Adding Fish. Suggestions?

Vix

Vix

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Hi all. Fairly new here. I presently have a 20T that I've had since March. I've made some mistakes like buying unnaturally colored Tetras and at first over feeding. I joined this forum and started reading a lot of the advice that is available here. I now have an aquarium that is healthy and clean. I perform weekly WCs and once every two months I clean the ornaments and the filter parts.
I now need some advice. I want to add more fish. I don't know what or how many. I currently have 1 Red Wag Platy, 1 German Blue Ram, 2 Honey Gouramis, 2 Dalmation Mollies, 2 Painted Tetras and 3 Red Tailed Rasboras.
Any advice would be welcomed.:)
 
Personally I think your tank is nearly full. If you get anything, get 3 more white skirt tetras and 2 more rasboras (havent heard of 'red tailed' before)
 
Dwarf Puffers said:
Personally I think your tank is nearly full. If you get anything, get 3 more white skirt tetras and 2 more rasboras (havent heard of 'red tailed' before)
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Sorry, just going by what my LFS said they were.
This is a pic of the fish.
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The only thing I would be tempted to add to your current stock level would be some of the pygmy sized corydoras (pygmaeus, hastatus or habrosus). They are active little guys that don't add much to your biological load. They do liven up the bottom of an otherwise top heavy tank.
 
I would get several more of those pretty Rasboras. Would not add much biolode and they would be happy and more entertaining in a bigger school.
 
Those are brilliant rasboras I also have a nice group of them. I'd add a few more of the brilliant rasboras perhaps 4 or so. I'm not a big fan of livebearers. If you could return the mollies and platy you could get some smaller/pygmy cories. I'd say around 5.
 
What do you people think if I return the 2 Mollies, 2 Tetras and the Platy? Maybe pick up 4 more Rasboras and 6 Pygmy Corys. Then I'll have 7 Rasboras, 6 Pygmy Corys, 2 Honey Gouramis and 1 German Blue Ram. Would that work and would they all get along?
 
You have plenty of room for them. I would even up the schools of rasboras and pygmies to 9 or 10. Or get 6 regular sized cories instead of pygmies. Either way sounds like a nice stocking.
 
Vix said:
What do you people think if I return the 2 Mollies, 2 Tetras and the Platy? Maybe pick up 4 more Rasboras and 6 Pygmy Corys. Then I'll have 7 Rasboras, 6 Pygmy Corys, 2 Honey Gouramis and 1 German Blue Ram. Would that work and would they all get along?
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That's exactly what I would do except probably I'd lose the Gouramis too and add 3 or 4 more rasboras. With some nice plants, this would look great.

I don't think there's enough space in a 20T for a ram and the Gouramis.
 
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