So what would you stock a 40 gallon corner tank with?

How about a pair of angels? You would have a lot of choices for dithers that way- most tetra species work great with angels except for neons. Add a school of corys for your bottom feeders and you're set. If you want something different, order a pair of apistogramma from aquabid.com (I seriously doubt that Petco can get those for you). Apistos are South American dwarf cichlids, and even the largest apistos that I know of stay under 4 inches. Many apisto species are very colorful too. A pair of keyhole cichlids would be nice too, they are very gregarious and interesting to watch. Plus, they stay pretty small; 4.5 inches or less.
 
angels would be great!!!!
Im thinkin about maybe letting my parent choose a few fish
 
if you are gonna go with angels, get three of them. Angels can be agressive with one another, especialy in a tank that doenst have a big footprint like a corner 40g. You want three so that you will have a fish that is the boss, and devides his beatings between two fish. This way, no fish is picked on too much. More rarely, you will have a paper rock siscors relationship. Fish A beats up on Fish B, Fish B beats up on fish C, fish C beats up on fish A. You don't want one fish that is beating up only on another fish.
 
Daudzegier said:
if you are gonna go with angels, get three of them. Angels can be agressive with one another, especialy in a tank that doenst have a big footprint like a corner 40g. You want three so that you will have a fish that is the boss, and devides his beatings between two fish. This way, no fish is picked on too much. More rarely, you will have a paper rock siscors relationship. Fish A beats up on Fish B, Fish B beats up on fish C, fish C beats up on fish A. You don't want one fish that is beating up only on another fish.
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can you keep one angel without any other angels?
 
I would stock it with all kinds of dwarf and pygmy fish. So it would be something like...

12 pygmy cories
3 sparkling(pygmy) gouramis
12 neon dwarf rainbowfish
6 otocinclus(dwarf suckermouth catfish)
And then your swords, which would be the kings and queens of the tank.


If you haven't noticed, I'm kinda in a dwarf/pygmy fish stage right now.
 
Daudzegier said:
if you are gonna go with angels, get three of them. Angels can be agressive with one another, especialy in a tank that doenst have a big footprint like a corner 40g. You want three so that you will have a fish that is the boss, and devides his beatings between two fish. This way, no fish is picked on too much. More rarely, you will have a paper rock siscors relationship. Fish A beats up on Fish B, Fish B beats up on fish C, fish C beats up on fish A. You don't want one fish that is beating up only on another fish.
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...would I be right in saying that if you get a mating pair out of the three you want to remove the loner pretty quickly for his/her own sake ?
 
A lot less than what you think you could do to the limited surface area.
 
I think you could consider a pleco that stays small, like a bristlenose. A couple pencilfish, or a headstander. A ropefish is cool. The last two grow larger tho. Just some oddball ideas. Good luck!
 
Yes, you can keep an angel by itself. My angel seems perfectly happy that way.
 
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