55 Gal Suggestions...please

For a nice schooling fish with great colour why not Boeseman's Rainbow, they should also hold their own with Tiger Barbs and how about either Kribensis or Apistogramma Cacutoides as your cichlid's. That is what I am in the process of setting up and I also might go for the Praecox rainbow or clown loaches. With that you should have plenty of movement in the Rainbows and the Tigers but also interesting behaviour in the cichlid and the loaches.

Kieran
 
Bala sharks and clown loaches are not suited to a 55 gallon tank. Also, schools of gouramis can be a poor choice as well as they are anabantids and can fight one another to the death. There are people that keep several gouramis in one tank but that should be considered the exception and not the norm, in my opinion. Gouramis make an excellent showfish and there are certain types not as aggressive as others, but there are no guarantees, of course.

Also, I would urge you not to purchase a fish that has been dyed. The dye fades over time and it is a cruel and inhumane practive, in my opinion, to dip a fish in an acid to remove the slime coat and then inject dyes with needles. By buying a fish treated that way, you support the practice by creating the demand.
 
Gambusia said:
A pair of angelfish could work too.
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Not in the long run, an adult pair of angels needs about a 70-80 gallon tank. The male will want to breed ALL the time and the female will only want to breed once every two weeks. She needs to space to escape his advances.

Blood parrots are a hybrid of the gold severum and the red devil. I urge you not to purchase these as they're a stain on the hobby and buying and keeping them only helps the idiots who created them in the first place.

I would go with a planted tank, and a pair of apistos (any species) or african dwarf cichlid (any species) and cories, as well as a few schools of dither fish.

Uaru's get very large and are not suitable for that small of a tank. They also eat pretty much everything they can fit into their mouths and are voracious plant eaters.
 
Can You Have Live Plants With Gravel As Substrate? I Already Have 60 Lbs Or Gravel In The 55 And Would Rather Not Take It All Out. I've Never Kept Live Plants Before
 
Also Could I Have Any Sort Of Crabs Or Lobsters With These Fish. Would They Bother The Corys? Sorry If These Questions Are Bad, I'm New To Community Fish.
 
csm84 said:
Also Could I Have Any Sort Of Crabs Or Lobsters With These Fish. Would They Bother The Corys? Sorry If These Questions Are Bad, I'm New To Community Fish.
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Gravel can work fine for many plants. Many plants pull their nutrients from the water column and not so much from the substrate. I only fertilize the water cloumn myself in my planted tank and it does better than I imagined a planted tank could. Most crabs and freshwater crayfish are not a good mix with fish, especially bottom-dwellers like cories. The Electric Blue Crayfish will eat anything it can get it's pincers on. Many crabs are the same way and to top it off, many crabs need a patch of dry land, which significantly reduces your tank's water volume. My advice is to stay away from those types of inverts. If you want, there are some interesting fresh water shrimp that can work in community tanks. Amano, ghost and cherry shrimp are fairly well regarded, for instance.
 
csm84 said:
Also Could I Have Any Sort Of Crabs Or Lobsters With These Fish. Would They Bother The Corys? Sorry If These Questions Are Bad, I'm New To Community Fish.
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Crabs are BW and Losbters are a no no for community tanks they eat small fish and YES they will bother your cories.
 
There are no freshwater lobsters. If you see a freshwater lobster it is probably a crayfish. Crayfish would quickly eat your corys.
 
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