revised stocking for the 50gal

[Japola44]

here is my new plan for stocking my 50gal planted tank:
10 black skirt tetras
8 dwarf corys
4 rainbow fish
3 yoyo loaches
3 GBR (1 male 2 females)
3 Zebra Danios
2 African butterfly fish (1 male 1 female)

does this sound good?
I dont want my rams to be under too much stress. I am going to have 5 pvc pipe caves built into the terracing, and a few other rock caves. SO hopefully the loaches and the rams will have plenty of spacy. Not to mention there will be a lot of open space for the corries. I hope the rainbows and the tetras will help balance out the amount of fish in the lower half of the tank. What do you think?

 

[Lonewolfblue]

Sounds like a good plan you have there. About the only thing I'd change is up the danios to 5. Everything else looks good.

 

[Japola44]

alright will do can't wait to get home to set it all up

any one else have suggestions

 

[Lonewolfblue]

As long as you wait til the tank is mature before adding the GBR's, you'll be fine. Mine are doing great. But I got mine young from the lfs, and I think I ended up with all males. But for the Bolivians, I have 2 males and a female. The cories won't bother them either, at least til you get a pair and they have eggs. But the cories are easily spooked away and don't stress the rams too much.

 

[Japola44]

yah. I plan to do a fishless ammonia cycle add my plants and CO2 then once thats all figured out I am going to put all my fish in the 20gal in the new tank. Then use my 20gal as a QT, but I plan to get the GBR last. Esspecially considering i have to order them through the LFS so i get some from a local breeder.