75g tank advice on stocking

[Forester]

Hi everyone I have a 75g tank with

3 ropefish
2 blood parrots
1 gibbeceps pleco what other 4-8 inch cichlids could I have and what would be good dithering fish. Thanks for the suggestions

 

[Esoteric Backbone]

I'm not sure three ropefish will work in a 75gallon, don't they need more room?

 

[alLexX]

thre not cichlids,but get a rainbow shark,there awesome.in a tank that size you may be able to do 2.

 

[HUKIT]

Unless your rehoming fish IMO your on the heavy side already, with the rope fish hitting 18-24" but staying thin, the blood parrots 10", and your Pleco hitting 16-20" there's no more room. Rehome the plec and the rope fish then add a bristlenose and then you'd have room for one medium sized fish.

 

[Forester]

I have a rainbow shark in there now but he'll move to my new 55g

 

[Forester]

The sizes of the current fish are

3 ropefish 12 inch
2 blood parrots 4 inch
1 gibbeceps pleco 10 inch

And none of them are growing that fast. But in about a year maybe a little more I'll be getting a monster tank and they'd go in there. Also I have a fluval fx5 on the 75g so I might be able to overstock a little bit cause of that. Thanks for the suggestions

 

[HUKIT]

Overfiltering certainly helps some but we all know life happens and what if that monster tank doesn't come for whatever reason, now your stuck with a overcrowded tank trying to rehome the fish while they suffer. My best advice is buy the tank then worry about stocking the fish not the other way around.

 

[Forester]

Even if the monster tank does come I have an lfs that will give a home to any fish so that would take care of that.

 

[imtcurveball]

Get a convict cichlid

 

[toddnbecka]

Not too many other cichlids would mix well with the ropefish and parrots, maybe an angelfish. A group of silver dollars would be good, particularly if they'd be moving into the larger tank later.