What Else Would You Add?

[Glenbo1981]

Tank is in my sig...

The tank is heavily planted.

What else would you add? more Bolivians? can't add anything that will eat the Rummys.

 

[jacko32]

what about some angels or bleading heart tetras or diamond tetras

 

[Wills]

Guinacara, Krobia, Geophagus Pindare or cupids I reckon the tank would take a group of any of those and it would look pretty awesome Maybe a pair of festivums for up top? Do you like headstanders? The smallest Annostomus - A. Ternetzi would probs work as would spotted headstanders but would avoid marbled etc would be a nice middle group non territorial and decent colour and interest about them.

 

[Glenbo1981]

Wouldnt the Severum pair rip up the Angels? the Rummys are pretty safe because they are as fast as danios

Guinacara, Krobia, Geophagus Pindare or cupids I reckon the tank would take a group of any of those and it would look pretty awesome Maybe a pair of festivums for up top? Do you like headstanders? The smallest Annostomus - A. Ternetzi would probs work as would spotted headstanders but would avoid marbled etc would be a nice middle group non territorial and decent colour and interest about them.

Lots of fish that are new to me there, will look into them

I love Festivums, my lfs always has big ones dirt cheap, i had a beautiful one for a few months that i lost in that tank disaster i had a few months back, still miss him now.

 

[snowflake311]

I like what wills suggestion.

What about some keyholes?

 

[Glenbo1981]

Have been thinking about them also, nice and cheap, will the Rots kill them when breeding tho?

 

[SBL]

How about a few spotted rapheals? They are small and, if given time, will come out during the day. Think they only grow 6", most likely 4"-5". Mine if pretty secluded but, I see him during the day jotting under plants and rocks on occasion. He's also only been in the tank for 4 days. Try spotted and if your Rotties manage to kill your rummies when breeding, get some striped. Make sure you get a deep bodied tetra like black skirts, diamond, red-eye, etc.

 

[snowflake311]

The rams could get killed too. When ever you have a breeding pair in a community you risk your other fish health.

 

[hamfist]

My initial thoughts were that 3 or 4 geophagus would be brilliant in there as a species mix, but I just don't think you quite have the tank size for them.

Wills suggestion of Geo. pindare is good though. I wasn't familiar with them, although apparently they only grow to about 6", so if you can get some, they would be superb.
If you went that route, be very careful though, there are many, many different species out there which are "surinamensis-like" (as are the pindare) and very, very few people can actually accurately tell the diffrence between them, especially when sub-adult.
It would be a pity to buy some labelled as pindare only to find that they were actually some other of the larger species.

For a more common suggestion, how about a blue acara or 4 or 5 Brochis splendens ?

 

[Davo86]

How about a group of Dwarf Chain Loach or Glass knives or some shoaling species that would occupy a higher level such as Emperor Tetras or one of the bigger pencilfish species like Nannostomus trifasciatus, or Marginatus

 

[jacko32]

how about 10 marbled hatchet fish