Looking For A Bottom Feeder! 125G Community

[Brahmza]

Hey everyone. I'm looking for a bottom feeder for my 125g community. It will be housing 1 pair of severums, 10 rainbows and 8 denisons barbs. I'm hoping to find one that I can keep in groups, like 6+, 8-10 preferably. Open to anything! Thanks

 

[Liv15]

Clown loaches are colourful and really cute. Also you can definately keep them in groups as the have to be kept in groups. They get about a foot long. Research them though, I don't know much about keeping them apart from what I have already written.
http/tamarind.hubpages.com/hub/Clown-Loaches

 

[Sophie]

I'm afraid 125g will not be large enough for a group of Clown Loaches in your higher margin. Highly active fish who need a lot of space. Some people may disagree but full grown they are impressive in size.

When you say bottom feeder - are you talking Plec or something in particular?

 

[Ninjouzata]

Hey everyone. I'm looking for a bottom feeder for my 125g community. It will be housing 1 pair of severums, 10 rainbows and 8 denisons barbs. I'm hoping to find one that I can keep in groups, like 6+, 8-10 preferably. Open to anything! Thanks

I know we talked about it in chat but still wanted to write it here. Yoyo loaches c:
 

I'm afraid 125g will not be large enough for a group of Clown Loaches in your higher margin. Highly active fish who need a lot of space. Some people may disagree but full grown they are impressive in size.

When you say bottom feeder - are you talking Plec or something in particular?

What length tank would you say is good for them? I'm just wondering, for future reference. I know I can look it up but prefer hearing it directly from someone

 

[Brahmza]

Pleco, loaches, corys, other cats like pictus or rahpael, columbian sharks, ect. Whatever you'd like to suggest. The yo-yos are on my maybe list, depending on if I set up a separate tank for my snails or not. XD

 

[Liv15]

I'm afraid 125g will not be large enough for a group of Clown Loaches in your higher margin. Highly active fish who need a lot of space. Some people may disagree but full grown they are impressive in size.
When you say bottom feeder - are you talking Plec or something in particular?

So you're saying a 6ft tank is too small for clown loaches?

 

[fm1978]

 

I'm afraid 125g will not be large enough for a group of Clown Loaches in your higher margin. Highly active fish who need a lot of space. Some people may disagree but full grown they are impressive in size.
When you say bottom feeder - are you talking Plec or something in particular?

So you're saying a 6ft tank is too small for clown loaches?
 

 
I think she may have been referring to the eventual size of 8 - 10 Clowns swimming about together in a 6ft tank. Can you imagine how cramped it might be with over 8ft of bulky fish in there?!

 

[Liv15]

I'm afraid 125g will not be large enough for a group of Clown Loaches in your higher margin. Highly active fish who need a lot of space. Some people may disagree but full grown they are impressive in size.
When you say bottom feeder - are you talking Plec or something in particular?

So you're saying a 6ft tank is too small for clown loaches?

 
I think she may have been referring to the eventual size of 8 - 10 Clowns swimming about together in a 6ft tank. Can you imagine how cramped it might be with over 8ft of bulky fish in there?!

Ahh yeah, I agree! I did post a link on clown loaches and said to research them though as I know I don't know a whole lot about keeping them. It would be so cool if they would stay small or if there were dwarf versions!

 

[DerpPH]

Well id say a psuedacanthicus pleco like the scarlet leopard plecs are a good bet. So are some gold nugget plecs and some medium sized plecs

 

[Lunar Jetman]

You can't go wrong with 8-10 Corys!

 

[DerpPH]

You can't go wrong with 8-10 Corys!

In a tank this size? Id say 20 for good measure

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Your Denisons Barbs do not suit that community, they are a temperate species, keeping them at permanently tropical temps will knock chunks off their lifespan (doing well to reach 5 years rather than 8).
 
If you want a group of colourful barbs, choose ones that are more tropical temperature tolerant all year round, such as Snakeskin Barbs (Puntius rhomboocellatus).

 

[Sophie]

 

 

I'm afraid 125g will not be large enough for a group of Clown Loaches in your higher margin. Highly active fish who need a lot of space. Some people may disagree but full grown they are impressive in size.
When you say bottom feeder - are you talking Plec or something in particular?

So you're saying a 6ft tank is too small for clown loaches?
 

 
I think she may have been referring to the eventual size of 8 - 10 Clowns swimming about together in a 6ft tank. Can you imagine how cramped it might be with over 8ft of bulky fish in there?!
 


 
This is precisely what I meant.

 

[Brahmza]

If I can't do the Denisons, I'd be looking for a schooling/shoaling fish of similar size. I don't want to go much smaller. I also will be having 1 geophagus surinamensis and 1 blue acara in the tank. Going with 6 rainbows of 1 species rather than 10 rainbows of 2 different species. I wanted to stay away from cories if I can, due to the small size and high pricing. I'm leaning more towards a group of striped raphaels, or something similar.

 

[DerpPH]

Id suggest a pleco for your tank. And for schoolers Id suggest tetras! They go perfect with rainbows. Just pick the medium sized tetras like the rumy nose and lemons