Am i overstocking?

[Lucas Kane]

Hey guys i was coming up with my final list for what will be in my 40gallon planted tank. here it is think you could look it all over for me and tell me if im overstoking/what you think?
As of now only the albino rainbow shark and Blue Gourami are in the tank the others i would be ordering

List:
1 Albino Rainbow shark

1 Blue Gourami

5 False Julii Corys

5 Elegans Corys

1 Black Veil Angel

1 Marble Veil Angel

1 Gold Veil Angel

3 Otos (Otocinclus Catfish)

1 Candy Stripe Pleco

Ok well thats the list tell me what you think

[wataugachicken]

i would pick one kind of cory or the other and just have a total of six instead of ten.

everything else looks okay, though i don't know how angels and gouramis get along, both species seem to have tempers.

how much research have you done on the rainbow shark? it looks like they might nibble on your plants. they like vegetable matter as well as meaty foods.

[Lucas Kane]

Really so thats to many cories then? i did not realize but then thats why i posted :D

Also idk about the rainbow shark eating the plants, he has been in there awhile and has not been a problem so far so i think he is ok :D

Thanks for the info wataugachicken.

Any1 else have any opinions on my stoking?

[TropicalNorth]

Rainbow Sharks won't eat your plants. Mine nibbles on them but he's just eating the algae. Personally I wouldn't keep a Rainbow Shark in anything less than a 50g. If you did keep him in a 40g I wouldn't put any bottom dwellers in with him or anything with long flowing fins (especially angelfish and gourami's). I'd leave him out.

3 of each species of cory would be good. Often different species of cories will school together (well mine do anyway).

[Marinemom]

I would not put angels and gourmais in the same tank togather especially if it a regular gourmai. You might get away with a dwarf gourmai. They occupy the same space in the tank and there is liable to be territory issues because of this. Also the gourmais can become downright mean and constantly harrass and nip at the angel and thier long fins.

Marinemom

[Cory Lover]

Hi,

I would cut the Albino Rainbow Shark and the Blue Gourami, and then get everything else on your list.

Cory Lover

[DaisyTattoo]

Rainbow sharks can get rather aggressive as they age, especially with small bottom dwellers such as cories. He would more than likely murder your cories before too long(I learned this the hard way with an albino rainbow shark and some panda cories). You also can't put them with any other torpedo shaped fish, such as loaches. I would find that guy a new home. I agree that you should omit the gourami as well. Other than that, you look fine.

[Star_Rider]

Angels... :eek:
I have a bunch of them part of the reason..my luck...I get three angels and i will get a pair out of it..
if that happens :eek: ;) angels can be very aggressiv when a pair forms ansd they are spawning..but you will have time to ..GET MORE TANKS :dance:

[Lucas Kane]

Thank you all for your help it was very informative I appreciate you all taking to time to help me :D

If the gourami wont go well with the angels I will have to lose the angels all together. any other fish you could recommend that would go well with my blue gourami in a 40gallon tank?

As for the rainbow shark he has been pretty happy in his new home I say new because he was my friends b4 and he had the rainbow shark, gourami, an cory in the same 20gallon tank. when he went to college I took over and gave them an upgrade when I saw them all crammed together like that. (used my old 40gallon SW tank)

anyway they have been living together for a long time and I have not had a problem so far thanks for the concern though :D the rainbow only seems to move when the cory accidentally swims into his space :P

[Yoemen]

Not my experience. But several post have been made on here about angels eating ottos and said ottos getting stuck in angel's mouths. Just a word of caution.

[jm1212]

i would be careful with any fish that is smaller than 2 inches (and is torpedo.slender shaped) with fully grown angels. they are cichlids and they will try to eat anything that will fit in their mouths.

cut the rainbow shark and the regular gourami. rainbow sharks can get pretty agressive and dont mix well with angels or corydoras. blue gouramis and the like IME kill everything that is smaller than they are and fight with anything that is the same size.

[Yoemen]

I thought it was red tails that were agressive and rainbows were fine as long as not other sharks were present.

[Lucas Kane]

Ok so any1 know anything i can put in with my blue gourami?

[jm1212]

the only fish that you can put with the gourmi are fish that are larger than it, which will be to big for your tank. otherwise it could become a bully and therefore kill everything in the tank

[NinjaPirate]

Full grown angels will eat ottos (not attempt to, will eat) and because of the spines on the otto's fins, it will end up with the angel's death more times than not. So generally speaking ottos and angels don't mix well.

[geekrockgirl85]

in our house, we currently have a female blue gourami living with rasboras, danios, gold barbs, otos, and siamese algae eaters. she has also tolerated the presence of shrimp and both khuli and yoyo loaches.

[Lucas Kane]

grrrr dang blue gourami is messing with my setup lol
but i don’t want to get rid of him he has been with me for along time.

Would any of these work:
Opaline Gourami
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=958
Gold Gourami
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=964

also any other ideas would be greatly appreciated im getting desperate lol

[jm1212]

dont mix them- males will fight just as aggressivly as paradise fish and bettas.

[k54x4guy_2007]

I have a 29 gallon with 2 opaline gouramis 1 male 1 female, 5 tiger barbs and 2 black skirt tetras. the opalines are gourmai's but they have not been very aggresive toward each other or other fish, they eat with the others and every once in a while you think its going to attack another fish but it just gets close to touch it with its "feelers", beautiful fish

oh also i got 1 clown pleco and 1 albino cory cat