What To Put In My Tank (Eventually)

[mrshunt90]

I have now got a 60L tank with 4 male guppies. If it was your tank what would you have in it? Fully stocked

 

[Jakey02578]

I don't know. If I had that tank I'd be mooching about everywhere to see what I fancy, but I like guppies and I also like Black widow tetras:')

 

[crazyforcordoras]

I would do 10 Glowlight tetras, 2 honey gouramis ( m+f), and 8 Pygmy cories. Glowlights are my fav. I have a school of 8 in my biotope.

 

[lhandley]

Any kind of tetra would be a nice addition maybe 6-10 and if you fancy having a go at breeding your guppies you could add some females however it's preferable to have a ratio of 1 male : 2 female so you would have 4 males and 8 females but that seems a bit Impractical in a 60L IMO as it would greatly limit the amount of other fish you could get.

 

[j mac]

Hi
I am relatively new to keeping tropical fish myself but what I have learned through trial and error is:

*choose fish that suit your pH (rather than trying to change it later)
*approx 1" fish to US gallon
*check whether fish like to live in shoals
*choose variety top middle bottom dwellers (see replying I got to my question yesterday below - wish I had known this before )

REPLY TO MY QUESTION YESTERDAY) I have a 60L with cardinal tetra, cories and guppies. The numbers I have means the tank is technically overstocked, but it works because the cories are bottom dwellers, the cardinals are mid swimmers and the guppies are surface dwellers so each species very rarely gets in the way of the others.

Hope this helps

 

[dwarfgourami]

Like jmac says, I would first think about my water parameters and take it from there. I have hard alkaline water so what I keep in that size tank is some kind of livebearer (guppies get on well with platies, or some shops sell less common species such as limias) and corydoras catfish- they prefer a sandy substrate though, and shrimp. Small rainbow fish might also be a consideration or galaxy rasboras. Some tetras are also hardy enough to cope with this kind of water: x-rays, black neons, black phantoms.

If the water was soft and acid, I would go for a shoal of tetras or harlequin rasboras and corydoras as bottom dwellers.