Stocking 21 gallon

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MichaelKD99

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So far I've be planning what I want for my 21 gallon for an extremely long time. I thought I wanted a nano fish tank, then a shell dweller tank, and last a Amazon or west African biotope. Ultimately after all of that "planning" for those themed tanks it finally hit me. Why don't I just ccombine all of my favorite fish and plants and try to make a aquascape. Now let's talk about the stocking, for the fish I'm planning on getting 1 African butterfly fish, 6 dwarf neon rainbow fish, 2 apistogramma, 7 sterbai corys, and about 10 cherry shrimp. For the plants I'm going to get Anubias
,Java moss or lilaeopsis
lilaeopsis,Amazon Sword
,Cryptocoryne beckettii
beckettii, Green tiger lotus
lotus, Java fern. I'm looking for all of your opinions
 

dudley

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What are the dimensions of your tank? The African butterfly fish would probably be too large for a 20G tank.
 

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Change the rainbows to tetras or danios, and get rid of the butterfly fish.
 

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It's 24x17x12. I thought an African butterfly fish could live in this size tank since it's Not really active and only gets 4 inches.
 

dudley

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Are those tank dimensions supposed to be 24" long x 12" wide x 17" high?

I think a minimum tank size would be 36" long x 15" wide though to allow more surface area for the fish to cruise around. I think they can get almost 5" when adult.
 

MichaelKD99

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Those are a little to small world a pair of golden wonders replace the African butterfly fish and add about 8 harlequin rasbora or von rio tetras
 

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If your stock is this:
2 golden wonder killifish
8 harlequin rasboras/von rio tetras
7 sterbai cories

Then it's fine.
 

MichaelKD99

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What about
2 honey gouramis
8 harlequin rasbora
2 apistogramma
7 stebai cories
I could do the school of micro fish if it allows me to keep the other 3 fish.
 
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