37 Gallon Journal: Cycled! Now What To Stock?

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I don't see any problems with it. I don't know the Banded ones well enough to know how 2 females would compare to one (grouping of 3 vs. pair.) It might also be that you'd have enough capacity left to have a little cloud of 8 or 10 pygmy cories. One of the 3 pygmy species is the one that stays at the bottom.

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[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

Ok cool I'll see what other people say too, and thanks for always being here waterdrop

 

[OldMan47]

The one of the three pygmies that stays at the bottom most of the time is the C Habrosus. I love mine, they look like tiny versions of a peppered cory, C paleatus.

 

[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

Cool I'll look them up

 

[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

This is kinda annoying is it normal for it to keep having the same readings day after day?

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, this can be one of the frustrations with a Fish-In cycle. Because you are keeping the parameters safe for fish, there is very little room for test feedback to give you a feel about progress. It sometimes helps to run the test in question (ammonia I assume, for you) on your tap water just so you can confirm with your own eyes that if would give you a different result if the water were different.

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[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

ok thanks I'll go do that now

Checked it and it read the same so I took tank water into petsmart for a free test and it came out about the same to.

 

[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

I think it has finnaly cycled! I have been keeping tabs on it daily just didn't think posting the same thing everyday was relevant. I'll chack everything again later before I'm sure that it's cycled but I'm pretty sure it finnaly has . Whats in there right now is just two of the original Zebra Danios and 4 7 to 8 week old platy fry (In a breeders net). If it has cycled I should be able to get more fish now right? So what should I start with?

2 Banded Gouramis
2 Zebra Danios (Current)
2 Golden Zebra Danios (Will these stick with the regulars?)
4 Kuhli loaches (assorted)
4 Platys (Current)
1 Starynight Pleco (L-183)
1 Snail(nonreproducing, any suggestions?)
~10 Shrimp (Assorted, suggestions?)
I really like corys but I don't know if I have enough bottom room...Maybe some C Habrosus? How many do you suggest?

This is roughly what I'd like in the end, I'm still open to any suggestions. And what should I get first?

 

[Wills]

Hi, in a (roughly) 40g tank you will be able to have quite a few more fish than you have listed and in some cases you need it

So for starters bump up your danios to at least 8 in total, I believe that the golden zebras are the same species but not 100% lots of new danio species coming through now and might be different. Although a small change it will be a difference to the fish in there. Ill leave it to your choice though. Khulli loaches - need to be all the same type as again are all the same type of fish and need to be in a group of 6 at least. Platies are fine in 4 but watch for the amount of fry you get if you already have some be prepared to find an LFS that will take them off your hand. Pleco will be fine very nice choice - Snails, if you want one that wont reproduce that easily get an assasin snail that way if you get any pest snails it will sort them out good and proper and as for shrimp go for any you like really tons of colours available now, red, blue, green, gold, white, bumble bee any really unless you want to go for bigger ones like ammano shrimp but you dont have any fish that pose a massive threat to the shrimps.

So just to recap I would do -

2 Banded Gourami
10 Zebra Danio
4 Platies + fry
8 Khuli Loaches
1 Starlight Plec
10 Cherry Shrimp (as example)
3 Assasin Snails

and if those are the fish you want that would be a very nice 40 gallon tank IMO Just one thought to add I have upped numbers of existing fish rather than adding or suggesting new species as things like your danio and loaches are going to look much better in bigger schools and the fish will like being in bigger numbers and give you more natural and active behaviour than if they were in smaller numbers.

Wills

 

[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

Alright cool i'll probably up the numbers a bit like you suggested. And hopefully the platys wont have any fry when they're grown as I'm pretty sure they're all girls but it's still hard to tell. When my mom gets home I'll hopefully go to this new store and see if they finnaly have some fish in...

 

[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

Well yesterday brought about the addition of 4 peppered cories I was gonna just get nothing because they didn't have any zebra danios that i wanted (To up my numbers) But these guys just caught me. They are so entertaining and are doing good so far.

 

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Sounds nice T-M! Keep us informed. WD

 

[Torchwood~Mindfreak]

One peppered cory died and I went to get a replacement and came home with 5 tiger barbs and 3 dwarf gouramis D: I was pressured, the parents were buying for once and they wanted color in the tank! I guess zebra danios just don't do it for them lol