38 Gal Suggestions if you can

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I have a 38 Gallon Aquarium cycled and I want to stock it one of two ways:

1. Community -- preferably something with tiger barbs

2. Just a single or pair of bigger fish. Green Severum look very attractive to me, info I saw listed min tank size at 30 gal. So don't know if I could get two in there.

My preffered way would be the severums, or a pair of kennyi cichlids. I need to figure out if the tank is too small though for pairs of them. If that can't work for me then a community wouldn't be so bad. I like tiger barbs alot, I know they are rowdy so I would be lost to find something to go with em. Could some type of cory be compatible? Any suggestions would be appreciated, also what kind of pleco or algae eaters would you use?

More info on the tank in case it helps. My ph is 7.5, hardness is 6. I don't plan to use live plants, right now I have silk plants in there, I would say there are light to moderately planted, ranging in heights so there are basically three levels of plants.

Okay, if you need any other info please ask, otherwise, thanks in advance for any suggestions I might recieve

AP
 
your tank will eventually become to small for a pair of sevrums, however, they are relatively slow growing fish. if you bought two juveniles they would be fine in that tank for over a year maybe longer. At that point you will have to get a bigger tank or trade them in.
 
Okay so I guess community it is. I get attached to all my pet's, even fish, so I will not want to part with the fish and right now I don't see myself with the space for a larger tank.

So with that said, I definately want a school of something, preferably tiger barbs, but maybe neon's. I would like to have a few cory's also, so what do you guys think is the best choice to mix with cory's? Also, I think i read in a post here somewhere that I will need a different sort of fish to keep the school together, like an intimidator or something, any idea's on that?


Thanks mkpeters, and anyone else who responds.

AP
 
There are pairs of cichlids you could keep besides severum. With a pair of small cichlids it would definately keep your school of barbs together with them nipping at them and such. You could try kribs. There are a couple of threads going right now in the cichlid forum.
 
Well I just got back from the lfs, and I decided to get a bristlnose pleco and came home with 10 Neon's. I wanted tb's but for some reason, the neons looked so nice to me in the display tank, now I am sort of regretting not grabbing the tiger barbs. Anyhow, what else could I throw with these guys, I want activity in my tank, and hope that the neons school.


Thanks,

AP
 
You could still go with the kribs or some apistos. I don't think the are big or fast enough to inflict any damage on a barb but maybe they might get a neon. Cichlids will be cichlids.;) But hey, if they eat the neons you can get the barbs.;)
 
I actually seen some kribs at the lfs today, they looked alot nicer in person than the photo's I have seen on the web. That is if I tagged them right, they were in a mixed tank with other stuff, but these looked like the photo's, just in the photo's I didn't really notice that they had quite a bit of irridescent scales, they looked very nice, AND they are on sale, 2.50 each till friday, is that a bargain?


Thanks,
AP
 
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