Rio 180 Stocking

[Chewie27]

The tank is 7 years old and it currently has

3x Hoplo's

In it. I'm hoping to add

10x Neon Tetras
5x Diamond Tetras
5x Rummy Nose Tetras
2x Bristlenose

Would this be okay stocking wise? Or could i have more Tetras?

 

[superman1]

from what i can tell u could add alot more to that tank. i would maybe double the tetras of one of the specias to have a nice shoal. .. but others may disagree

 

[Chewie27]

I might double the Rummys up to 10 if i can find them cheap enough! i'm not going to pay £3 per Rummynose which seems to be the price in Plymouth!

 

[Chewie27]

I've just bought

5 Harlequin Rasboras and 3 Scissortail Rasboras for the tank, might go for another 5 Harlequins and maybe ditch the tetra idea, and get a few more Scissortails.

 

[shroob]

Its my opinion that a large school of one type of fish is more impressive than 3 or 4 smaller schools. I'd keep to the harlequin and scissortail rasboras like you say, but increase both the harlequin as well as the scissortail numbers.

 

[GSD]

I would increase the harlequins, they look fantastic in large shoals.

 

[Chewie27]

They actually look more like false harlequin rasboras but they are pretty! I'll get another 5 next week! they were just under 2 quid each, not sure if that's a good price for them! the scissortails were £1.30 each

 

[Chewie27]

One of my lfs have white cloud minnows in for 50p each, would they get along with the rasboras?

 

[stang1]

White Cloud Mountain Minnows prefer sub tropical temperatures of about 18-22C.

 

[Chewie27]

Ah okay, that's a no go then!

 

[stang1]

How about Glowlight Tetras? Pretty little fish, inexpensive and very hardy.

 

[superman1]

How about Glowlight Tetras? Pretty little fish, inexpensive and very hardy.

the glow light tetras look great. ive got a shoal of 12 in my 180ltr.. look reat when the lights are quite dim.

 

[Chewie27]

Am considering glowlights to get tomorrow, lfs are doing 5 for £4.50!

 

[Chewie27]

Well this morning i came down to find only 3 false harlequins left in the tank, after moving many rocks, and plants, i look in the filter.. and yup, there is two of them happily swimming around in the filter! nutters.

 

[keenonfish]

I saw some new Neons recently something like headlight tetras (can't remember exact name) like Neons but smaller and they had intense blue / green reflective areas round the eyes. I had already set my mind on Cardinals otherwise would have got these!