Tank

[x-Twinkle-x]

As some of you might have read from the buy & sell part of the forum, I am moving, so am having to re-home my fish and sell my tanks. The only tank that I can keep is 24"length X 18"depth X 12" & at the moment it houses 2 (very) small golden nugget plecs, a small albino plec, & a baby Sydontis catfish. Since I have managed to rehome most of my fish, and move others to other tanks for the time being.
My question is first, how do I work out how many gallons/litres this tank is? Also, what shall I stock it with? I was thinking one large(ish) fish, but dont really think there would be enough room, and also I am going to plant it, so I want something that wont destoy all my plants =]
I have been trying to find something that is sort of unusual, but not too hard to keep, and something that looks nice. So far, I havnt had much luck trying to find anything.

Thanks in advance
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P.S - I know it sounds bad; *I'm moving, so have sold fish, but am now looking to buy more*... but I wont be buying these new fish until we have settled properly so it wont be straight away, & the reason I have sold my other fish is because I cannot take them with me obviously, and this tank was always a sort of spare tank anyway, but as its the only 1 I can take with me I thought I would think of something to put it in!!

EDIT: Forgot to say that catfish will be moved elsewhere soon!!

 

[x-Twinkle-x]

Maybe some angels.....??

 

[BigIan]

Well you do know that tank is going to get VERY over crowded with 3 plecs in there unless you re-home them when they get bigger.

As for a nice feature fish in such a small tank, some of the dwarf goramis are very strking although finding healthy specimins can be hard.
some apistogramma would also be a lively addition they colour up lovely when they hit adulthood

 

[x-Twinkle-x]

Thanks, yeah I am going to move the plecs lol it wouldnt be fair to keep them in there!!
I have kept gouramis in the past; I might think about them again, but in the mean time I will research apistogramma and see if I like them lol =]

Thanks again
xx

 

[BigIan]

no problems

and the tank is way to small for angels.

they would be having there feelers trailing on the substrate all the time

 

[JamieBailie]

The tank is 16 UK Gallons, 72.7 Litres

 

[demonmagus]

if you take all out you could look into some dwarf snakeheads?

 

[x-Twinkle-x]

Thanks for the replies =]
This may sound stupid, but if I got a shoal of maybe 20 cardinal tetras, would the cats eat them? =[

 

[J4MES]

im afraid that 20 would be to many. 8 would be a better number.

J4MES

 

[x-Twinkle-x]

Ok, 20 was just a random number lol, so if I got 7-8 cardinals, the cats that I have wouldnt eat them?

 

[chibi]

The synos won't eat your tetras.

 

[x-Twinkle-x]

Ok thanks!!

 

[jayjay]

Depends on the syno. and the size of it.... Is the albino plec a common or a BN? I'd say if you got rid of all the fish you have in there now, something like a snakehead or a puffer would be a good fish for the tank.