GOOD or not good

[ryan]

would this work-50g-

2 clown plecs
1 bristlenose
3 silver dollars
1 male plattie
2 female platties
6 golden barbs
6 cory's
2 angels
1 kissing gourami

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I decided to answer this b/c nobody else was (I say this becasue I'm not an expert at all). It's one inch of fish per 1 gallon.

There is a table for it, it's something like:

1 inch fish (tail not included) = 1 gallon of water

2 inch fish (tail not included) = 3 gallons

3 inch fish (tail not included) = 8 gallons

I, personally, got stuch with a three-inch iridescent shark, four inch goldfish (tail not included), two platies, and an algae etaer, in a five gallon tank! They've been there for over four months (though I had eighteen fish in there at the beginning b/c I had no idea what I was doing, and all but three died (that's when I bought a handbook on it)) and only one platy died (not of the top two) but that, I believe, was because I had to move it to a net breeder and back.

In short, it all depends on the size of your fish, gallons per # of inches, and where the fish normally swims. (I.e. danios at top, platies in middle, corydoras, plecties, and algae at bottom, and goldfish everywhere)


Sorry if this made me seem as though I was insinuating that you were a novice (I, myself, am a novice by the way), but I just wanted to get that info out.

Whew.
Hope that helped.

 

[Thomas A. Anderson]

Not sure about the golden barbs and the angels together, I had a shoal of golden Brabs that killed a Betta when I first started out. I suspect it was the flowing fins that they went for.

Silver Dollars can get pretty large upto around 8 inches each .The Silver Dollars require a large tank, a standard 55 or 40 gallon would be fine. The tank should have no live plants as this species is mainly vegetarian in habit. The substrate should be dark in color with subdued lighting. They are schooling fish and will always be shy and skittish in a small tank, so give them as much room as possible. The diet should primarily include plant material, particularly Romaine Lettuce, along with the various live foods. Water quality is not critical and the temperature should be kept in the upper Seventies to low Eighties

The corys - what kind are you looking for as some are bigger than others.

 

[Morrgan]

Golden barbs can grow up to 4 inches, that means 24 inches for 6 of them.

A kissing gourami can get as big as 12 inches (I think), but usually stays at 6 inches in the aquarium.

Silver dollars grow to 5 inches, so that's 15 inches for three.

That's already 45 inches for a 50 gal tank, and I've only gone through a third of the fish on your list. All of them won't fit.

I suggest you first choose if you want barbs or not. If you want the barbs, don't get the angels or the gourami, for the barbs might nip their fins or otherwise stress them by being livelier than they.

If you don't get the barbs, you should choose between the angels and the gourami. Keeping them together might work, but it's more probable that there will be trouble, either from the angels or the gourami.

Then, I'd go with either one plec or one bristlenose, not both.

The silver dollars would like to be in a larger group than three, but I don't think a larger group will do well in a 50 gal. I suggest you don't get them.