38 Gallon Stocking?

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Wisegy84

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I am going to be moving soon and it will be too far to take the fish I currently have with me. I will be donating the fish to the my LFS before I leave. Once I get settled into the new house I want to set my tanks back up, but I am interested in other stocking options. I have a 38 Gallon and a 10 Gallon. I will likely do a betta and possibly a few pygmy cories in the 10 gallon. In the past I have mostly kept tetras and cories in the 38, but I have had platys, rainbow fish, guppies, and loaches. I am just curious what kind of options I have. For example, I am interested in an angelfish (likely just one due to the size of the tank, but I am not sure if this is OK). But if I go that route, what could I keep with the angel? Just cories? I am open to any suggestions, so feel free. Thanks very much in advance.
 
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For a 38g, I'd keep only one angelfish along with harlequin rasboras, kuhli loaches, corydoras, diamond tetras and Columbian tetras.
 
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An angel would be great! There are many fish that will compliment them. Some hachets maybe?
 
bluekrissyspike

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small tetras will become lunch to an angel once it grows. mine doesn't actually eat them but he/she kills them for fun..grr..
 
Wisegy84

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Thanks for the suggestions. Also, since I will probably end up going with a setup with an angel as the centerpiece, do angels do OK with sand? I was considering changing to sand instead of gravel after I move, but it isn't necessary. And what about cories and sand?

Thanks again!
 
noodles62

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Cories LOVE sand. Mine sift thru it all day...relatively easy to clean too - all the gunk stays on top where you can vac it up; unlike gravel where the gunk works its way all the down....Yuk!
 
noodles62

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BTW, red eye tetras are pretty large for a tetra, so no snackies for the angel! and they are also really pretty........
 
Riiz

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Or how about an African community, a pair of African butterfly cichlids and 8 Congo tetras looks really nice. And maybe a small african catfish for the bottom.

This is what I'm going with if I grab a 37gal in the next week or two. Or might even wait on getting a 40 breeder during petco's sale if I happen to wait.
 
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