Which Fish To Keep And Which Fish To Re-home?

[rousell]

Hi
I've recently upgraded my tank for a larger one which I purchased off eBay. It's a fluval roma 125 with a 205 external filter. Also included in the sale was all the fish. It's now all set up and running with my previous fish in and its obviously overstocked. I've added in my fluval U2 internal filter to help cope with the load for a temporary basis until I can decide which fish I'm keeping and which fish I'm rehoming. From the list below can anyone recommend which ones to keep for my community tank and the ones which shouldn't be in there. I've already been told about the clown loaches being too big so I've already attempted to contact somebody on this forum to get them re-homed.

Black neon tetra x5
Neon tetra x3
Bronze corydoras x5
Pentazona barb x6
Rainbow cichlid x2
Blue gourami x1
Dwarf golden gourami x2
Peppered corydoras x1
Clown loach x2
Clown plec x1
corydoras julli x1
White spot pleco x1
Butterfly cichlid x1
Albino bristlenose plec x1

Many thanks!

 

[LucyB]

I personally would get rid of the cichlids (I don't like big cichlids...I prefer small community fish)

The clown plec, and the white spot plec (Poop machines...Keep the albino bristlenose to stop algae growing, also I love albino bristlenoses anyway)

And the clown loaches, because they like to live in large groups and will outgrow your tank (You already mentioned this..)

I have never had gouramis or the barbs, beautiful fish but I cannot really comment there I would keep the cories, (love em')

Mmm not sure what else... Depends on your personal taste really, Maybe you love cichlids, I dunno!

 

[Tuxyu3]

Would just like to say i would not keep the Bristlenose solely to eat algae seeing how they won't even eat that much of it when mature.
I would dump the loaches and if you want to keep everything else the rainbow cichlids, usually they are peaceful for cichlids but i wouldn't risk it with small fish such as neons.

Is there anything you really want to keep?

 

[rousell]

Thanks for the replies.
To be honest with you i really like the Rainbow Cichlids as they are very beautiful fish. I'm slightly worried though because the guy who i got them from said he'd had them a couple of years and for the first time last week they had eggs. The eggs only lasted the night but he said the Rainbows got very territorial and chased anything that came near the eggs. This makes me worry if it happens again because there is more fish in the tank now.
I don't know what to do with all the small fish. Looking at the tank as it is now, there seems to be too much going off and it looks a bit of an overcrowded mess. The smaller fish seem to be just trying to avoid the bigger fish all the time but this is only the second day they have all been together so it might just be that there not used to each others company yet.