fish compatibility

[fishpoor]

I"m going to be setting up a 75 gallon tank soon to finally relieve my chronic overstocking problem. Right now, dispersed in a 10,12, and 55 gallon I have
2 angelfish
3 turquoise rainbows
5 dwarf rainbows
3 serpae tetras
9 rasbora espei
2 bristlenose plecos
1 common (?) pleco 15"
2 clown loaches
2 horsefaced loaches
2 yoyo loaches
7 botia straita (zebra loaches)
1 botia modesta
3 spotted raphaels
8 panda cories
2 anistrus (?) cories
1 albino cory
3 kuhlie loaches
2 glo danios
My 12 gallon is a nano tank, heavily planted. The other tanks have a few plants each. I want to "plant" one of the 2 larger tanks, probably the 50 gallon,assuming the pleco goes into the 75.
My question? what would be the best combination of the above fish in these tanks?

 

[snakeskinner]

the angelfish could go either way, just depends on the fish. As far as the others, I think you're a little catfish/loach heavy. I havn't kept many of those besides the pleco's but I don't think catfish generally get along when forced together in a small area like a fish tank and I think many loaches and botia's follow the same rule. the rainbows would surely like the 55 or the 75 and the rasbora's will do just fine with them as well. the serpae's can be a little nippy and they can be a little shy, just depends on the tankmates. More serpae's might help alleviate both or let them be in the 10 or 12 along with maybe the danio's. You might want to repost over at the catfish/bottom feeder forum and see if you get better response on the other fish unless someone else chimes in here. Kyle

 

[biogirl361]

the angelfish and any of the peaceful tetras and rasboras should go in the planted tank, and you could put any of the bottom feeders that don't eat plants and aren't nippy to other fish in there with them. then you could put the plant eating bottom feeders and the nippyer fish in the non planted one. i don't have any experience with rainbows or any of the loaches, so you'd have to make that call based on your observations of their behavior (and what other people post). overall your fish all sound like they would be pretty compatible with each other no matter where you put them as long as you didn't put plecos with plants and as long as you spread all the bottom feeders out evenly between the two tanks.

 

[jspolley]

Just a note from my experience....tetras + Angelfish = midnight snacks. It might have been I had very hungry Angels, but they cleaned up a school of neon tetras I added for extra color.

So keep the Tetras away from the angels, as well as any other small fish that *might* be able to fit into their mouths (such as the Danios). It would just be a bad, bad situation....

Also, with that many different TYPES of loaches, you're gonna have a few problems...1...loaches love to hide, and you'd have to have a heck of a setup to provide ample cover for ALL those guys. 2, loaches love to be in groups...of their own kind. You mix them up (as I tried with a plecto and a pictus) it could not be good...I had to seperate the two of them out because of agression. 3. Unless you are planning on supplementing their diets, there is no way you could *possibly* be able to support that amount of loaches in one tank just off of detrius, algae, and left over food. From what I've gathered, you had one or two in each of your previous tanks...maybe that might be the best way to keep them, because that many in one tank would just be a mess....

I dunno, these are just my ideas, and what I've kinda discovered as I've worked thru these things (and watched customers work thru them). Let me know if this helps...

Jeremy