What Would You Put In A 75 Ukgal?

[Davey Jones]

What would you put in a 75 ukgal?
The tanks is 48"x18"x26"tall, and will be over filtered.
There will be 3 clown loaches and a RTBS in there and i wondered what else could go in there...

Time to give me some idea's to steal

 

[J4MES]

Nothing else really. With the 3 clowns in there your gonna need a 300g tank in 6-7 years.
You could put in some tetras of some sort.

J4MES

 

[paul_219]

Well i will add 2 oscars and 2 silver shark and any kind of pleco that will grow up.

 

[Breeze7050]

J4MES - 300 gallons is pushing it a bit, they won't need that much space. They are very slow growers. 75G should do them well for quite awhile.
Davey - the real question is, what do you like? You could do 2 large schools of smaller fish or you could do some of the slightly bigger fish... angels, gouramis, bigger tetras, ect. Do you have a color or look that you like? Here are a few ideas
angels
severums
tetra or barb shoals
1 oscar
Cories
Other loaches
hatchet fish
silver dollars
It looks like maybe you need some in the mid-top range a shoal of 6 hatchet fish would look pretty cool, but they are kind of crazy!

 

[Davey Jones]

Nothing else really. With the 3 clowns in there your gonna need a 300g tank in 6-7 years.
You could put in some tetras of some sort.

J4MES

300gal

 

[Davey Jones]

J4MES - 300 gallons is pushing it a bit, they won't need that much space. They are very slow growers. 75G should do them well for quite awhile.
Davey - the real question is, what do you like? You could do 2 large schools of smaller fish or you could do some of the slightly bigger fish... angels, gouramis, bigger tetras, ect. Do you have a color or look that you like? Here are a few ideas
angels
severums
tetra or barb shoals
1 oscar
Cories
Other loaches
hatchet fish
silver dollars
It looks like maybe you need some in the mid-top range a shoal of 6 hatchet fish would look pretty cool, but they are kind of crazy!

Must say i do like Hatchet fish and was thinking of getting some for the top, there will be some floating plants so i wasn't sure about oscars.. Maybe some of the smaller cichlids, i wasn't sure if they would mix with the clown loach and the RTBS though...My original thinking was some green tiger barbs and some rummy nose tetra's but i've gone of that idea now...

Well i will add 2 oscars and 2 silver shark and any kind of pleco that will grow up.

I don't think the Red Tailed Black Shark will mix well with the Silver shark, i do like oscars though

 

[MojoDex]

how over filtered are we talking?

 

[Davey Jones]

how over filtered are we talking?

Eheim 2217 good for 600 litres. My tanks is around 340/350 litres, by the time there's rocks, sand ect in there there will be less than that.

 

[loafybones]

BARBS!!

Green Tiger Barbs are lovely- and I've just got some Rosy Barbs, which are lovely. I'm getting a Denasoni Barb on Saturday too.

Mond you, if you do get Barbs, your tank would be exactly the same as mine as I've got Clown Loaches, RTBS and Sailfin Pleco!!

 

[Castellop123]

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[Breeze7050]

Im not by any means a cichlid expert ( I know squat ) What i do know is some are VERY aggressive. So, you will have to be careful what you put in there. Clowns can usually fend for themselves (not at the 2" size of course, but eventually), and RTBS are known to be semi - aggressive. Just be careful with the more aggressive barbs. I like the hatchet idea and TBH I like your idea of a large shoal of tiger barbs! If you are seriously considering upgrading, you could also do tinfoil barbs - very cool, but too big for me right now! They have some great ones in my LFS display tank.
Another idea - not sure if this is your thing or not - may be to get one of the larger and/or rarer plecos. Lots of cool larger ones, but they are big waste producers. Just my 2 cents.

 

[SamUK]

Well i will add 2 oscars and 2 silver shark and any kind of pleco that will grow up.

that would be a bad mix and overstocked.

id probably personally get a couple more clowns and then a medium sized cichlid like a severum or blue acara.

 

[Davey Jones]

BARBS!!

Green Tiger Barbs are lovely- and I've just got some Rosy Barbs, which are lovely. I'm getting a Denasoni Barb on Saturday too.

Mond you, if you do get Barbs, your tank would be exactly the same as mine as I've got Clown Loaches, RTBS and Sailfin Pleco!!

It would be almost identical i was thinking of a sailfin pleco as well

 

[Davey Jones]

Im not by any means a cichlid expert ( I know squat ) What i do know is some are VERY aggressive. So, you will have to be careful what you put in there. Clowns can usually fend for themselves (not at the 2" size of course, but eventually), and RTBS are known to be semi - aggressive. Just be careful with the more aggressive barbs. I like the hatchet idea and TBH I like your idea of a large shoal of tiger barbs! If you are seriously considering upgrading, you could also do tinfoil barbs - very cool, but too big for me right now! They have some great ones in my LFS display tank.
Another idea - not sure if this is your thing or not - may be to get one of the larger and/or rarer plecos. Lots of cool larger ones, but they are big waste producers. Just my 2 cents.

I know very little about cichlids as well, but as for the upgrade its allready to go almost, it's all set up and the water is cycling. The clown loaches and the RTBS are my boy's fish, they want platies like their sister as they seem much more freindly, so they will be moved to mine as soon as it's cycled, I wasn't planning on those fish at all, i might see if my lfs will take them back.

 

[my fat fish]

What would you put in a 75 ukgal?

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