29 Gallon Stocking After Winter Storm

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Well I got done cycling my 29 gallon tank and I was wondering what I cold put in there?
8-harlequins
8-smallish tetra
6-peppered or emerald green cory
1-rubberlip pleco
 
2 type of gouramis,6 black neons,6 of some other tetra and 5 corys

Well, it all depends on what you're looking for
i can give you an idea of some fish that could go well in your tank...

for the two gourami, blue gourami, moonlight gourami, and pearl gourami, can go in well, but, with previous experience, it's best (if going with blue gourami) to get two females.

the six black neons would be fine, but adding another six cooould be stretching it. now there's other ways that you could do this. you could go with tetras with the same shape, colour, or you could just get another 4-6 black neons. I, myself, like to have a bit of diversity, and like to get fish of, around, the same shape, as they seem to school together. I have two rosy tetras, and three serpaes (soon going) and they school together all the time, it's really awesome to watch two species get along so well together
but if you are getting the black neons, then i'd suggest either more black neons, regular neons, or some cardinals, whatever tickles your fancy anyways.

and with the corys, 4-5 would be fine, i find they clean more of the mess more than they make

and one last thing, you could also do what i like to do, and make a theme, getting fish from the same areas and putting them together (such as south america, asia, africa, etc)
 
thanks randy I was goning for the more peaceful tank because my cories are getting bullied by my firemouth and im taking the firemouth back and going for a more peaceful tank I was thinking
5 black neons,5 serpae or 5 of anouther colorful tetra got any suggestions?,5 corys,1 pearl gourami and could I fit 5 of some other tetra or not and the tank will be over filtered
 
well with 15 tetras, a pearl gourami, and the corys, that, i think, would be a little over stocked, but managable
now, with the serpaes, i suggest not getting them, as they tend to be the major bully of the aquarium (even with their small size) they like to pick on anything with long fins (such as goruamis and angels), i've had bad times with them, they ate almost anything i put in there (including other fish)
so i suggest staying away from them, unless you build the tank around them

now for the tetras...
i'd suggest about 12 tetras(giving you the availability of 4 of 3 different tetras)
so i would suggest some like...
-rosy tetras (not sure of the real name, it was just the name given at the LFS)
-bleeding heart tetras (peaceful, and add colour)
-black skirt tetras (really nice, short fins look neater though)
-black phantom tetras (go really well with black skirt tetras)
-and then, as i suggested before, regular neons and cardinals (look good with black neons)
another fish i suggest to stay away from are penguin tetras (also known as hockeystick tetras) they tend to like to stay in a group, but outcast one or two... this can result in the loss of a penguin tetra one at a time (from previous experience)

Two other kinds of fish, if you don't really want to go with tetras are...
Barbs and Rasboras
Barbs, depending on what your looking for, can be nice, but some, like tiger barbs, can be rather aggressive, and sometimes like to gang up on other fish, but barbs like cherry barbs, snakeskin barbs and rosy barbs i hear are great (i only owned tiger barbs)
Also, rasboras go surprisingly well with pearl gouramis, if you want, you could set up a tank of 2-3 pearl gouramis, and a school of 8-10 (even 12, if pushing it) herlequin rasboras, this combination of fish looks amazing, and i was tempted to do it myself! Also, it could help with a theme, as barbs, rasboras and gouramis are all from asia!

There's many more possibilities, if you want any more ideas or anything, and i don't get back too quick, just message me on here, and i'll send you my msn
 
thanks alot randy you are very helpful
I have a shoal of 6 tigerbarbs in my 20 gallon along with some red eye tetras and the tiger barbs are reallly cool they have great personalitys.
I was thinking this for my 29 gallon
5 black neons
5 head and light or glo lite tetras either or
1 pearl gourami
6 corys
and if I could fit these in there 4 red eye tetras

sorry for the late posts my computer is messing up and it said that there was no new posts in my thread.
 
thanks alot randy you are very helpful
I have a shoal of 6 tigerbarbs in my 20 gallon along with some red eye tetras and the tiger barbs are reallly cool they have great personalitys.
I was thinking this for my 29 gallon
5 black neons
5 head and light
1 pearl gourami
6 corys
and if I could fit these in there 4 red eye tetras

Hiya I like this list, one thing I would say though, pearl gourami aren't the strongest fish in the world, mine both died and i have excellent stats.
My gold gourami has been by far the strongest in health and is very strong gold colouration, beautiful (but have just one or they fight).
I think 6 cories is great.
10 tetra sounds good too, but you could get away with 12! The only thing I would say is that neons aren't particularly strong in health either, but that's just me, I prefer to buy fish that are known for their hardiness. In which case it wouldn't be neons, but I do like the stocking list, so if you're unfazed by things like hardiness then go for it!
 
