What fish sould I get

[Mrsoftey2]

Please email me with your suggestions (cameronferguson@comcast.net) I currently only have 3 fish in fully operational aquarium. My last experince buying fish I belive I got to many to fast. Luckly there appered to be good water quality. So nobody at the petshops good tell me what was going wrong. I managed to keep 3 fish alive and well. They have been living in the tank by themselfs for about 2 months. I belive that it is time I got some more fish. I have currently in my tank 2 zebra danios and 1 albanio cory cat. My first choice was to get some guppies but don't know if they will work with the fishes I have. What fishes do you suggest?

[Dean]

Bump up the number of both to at least 6 of each to start. How big is your tank?

[Mrsoftey2]

20 gallon long with bio wheel filter

[Dean]

Both the danios and cories are schooling fish. You could go with a school of 6 small tetra, or a Dwarf gourami.

[Mrsoftey2]

Any suggestion on the plant life or fake plants i should keep in my tank??

[Mrsoftey2]

and or decoration. right now I do not have an airator put have been thinking of getting one. is this a good idea and if so what kind of airator? Any brands you could suggest and how noisy it is would be much appreaciated

[Dean]

if your going with live plants an airator is a bad idea, drives co2 out. Real plants take alot more $$$. It looks nice if your willing to spend the cash. If not silk plants look almost as good as real.

[Dean]

airators are not necessary.

[mtdewlover]

tetras, swordtails, mollies. I have a 29 with black skirted tetras, danios, a huge pleco, and cories. They all get along fine. Red eyed tetras, albino tetras, black skirted, any of them. Mollies are my favorite but they are brackish never mind. Sword tails are good but the rare ones like velvet swordtails are more sensative to water and such.

[Mrsoftey2]

How many of each??
for 20 gallon long?

[Mrsoftey2]

I still cann't decied what fish to get but i defenitly appreciate all the advice i got. By the way i thought about some mollies, guppies, and swordtails. I know they are bw fish but they can live in fw. What do you think



Thxs again

[Aquarius0015]

There is a huge debate about livebearers being BW or FW, but they can survive superbly in FW. If the LFS keeps them in BW then it might take a while to change them over to FW. Just add less and less salt with every water change and soon you will have happy, healthy livebearers. There is a great article online about this, anyone remember the URL?

[Mrsoftey2]

Then it is a good thing the petstore keeps them in FW. Thxs for the advice