90 Gallon Stocking

boulderman1

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i have interest in the following species:
-angels
-silver dollars
-bala sharks
-clown loaches
-boesemani rainbows
-red tail sharks
-rainbow sharks
-coulumbian sharks/catfish
-rummynose tetras
-neon tetras
-knife fish
-... and suggestions welcome

can any of these species go together in a 90 gallon tank, if so which combos and numbers

thanks a lot to anyone willing to help
 
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on the sharks and catfish, the only varieties that would fit in your tank would be the red tail or the rainbow sharks and I believe you can only keep one of them in a tank.

The columbian, Bala will both get too big and need to be kept in schools.

You could put a nice school of pictus cats in there though.
 
Yes lets say 5 picyus cats, 4 silver dollars, 10 rummynose tetras or 13 Neons.
Note if you have the silver dollars you CAN NOT plant the tank. I had A GORGEOS planted tank and i put a pair of them in and the tank was bare in hours.

OR you could do the knife fish. JUST the knife fish.
OR You could have like 20 neon tetras and a pair of Gouramies.
OR You could have like 20 Bumblebee gobys.

There are loads of optios!!
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Flagfish said:
Yes lets say 5 picyus cats, 4 silver dollars, 10 rummynose tetras or 13 Neons.

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I believe the Pictus will get aggressive as it gets bigger and eat anything small enough that it can. The Neons would probably start disappearing in the night.
 
yeah pictus(as well as any long wiskered catfish) will eat anything that will fit in their mouth.
 
no balas, they get to big for you to keep them in a good group

red tails and rainbows get agressive towards each other when they are older

columbian sharks are brackish i believe and the rest of the fish you want are freshwater

the clown loaches need to have a group of 5 at least to be happy, and that would be to many for your size tank. they would be good for a little whilt, but you would need a tank at least twice the size to fit them when they get full grown.

silver dollars would be great for your tank- not real plants though... you could get a shoal of 6 and some other fish and that would do nicely for this tank

if you have angels, NO NEONS, you could have a trio of angels and some silver dollars, unless you want tetras, and in that case you could have a larger school of diamonds, red eyes, bleeding hearts (heavily planted tanks (fake or real) work best for bleeding hearts), black skirts, lemons, and a few others.

if you choose angels, dont put rainbow with them. i dont have much experience with silver dollars and rainbows, so i do not know what would happen. a large school of boes. rainbows would look really good in your tank, and since they stay at about 4", you could fit qutie a few in there, perhaps 10-15. you might want to consider some dianos to go with them if you choose bose. rainbows, like gaint or larger zebra dainos

a large school of neons or rummynozes would look cool, or some of each, but no angels with neons! i think that the rainbows might out compete them for food since the rainbowas are so fast.

a knife fish would be fine BY ITSELF.

as for bottom feeders, you could have a good sized shoal of corydoras, or a trio of flagtail catfish, but good luck finding them, for in my area, they are like trying to find a needle in a haystack
 
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