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[lilme]

for a friends aqarium 29 gallons she wants to add this but tell me if it not capatible or need more\less


8 cory cats she wants to have 2 green corys 2 pandas and mix up the other 4
2 oto
2 bristle nose pleco
4 black kuhliue loach
3 longfin danio
3 reg zebra danio
5 red minor longfin tetra
3 bloon mollys
5 rasbora harliquin
live plants moss ball and hornet worth or somthing like that sand bottem and higly filterd and plenty of air flow and hiding space

 

[Mystic Fish]

Way over stocked. Try google aqadvisor. I don't think you can put 2 bristle nose together? And even just 1 might be too big?


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[Wiggles24]

Waaay too many folks competing at the bottom of that tank!

 

[emilygupps]

I wouldn't do danios in a tall tank they do best with a bigger foot print to swim. I started with danios in my 29 and they just weren't happy.

Harlequins might do fine. I have five in mine.

Add more ottos, like 6 total minimum. But after the tank has been running a while.

I would say pick one schooling fish and just get that kind in a bigger school it will look more interesting than 3 of several.


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[Angela1108]

That's about double the amount of fish that would be good for that tank

Like Em said ottos should be in groups of 6 or more. That and the plecos cats and ottos is very bottom heavy. Most 29 gallon tanks are small footprint and tall so you would want to avoid that many. I would scratch the plecos too because of the size of the tank. Especially if they do the ottos or cats


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[lilme]

ok she said make a list of fish with personality she is determind on the corys and the black kuhli loach but the rest is up for debate

 

[Mystic Fish]

Fish with personality - any 2 dwarf cichlids (apistogramma)

Heres my 29 gal tall tank:

2 apistogramma pandurini (make sure to get them together and that they like eachother)
4 Kuhli Loach (or 4 cory's, not sure how they would go with dwarf cichlids, should be alright? someone?)
3 otocinclus (get them only when your tank has algae, make sure to supplement their algae with zucchini, sushi type seaweed sheets)
8 Cardinal Tetra (or other small type schooling fish)

Thats fully stocked
else add an extra Kuhli and minus a Cardinal tetra
All these fish need plants/hiding spots

I feed my tank mostly Brine Shrimp and flake food, occasionally bloodworms since bloodworms bloat fish. I let some go in the filters water stream so that it gets to the bottom for the Kuhli Loaches. About twice a week i put in some blanched zucchini for the loaches since probably not enough food reaches them. Make sure to have a zuchini hanging away from the bottom for your oto's to eat.

 

[Angela1108]

Well with both kuhli and cats in there the tank won't have room for much. Maybe one more school and a centerpiece.


Loaches also do better in groups too- still pretty bottom heavy. If going with cats and kuhli loaches I would do 6 cats and 4-5 loaches. Even just those are atill fairly bottom heavy


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[Angela1108]

Loaches get very timid when they are alone. Chances are you will barely see them with only a few. The more you have the more they adventure out


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[Mystic Fish]

And if you do go bottom heavy with kuhli and cats, i would skip my apistogramma idea

 

[azmodan]

Instead of a bunch of small schools recommend to her instead to do 1-2 larger schools. They look more impressive this way and the tank ends up looking less scattered and busy.

 

[lilme]

ok she desided 6 or 8 cardnil tetra and 6 cherry barb a honey gouramie or pair and loach 4 corys 6

 

[Angela1108]

Def a lot better looking


With the cherry barbs get 2 male and 4 female. Like a lot of species the makes harass females a tad so you want more females (unless you did all M or all F)


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[Mystic Fish]

It still seems pretty packed. Is it a tall tank or a long tank?

Maybe go 6 Cardinal 5 Cherry's (how Angela said it 2 male 3 female) 4 Loach 4 Cory a honey gouramie

But yeah, feels like 1 too many species for a 30 gal