Stocking New 50 Gallon Tank

Welcome to the forum! You could easily have 10 Corys instead of 6 if you want. I am planning on 10 in my 46g. Every time I up the number of cories in my tank, they get so much more active. Kuhlis will work with Cories, but you may want to wait until you have sand. They will be so much happier! Clown loaches need LARGE tanks and big numbers. There are smaller loaches if you like them...yo-yo loaches are cute, but schooling fish are best 6+

I love the look of Tiger barbs, but you may want to stir clear of them for this tank. They are aggressive and nippy. I decided not to get them either until I can have a species tank for them. I don't know anything about frogs.

The other schooling fish could work, just pick the ones you like best

stick to bigger numbers of less types of fish. id have probably 2 decent sized shoals, group of cories, a couple of nice plecs, and some angels i think, not a gourami fan. my personal choice would be:

15+ beunos aires tetra
15-20 cherry barbs
10+ 3 lined cory's, or a rarer species.
3 hopolo cats
pair of black angels, or maybe a black and a platinum.
2 proper nice plecs, green phantom, flash plec, queen arabesque, too many to choose from.

with sand, lots of wood and 2 or 3 types of plant only, keeping it simple but full.

FishFanatic04 said:

I love the look of Tiger barbs, but you may want to stir clear of them for this tank. They are aggressive and nippy. I decided not to get them either until I can have a species tank for them.

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Thanks for that tip. I'll steer clear of them for now.

moochy13 said:

stick to bigger numbers of less types of fish.....

with sand, lots of wood and 2 or 3 types of plant only, keeping it simple but full.

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Thanks for tips. I won't be converting to sand for quite some time and am hoping not to have to change the tank layout too much (unless I need to accommodate a shy species or something similar).

So I'll probably be sticking with tetras and/or danios for mid-strata shoaling. Would 10-12 of each be too much with, let's say, 10 cories? I'll still have those mollies eventually, too :\ Then possibly a pair of gourami's or some rasboras for the top? I'm worried I'll get carried away and overstock.

Here's my stocking as an example

10 corys
15 von rio tetra
3 platy
1 clown pleco (huge bioload so I count him as a few fish)
5- apistogramma

And I feel like my tank has a little room for some kind of individual mid-top dweller. You could have the harlequins in place of my plec and apistos...mollys instead of my platys...and your tank is bigger....

Your plan is def. going to work.

Thanks again. I found some gorgeous powdered blue dwarf gouramis in my LFS tonight being harassed by a 7" goldfish. I feel compelled to save at least 2 of them, so I might adopt when the tank is ready. I'd like at least 2 fish with a little bit of size, so that would do it just fine.

cories shouldnt really be kept on gravel.