126 litre stocking

[labrakitty]

I am setting up a 126 litre tank, and I have a stocking idea:
2 lace gouramis
2 bolivian rams
6 panda corys
6 cardinal tetras
6 rummy nose tetras
Would this be ok? Do you have any comments?

thanks,

Labrakitty ;)

[NotCalebSherida]

if i did the conversion right, that's 30 USg... i'm going to go out on a limb and say that the more experienced people will say that's overstocking and to go with either gouramis or rams and either cardinal or rummy noses...

I'd skip gouramis or maybe just get one, skip rams, keep 6 cories and like 15 cardinal tetras... and maybe plant your tank

[amosf]

I'd tend to suggest the tetras are okay with say 2 - 4 honey gourami and that would be close to fully stocked - with maybe a couple of small bottom feeders. you don't want to overcrowd the tank straight up anyway... The bigger pearl gourami might be okay in that tank as well, but only 2 of them with maybe the 12 tetra... And they can get nippy whereas the honey are more peaceful...

Then it really depends on how you are planning on cycling the tank... If you are doing a fishy cycle then you want to keep numbers down a bit and you will need to do 20% water changes a few times per week for the first month or so...

[labrakitty]

i am going to use gold fish to cycle the tank, and then t=give htem back and turn on the heater, then I will stock my tnak slowly. I am going wiht:
2 lace gouramis
2 bolivian rams
6 panda corys'
6 cardinal tetras
6 rummy nose tetras