How does this sound?

[anthony6377]

I am going to purchase a 28 gallon bowfront and plan on having the "showcase" fish be a pair of Ram Cichlids (unsure of the species as of yet). As far as the other fish I was thinking about...

-A small school of Tiger Barbs (around 6)
-Some sort of loach(es) (Any suggestions?)
-A school of Cories

Possibly (although I don't think I have enough room) a school of Rainbow Fish.

Would that work? Could I replace the Tiger Barbs with the Rainbow Fish?

 

[OrkyBetta]

That sounds overstocked to me. But I don't know much about those fish. Based on the one inch per gallon rule, I think that is too many fish.

 

[freddyk]

The tank is much too small for rainbow fish. I don't think I'd do the Rams and Tigerbarbs because of how frantically active the barbs tend to be - they could stress out the Rams. I'd be inclined to replace the barbs with another characin more apt to use the mid and upper levels of the water and not get in the way of the Rams. If you want something with a little life to them, perhaps some serpae, bleeding heart, or lemon tetra's would do the trick.

 

[anthony6377]

Thanks for the replies. I'll start checking out some more options. Better off doing it now than finding out after I bought the fish.

 

[Sky042]

Again I'll say if you haven't already spent the cash on the 28 bow why not get a 55 for probably less money.

But I agree with the above poster. Tiger barbs dominate a tank. The ram's would vanish in the tan and black swarm of fish who follow you around the room hoping you'll feed them.

If you went with German Blue rams and softened the water with peat or something you could have a school of cardinals in there and that would look stunning.