thanks mermaid mel yes I have heard about the neons not being very hardy so I think that I will not get those because I dont want them to die.
this is the stocking I would like
5 glo lite tetras
5 bleeding heart tetras or harlequin rasboras?
1 red fire gourami or gold gourami
6 corys
1 rubberlip pleco
the reason that I cant really decide right now is because I have to wait to go to my lfs because I dont have one that is not 30-1hr away
 
thanks mermaid mel yes I have heard about the neons not being very hardy so I think that I will not get those because I dont want them to die.
this is the stocking I would like
5 glo lite tetras
5 bleeding heart tetras or harlequin rasboras?
1 red fire gourami or gold gourami
6 corys
1 rubberlip pleco
the reason that I cant really decide right now is because I have to wait to go to my lfs because I dont have one that is not 30-1hr away

Ok well bleeding heart and harlequins both excellent choices, SO hardy. You could swerve the glo lites and have a bunch of bleeding heart (say 5) and then 7 harlequins. I wouldn't be able to comment on the red fire gourami as i haven't had any, are they like dwarf blues but in red? Might be more peaceful than the gold gourami, they can be chasers. With the rubberlip they prefer cooler temps and i haven't managed to keep 1 alive for longer than 2 months due the other fish needing slightly higher temps, so that's your call, you may have better luck. A better more hardy plec is the clown pleco which is cheap and pretty and readily available. Or, if you can find one then a dwarf gold spot pleco. Both incredibly hardy and very cute! Cories - I still agree there, which type would you have?
 
i was probally going to go with either my 5 albanio cories which have great personalites or maybe 5 leapord cories which I have found not to have near the personality :no:
As I said before in recent posts I would love to have some harlequins but they are pretty hard to find in my area(kentucky)If I can find harlequins I will defiently get them.I was wondering do bleeding hearts have good personailitys or not?I might go with the gold gourami because they look good and are reasonobly priced so how does this sound?
7 harlequins if i can find them if I cant find them maybe 7 pristella tetras
1 gold gourami
5-6 corys
5 bleeding heart tetras
and either clown pleco or dwarf gold spot pleco??
Thanks for replying back with helpful info
 
didn't think i was gonna get on today! lmao
anyways...
the harlequins, from what i hear, have great personalities, and are a big favorite to hobbiests, since they tend to mix well with almost everything

bleeding hearts (though i've never owned them) i would assume would be around the same as my rosy tetras. I love how they swim, but they're easily impressionable! since my rosy's got mixed in with the serpaes, they act just like them now !

pearl gouramis, i find, tend to be rather good, depending on if you pick a good one or not. most of the time you can pick out a good one just by colouration (bright, and healthy looking), the fins (rather nice, and trimmed, not torn, or atleast in many places) and by the shape of the fish itself (i've seen many that looked more like a balloon variant of the original)

regular neon tetras, around here anyways, i find one of the best surviving fish out there! they've survived everything my dad had in his tank for over seven years now! including fin rot, body and fin fungus', and many other diseases that only seemed to slow them down temporarely... but black neons i would not be 100% sure... but it'd be a good bet that they'd be nearly the same, if not completly.

and if you want to read this, i'll give you some other options for fish...

for space fillers (as i like to call them, like tetras, rasboras, etc.) you could have many possibilities, some other possibilities are danios. these guys have amazing personalities, like to swim in schools, and depending on the species, tend to be very active, so they're fun to watch.
I've had experience with both zebra and giant danios. Giant danios are a little big, and do take up a lot of room, but they're pretty cool to watch... one giant danio i'd say would equal about two tetras, but at a good 4", they're pretty cool to watch. Zebra danios, on the other hand, are nearly the same, less aggressive (giant danios tend to go nuts over food!), equal the same as a regular tetra (waste) but are a lot more active and interesting to watch. These guys were one of my favorites growing up!

Bottom feeders are some fish I really love watching them. Corys may be some of the most active and fun to watch, but i find they're way too common, and i like to have fish that not everybody (except for people like on the forums) would have... Like loaches!
kuhlii loaches are some of the coolest cleaners i have EVER owned... I currently only have one, and they are nocturnal, but they, i find, are rather durable, different, and deffinitly, without a DOUBT full of personality and spunk. I've been working on cleaning another tank (not coming along so well) so then i could set up an asian theme and include the kuhlii, and get him some friends, but it's still really awesome when he does come out, and watch him zip across the tank. These guys tend to become more friendly and more courageous as you add more (probably only anywhere from 4-6... possibly 8, in your tank) and they'll, even though nocturnal, will slowly come out during the day, and eventually during feeding. I love them because they look like eels! :p

Also, if you're looking for great personality, and something you could even interact with (through the glass at least) you could try cichlids. Smaller, friendlier cichlids are best to start off with. Such as what i have, a convict cichlid. Just, if you decide to get a convict, make sure that if you get more than one, that you either keep it all females. one male in a community tank, or one female in a community tank is fine, but two males, and prepare for a fight, one of each, prepare for insta-breeding and highly territorial fish!


