I have a 30G (might be 27-29G) with five Albino Cory Catfish, and would like to explore my options as far as stocking goes. I would ideally like to have a large, vibrant fish with somewhat of a personality, and if possible school of smaller fish other than bottom dwellers. Also, I would like to explore the possibility of adding more Cories. I have read a tad bit about Cichlids and from what I have heard they are rather large and vibrant and have unique personalities. Other than that I don't know anything about them. The fish need to be rather hardy as even though I've had the tank for several years now, I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to the maintence and feeding.
Stocking 30G Aquarium
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bettaowner
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I would say a school of 10 green neon tetras would work.
bettaowner
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Gold barbs are small and shiny. Great fish. I would say 5 or so.
bettaowner said:
Ideally I would like to have a larger fish or two (any info on Cichilds?) in addition to the existing school of cories. Having another school of fish would be nice but for now I would like to mainly focus on the possibility of adding a at least one larger fish. Thanks for your input, I'll do some research on the Gold Barbs.
bettaowner
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I think angelfish or some rams would work.
jetajockey
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paradisefish are great.
bettaowner
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Paradisefish are related to bettas and the males are also aggressive.
I'd look into blue or bolivian rams, different types of kribs, and maybe different types of gourami. A pearl gourami would make for a great centerpiece fish. For non-tetra schooling fish a nice shoal of neon dwarf rainbowfish would look great.
bettaowner
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Pearl gouramis are really cool fish.
Borderlesscott
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Pair of Bolivian Rams, or Red Breast Acara and a school of Tetra, Lemon Tetra look nice with my Bolivians.
azmodan said:
Thanks, I did some research on the Pearl Gourami's and they seem like a good candidate. I was thinking abut having a couple of those in addition to the school of cories and some other species. Would this be overstocking? I read that they can be kept together but that they need to be kept in particular number, e.g. so many females per male or something. Also, most of the sites I came across said a planted tank was a neccesity for both of the species though, along with some kind of moss or plant covering the top of the tank. Why is this? I couldn't find a lot of accurate information on the Bolivian Rams, any advice on those?
