Do you see any problems with this?

[YourPalCM]

I've only kept African Cichlids for the last few years. I'm planning to set up a new tank and have settled on the following combination of fish. Does anyone see a problem with the following mixture?

3 - Powder Blue Gourami
3 - Neon Rainbowfish
5 - Silver Dollars
8 - Tiger Barbs
Maybe 1 - Angel (haven't settled on the type)

This will be a 55 gallon tank, with pool filtersand substrait, Fluval 404 and probably an aquaclear powerhead with a filter attachment. (That should be plenty of filtration.)

I understand that Silver Dollars are plant eaters/destroyers. Has anyone been able to successfully keep plants with SDs? Are there any types of plants that they will tend to stay away from?

Also, I'm a little concerned about the Tiger Barbs. I've had Tiger Barbs before a long time ago but it was before the days of the Internet and before I had a clue. I made the mistake of only having 3 of them and one of them was a serial-killer-Barb who nipped the fins off of every other fish in the tank - even killed the other 2 barbs. It was really weird - more destructive than any Cichlid I ever had. So I'm a little wary. I've read that Tiger Barbs will be fine if kept in larger groups. I assume 8 is large enough.

Thoughts?

 

[Ben]

hi

Ur tiger barbs will be fine in a group of 6, 3 or 8 and ur tank will be bug enuf for them to swim around and stay out of eachothers way. i duno bout silver dollars which ive kept with plants and none have been destroyed

 

[Auratus]

Sounds good. Gold barbs are a little less aggressive but aren't as nice looking imo.

 

[Sky042]

based on the responses I got from my tiger/angel thread you don't want to mix them together. Think maybe cherry barbs or something else.

 

[cometcattle]

I wouldnt put tigers with angels, but the rest sound good. Dont know about sd's though.