New big tank

[silentcircuit]

Generally, one pleco to a tank. They may be fine in something that big though -- each just stake out his own part of the world.

As others have said, a Black Ghost Knife will eat just about everything you listed. Were it me I'd return all the barbs and tetras and look in to cool big fish most people can't keep due to size constraints like the Black Ghost Knife, etc. You can keep mollys and tetras in a 20G, or even a 10G. Who knows though, it might be neat to have a ton of them in a 210, I'm just having trouble visualizing and am salivating at the potential with all the water volume.

 

[Sandz]

I am of the same opinion that if you have a tank that big, why would you stock it with ordinary fish? The BGK will even eventually outgrow that 210 and is a constant preditor as aformentioned. If it was me, I would be doing a discus tank. Other thoughts could be a large rainbow tank with multiple colors and schools, a SA cichlid tank with Geophagus and Sevrums, maybe an oddball tank or even a Peacock tank.

 

[cicrush13]

Denison barbs....get lots of them with some syno petricola and some cool pleco. Add a few gouramis for a splash of color and maybe another small school of large congo tetras and viola!

 

[londonloco]

Mineralized Top Soil capped with Black Flourite for plants with pressurized CO2. With that high a tank, I'd go South American, Angel fish for sure....

 

[babablackman]

discus, would be awesome, two problems, price. two, they are to difficult for me to take care of

 

[kiddevo]

Pictures?

 

[babablackman]

the only pictures i have are on my phone so i cant upload

 

[ty_s]

imo and from adding substrate to a tank with water in it. you want to drain all your water and then place in substrate you will have a 210 gallon glas box of nothing but dusty water. then do ahttp://albertaaquatica.com/index.php?showtopic=702 fish less cycle on your tank you can plant like mad and skip the cycle all together or even do a dry start and grow your plants emersed takes a bit of time though. co2 is the only way to go and it is not hard to do $200-400 should cover it. for substrate look in to the SEACHEM products.
hear is a link on a dry start http://albertaaquatica.com/index.php?showtopic=32885

adding substrate to a full tank can mess with your cycle as well.
thats just my 2 cents
btw sorry for posting to other forum it has been my home and i new were to find the links

 

[ty_s]

the only pictures i have are on my phone so i cant upload

to get photos off a cell phone type in your email addy babablackman@newbefishkeper.com were you would put in the number to send a text and it will send it to your email

 

[trigiver01]

If I were you, I'd go with a really big school of smallish fish... like rasboras, or rummynose tetras (my favorite). You could have a centerpiece fish (or 3) like angels or gouramis. And obviously a ridiculously large school of cories with some bristlenose plecos. I don't really know anything about royal plecs, but I seem to remember reading that you don't see them very often. All of the other fish that you've listed seem like they'd be ok. I personally wouldn't get the knifefish.

Agree - I love schools of bright, smaller fish!