New Tank Syndrome

[uptheiron]

Within the next week or so i will be taking delivery of a 4ft by 2ft by 2ft tank, and am after ideas of what to stock it with. I'm a great lover of cichlids, so my convicts and firemouths may end up in there, as may my severums. Any others ideas??

 

[Kossy]

Discus would be nice with huge masses of corys.

 

[Kossy]

Like a male and female of all the cory species (well not all but many)

 

[uptheiron]

Cool idea, looks like my newly acquired dragon goby wil be going in there as well.

 

[CFC]

Cool idea, looks like my newly acquired dragon goby wil be going in there as well.

Not with convicts firemouths and severums i hope!!!!! The dragon goby wont stand a chance of ever getting any food and will starve with those as tankmates,thats if the convicts dont beat it to death first.
Discus with those fish is not a good idea either,they need nice calm tank mates which allow them to take the lions share of the food.
A tank with those dimensions is roughly 100 uk gallons which after taking the rough adult size of a pair of each of those cichlids leaves you around 60" of fish length to play with,a good size plec like a gibby or common would be a good addition to clean up after the messy cichlids and a medium sized shoal fish like tiger barbs or giant danios to act as target fish for the cichlids aggression would also help.