pls review my finalized stocklist - rainbows, roan?

gagaliya

GNOME POWER!
Nov 20, 2005
943
0
16
NJ
www.happyreward.com
i will be ordering everything from Tanner today if this looks ok. Tank is 36x15x20 50 gallon. What do you guys think? thanks!


6x Melanotaenia parva Flame, mixed sex
6x Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi, mix sex
6x Corydoras Paleatus cory cat
28x cherry red shrimp
-------------
(those are in my current biorb, i can return them to lfs if not compatible)
4x whitecloud
6x zebra danio
-----------------
 
Nice deep tank :D

Hrm. The parva's okay, but I wouldn't add a school of herbies to that. They run 4-4.75" and are very deep bodied. There's also the added chance that the herbies will pick on the parvas. Sometimes large adults will get like that with smaller species and there is going to be quite a size difference between your fish.

I currently have my parva with my duboulayi (6") and they get along fine, but they are in a 75g and it's temporary until the 45g is set up.

IMO stick with fish that get to ~3", or just go with the herbies and no others.

Also, when you buy a lot of six from Tanner, he's not going to ship you six fish unless they are "larger" ones and that's all he has. He usually ships 8-9 fish, so you could end up with 16 bows in that tank. Going to be pretty crowded, especially when they get older.

M2C
Roan
 
AquariaCentral.com