There's quite a bit there for you to read! lmao
 
thanks alot
I have a firemouth but I am thinking about taking it back becasue it bit all of my corys barbles off and now they are not doing good at all so I think I am not going back to them?
I would really like some harlequins,corys,tetras and a pleco
I was thinking 7 harlequins,5-6 glo lite or bleeding heart and 5 corys a type of centerpeice fish and a pleco ohh and some snails
 
I was thinking 7 harlequins,5-6 glo lite or bleeding heart and 5 corys a type of centerpeice fish and a pleco ohh and some snails

Well, hate to say it, but i can already see some problems with that set up (only some of it at least)
Plecos are probably some of the coolest algae eaters you can possibly get, they're like sharks!!! But they make way too much poo, and if you keep them in a tank that small (smallest i reccommend is a 40 gallon, 50's better) then they'll become stunted, and that could result in a shorter life, due to health problems. If you're just looking for algae eaters, you two best bets are hillstream loaches (awesome, they look just like small stingrays) and Otocinclus Catfish (best algae eaters EVER, aka Ottos), so ottos' are your bets bet, as they're, generally, non-stop algae eating machines! and since you can have a school of them, your plants/decorations will be completly clean in just a week (with only four ottos!)
And with snails, though they may be really cool to have, unless you only get one snail (such as a large apple snail) it can cause serious problems, such as slime build up on the sides of the tank, in the filter, and on the plants. plus, if you have more than one snail, you can prepare for a snail EXPLOSION! with only two snails one day, to a few hundred the next! I love snails, and i really wanted to keep some, but once the explosion happened, i had to go on a bit of a killing spree...

that's pretty much it for problems though, lol

only thing is, depending on your centerpiece fish, you maaay have to lose some of the tetras
yet again, it depends on what you're looking for... pitch me some ideas and i'll tell you, if i know the fish, if it'll be good or not for your set up.
 
ok no pleco because like you said they are poo machines and I dont have many chocies around here that arent the common plecos.
I was wondering what do you think would be a good centerpeice fish?
stocking
6 harlequins
5 glo lite or some other tetra that doesnt grow over around 1.75in
5 corys
1 centerpeice fish
4 ottos
Is it true that ottos are hard to keep?Thats just what I have heard from previous ovners and also will they eat algae wafers because I wont have algae probally at first for them to eat?
No snails I dont want a snail out break I heard that they can be pesks


ok no pleco because like you said they are poo machines and I dont have many chocies around here that arent the common plecos.
I was wondering what do you think would be a good centerpeice fish?
stocking
6 harlequins
5 glo lite or some other tetra that doesnt grow over around 1.75in
5 corys
1 centerpeice fish
4 ottos
Is it true that ottos are hard to keep?Thats just what I have heard from previous ovners and also will they eat algae wafers because I wont have algae probally at first for them to eat?
No snails I dont want a snail out break I heard that they can be pesks

One more thing I was wondering have you ever bought off of aquabid? I was going to buy some javamoss and fish from there but I was wanting some advice on security and sellers being good at getting stuff to you? just wondering

William
 
Ottos are simple, lol, i've been getting mine from walmart, so they're not long lived... from there anyways :|
and i always buy my fish from the LFS, i like it more cuz there's a guarentee on the fish you're gonna get, that you like (cuz you pick it yourself), and an almost 100% chance the fish will actually survive transport (unless you choose an unhealthy fish, or go on a like, 20 day ride, lol)

well, your stocking sounds perfect, just it all depends on the centerpiece fish now...
well, i, personally, think that your best bet would be a new world cichlid...
some of what i think are the best choices are...
- Convict cichlid - one of the best fish i have EVER owned
- Keyhole cichlid - rather peaceful fish, and don't get overwhelmingly large
- Rams (German blue, bolivian, etc) - Easily one of the most peaceful cichlids you can get, and a good specimine really brightens up the tank!
- Cockatoo cichlids - Expensive, but a nice addition to any tank
and Firemouths - personality tends to change from fish to fish, from super easy and peaceful, to overly aggressive and constantly fighting...

Others could be gouramis, like...
- Pearl gourami - beautiful and a surprisingly peaceful fish (i find hardy, even though others disagree)
- Blue gourami - males tend to be shy or agressive, if not the two, but females are awesome
- Opaline gourami - same as blue, basically
- moonlight gourami - another like blue, more peaceful i find
- gold gourami - i'd say nice, peaceful and hardy, but i've never owned one personally
- paradice gourami - really nice, and generally awesome, especially for gouramis
- snakeskin gouramis - REALLY awesome fish, get huge, but is still peaceful towards other fish! (9-10"!!!)

I suggest, for a community tank, to stay away from african cichlids though... as they like to be very aggressive... they're best to have with other african cichlids.

there's probably many other possibilities, but i just listed some of my top fish i'd choose... for a community tank (including tetras) anyways.
 
Hey clown plecos are tiny and so are the dwarf gold spot, like 1-2" they do not make a lot of poo at all, I promise you that is why i suggested them

Bleeding heart tetra are great and much hardier than glo-lite tetra so I suggest this

Gold gourami much hardier than pearl and make a nice centerpiece fish

Otos do not live long AT ALL, do not bother lol

Honestly, we decided this many posts ago, do not doubt your original plans because they are good! Albino cories all the way, I love those little guys
 

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