how does this sound for stocking my 47?

[Anonymous Fox]

4 mollies

6 glowlight tetras

5 silvertip tetras

6 bloodfin tetras

2 albino rainbow sharks (how can you be albino and rainbow at the same time?)






would it be over-stocked? I'm planing on having a planted tank with pot hides and sand substate.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Mollies need hard water and tetras prefer soft water... So you'd need to choose what would suit the water in your area really

 

[GuppyBreeder180604]

well considering your soft water I would say stick to the tetras only, molly is a hard water fish (they are native to my area and we have a Gh of 295-310 ppm)
as for the tetras remember, the more you add the better they will feel. Also, I think that the best fish to pair up are those who live in the same places since it allows you to do a loose biotope tank, that since it is imitating nature has a better chance of survival, so rainbow sharks wouldn't really fit. Also if you went for the biotope approach I should tell you that yes there is diversity but large numbers of very specific fish in a small area are more common so maybe do it something like this:
25 bloodfin tetras
15 marbled hatchet fish
15 otocinclus affinis
2 bristlenose plecos
2 Apistogramma cacatuoides

 

[Anonymous Fox]

well considering your soft water I would say stick to the tetras only, molly is a hard water fish (they are native to my area and we have a Gh of 295-310 ppm)
as for the tetras remember, the more you add the better they will feel. Also, I think that the best fish to pair up are those who live in the same places since it allows you to do a loose biotope tank, that since it is imitating nature has a better chance of survival, so rainbow sharks wouldn't really fit. Also if you went for the biotope approach I should tell you that yes there is diversity but large numbers of very specific fish in a small area are more common so maybe do it something like this:
25 bloodfin tetras
15 marbled hatchet fish
15 otocinclus affinis
2 bristlenose plecos
2 Apistogramma cacatuoides

ok ty is that, like, i could keep 25 bloodfins OR 2 cockatoo cichlids or I can keep them all in the 47 gallon together?

 

[GuppyBreeder180604]

ok ty is that, like, i could keep 25 bloodfins OR 2 cockatoo cichlids or I can keep them all in the 47 gallon together?

I mean you can keep them all together. Reading about your grandfather's lonely tetra I think that maybe you could change the 15 marbled hatchet fish for 14 glowlight tetras plus the one your grandfather already has, and so your new stocking that I recommend using the adjustments would be:
25 bloodfin tetras
15 glowlight tetras
15 otocinclus affinis
2 bristlenose plecos
2 Apistogramma cacatuoides

this is a full stocking idea, all the fish in here you could keep together in your 47 gallon