Help With Stocking

[Aquamaniac]

Hi

My tank is now working for 3/2 months.So far the fish inside were just there temporarily due to my wife's tank being overstocked.
But now i want to start on a permanent stocking for my tank.
So all the guppys,plattys and mollys will go and i will be adding new fish gradually troughout the course of the next weeks.
It only had 7 fish inside so i am worried that the amount of bacteria in my filter wont be able to cope with the introduction of a great amount of fish.
But my doubts are really wich fish to add?
First the setup:
Fluval roma 240: aprox 240 litre
filtration: Fluval 305 (cycled) + eheim 2215 (cycling added 3 weeks ago)
Heater: fluval mirrored M 300 watts
Light: 2x54watts
co2: pressurized
substrate: tescos catt litter
fertile soil: tropica aquacare mixed with old akadama from my last assembly.
Plants:
Pogostemon erectus
rotalla wallichi
lialleopsis brasiliensis
eliocharis parvula

Water Ph: 7.0

The thing is on my last tank i kept angelfish with neon tetras. I did not have major problems because the jungle like scape gave the neons alot of hiding space were the angels wouldn't fit.
But this time my scape is different so i've decided not to try my luck.
So my options are:
Keep the angels and add other compatible fish that don't end up lunch
Keep the neons and replace the angels with something smaller.
Or go for something completely diferent. Since my begginings i stayed faithfull to a few species of fish so some novelty would be welcomed.

I will welcome and research on any advice given for stocking of this tank.
Please bare in mind that a cleaning crew will be in this tank to help me with algae.
Some SAE's and ottos.

 

[Aquamaniac]

Ok i've spent my morning around my fish encyclopedia and also researching on the net.
I've decided to drop the angels and neons on go for new fish species.
My first choice is a schoal of zebra danios. Aparently they're not hard to keep.
But some places says it needs ph between 6.0 / 6.5 others say between 6.0/8.0.
My question will they be fine in 7.0?
Right now i've settled for
SAE's
ottos
zebra danio's

I'me gonna research more.
Any advice on tank mates.

 

[OldMan47]

At a pH of 7.0 you can keep almost any fish. It is unlikely that your water is excessively hard or soft in that situation. I wish I had your water really. Be careful to get true SAEs and not CAEs which are sometimes mis-identified. Otocinclus are a fish that I have never kept successfully since they will refuse to eat any artificial food at all, at least that is how it worked out for me. For me otos lasted just about as long as the algae in the tank plus a couple of weeks while they starved. Zebras are darned easy fish to keep in anything but a small tank. They love to have lots of room to swim. I have kept them at 7.8 pH so don't worry about your closer to ideal 7.0 value.
Some other easy care fish are the rasboras often sold as rasbora hets or harlequin rasboras. I just love the guys in reasonable numbers, not as singles or simple pairs. Another option you have is almost any of the cory species. I favor the pygmy sized ones like hastatus , habrosus or pygmaeus but even things like trilineatus, false julii, or even the peppers are delightful if kept in groups of at least 6 per species and better yet in dozens per species if you have the room for that many. They are the most playful fish that I keep, even though I have 26 tanks running right now.

 

[Aquamaniac]

At a pH of 7.0 you can keep almost any fish. It is unlikely that your water is excessively hard or soft in that situation. I wish I had your water really. Be careful to get true SAEs and not CAEs which are sometimes mis-identified. Otocinclus are a fish that I have never kept successfully since they will refuse to eat any artificial food at all, at least that is how it worked out for me. For me otos lasted just about as long as the algae in the tank plus a couple of weeks while they starved. Zebras are darned easy fish to keep in anything but a small tank. They love to have lots of room to swim. I have kept them at 7.8 pH so don't worry about your closer to ideal 7.0 value.
Some other easy care fish are the rasboras often sold as rasbora hets or harlequin rasboras. I just love the guys in reasonable numbers, not as singles or simple pairs. Another option you have is almost any of the cory species. I favor the pygmy sized ones like hastatus , habrosus or pygmaeus but even things like trilineatus, false julii, or even the peppers are delightful if kept in groups of at least 6 per species and better yet in dozens per species if you have the room for that many. They are the most playful fish that I keep, even though I have 26 tanks running right now.

Thanks.
After a lot of researching i made my decision and picked up my fish last sunday.
So i stocked the tank with:

9 danio zebras
5 glowlight danio's
5 ottos
3 SAE's
6 amano shrimps

I also choosed false harlequin rasboras but some mistake by the LFS guy i did not have them when i got home. I checked my receipt i was not charged for them anyway so i'll get some next time i go to the LFS.
I have to thank the guy alot i'm a regular costumer so he gave some freebies of every fish i asked.
So far everything is ok with all the fish,on the first night a amano shrimp molted and what was left of is skin got stuck on the filter inflow grid so i was scared one of them might have died. But i counted them they were all still there and after close analysis and a internet search i realized that it had molted.

For now i'll start with these and see how they are doing.I'll add the false harlequin rasboras for sure next time i go to the shop.
My first idea was harlequin rasboras but i just fell in love with the false ones also called rasbora espei.