourami is generally what we know as Opaline gourami (same species as the gold gourami etc).

To be honest, so long as you only have one male, i dont see why adding afew more females wouldnt hurt, be it the blues or golds another 2-3 max though, you want to give thm space.

I think a nie big shoal of something that schools or at least shoals tightly... a group of 30 or 40...

Harlequins
Copper Harlequins
Emerald Eye Rasbora
Rummynose Tetra
Sawbwa Resplendens
Congo Tetra (bigger and more aggressive than the others)

 

[SamLovesCorys]

Yeah, a couple more female Opaline Gouramis if you want, and then a huge shoal of rummynoses. They shoal really tightly, and are very active and peaceful.

 

[tyedyefishy]

I was really trying to stay away from having a large shoal... I wanted something more unique and I wanted to be able to tell my fish apart. I ended up getting 12 Angelfish after talking to the guy at the lfs. He has a large tank at home that was filled with loaches, gouramis, and angels. I got two full sized angels and 10 of the medium sized. I'm really glad I picked this species.
The Angelfish make my tank look so much more exotic and I love how unique every one I picked out it. I can tell them all apart =). I love that they are slow-moving. My gouramis and angelicus loaches seem to swim much more now that I've found a new home for my rosy barbs. My tank isn't so busy like it was before =D !

 

[angelfishguy]

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