Next Fish Ideas

Brendan88

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In my tank at the moment I have platys, mollys, a fighter fish, black widows, sucking loach, snail, two long see-through fishes and two small frogs. They all seem to get on great but I did have a blue german chiclid (I think it was called) but it kept going for my fighter so I have gave him away im just after a nice small friendly fish to replace it.
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How big (capacity) is your tank and how many of each species do you currently have?

Also is your tank planted and what filter are you using and how long has the tank been set up.

These are all questions that are need to be answered before anyone can suggest fish stock :good:
 
I think it's a 50l tank it's a fluval it's not planted but got some fake plants and ornaments to hide in I have 4 mollies 6 platys 2 frong 2 see through 2 widows 1 fighter 1 snail 1 sucking loach. That might even be enough for my tank but I'm just trying to get a little advice. And the tank has been set up for about 5 months maby a lil longer
 
You are overstocked by some way now so do not add any more fish and do regular water changes.
 
Really ok might look to offload some. How do you work out when your over stocked? I always do my water changes so I havnt got a prob there
 
Stocking is a complicated art...but briefly, here's how we can tell you're overstocked.

A useful guideline (not a rule!) for stocking, if you have standard tropical fish, is 1cm of fish per two litres of water (or one inch of fish per gallon, if you prefer Imperial!). You always use the enentual adult size of the fish for your calculation, as fish need room to grow.

So, you have;

4 mollies at approx 8 cms each = 32 cms
6 platies at 3 cms each = 18cms
2 widow tetras at 6 cms each = 12 cms
2 'see through fish', which I'm guessing are glass catfish, 10 cms each = 20 cms
1 fighter at 5 cms = 5 cms
1 sucking loach at 30 cms (yes, really, that's how big they grow) = 30 cms

= 117 cms, when your tank should be holding around 25 or 30 cms.

Added to that some of your fish are shoalers and need to be kept in larger numbers; the glass cats in particular fare very badly if not in a large shoal of around 8 to 10 indiiduals, and the widows will very likely nip your fighter as they need to be in groups of six + to keep aggression to tank mates down. Plus the sucking loach won't even be able to turn around in a tank of that size once it gets anywhere near full grown.
 

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