I'm a newbie here and have a question

pacersfan09

pacersfan09

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I am suddenly interested in getting a freshwater aquarium and went to petsmart to buy a book and i read the book and started to go looking for aquariums to buy and i am thinking i want a 29 gallon tank. I was wondering how many fish i can comfortably fit in the tank
fish i would like to include:
guppies, danios, platys, rosy barb, gourami, clown loach, clown plecostomus, and maybe angelfish
 
the loach and pleco will get pretty big, and i think the loaches prefer to be with several of its own kind.
the guppies and maybe the gourami will nip at the angelfish, so that wouldn't be a good combo.
 
well angelfish and clown loaches will get too big/need to be in groups too large to be in a 29 gallon tank.

so if we take them out, here's my recommendation:
1 male dwarf gourami
8 danios
8 rosy barbs (is this the same as a cherry barb?)
1 clown pleco (i could be wrong but i think this is a fairly small species)

you could have cory cats in place of the pleco maybe. (you need a group of at least 6, so they'd have to be the varieties that don't get very big)


notice i didn't include guppies and platys, this is for one, because i personally don't like them (i have had several of each)
and also because in my experience, platys are finicky (especially the dwarf varietys, which seem to always be going wrong) and guppies are only interesting when in large groups of both sexes... which means they'll have babies, which means you'll either have to find a home for the babies or hope they get eaten.
 
ThePBM said:
the loach and pleco will get pretty big, and i think the loaches prefer to be with several of its own kind.
the guppies and maybe the gourami will nip at the angelfish, so that wouldn't be a good combo.
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well i just a read a book that only one loach is good and im not sure if im going to put all those in
im thinking mostly about this:
5 guppies
5 danios
2 dwarf gouramis
1 flying fox
5 rosy barbs
1 leopard corydoras

can i put more in or not?
 
One of my first tanks was a 29 pf & I still have in in my sons room & love it.

HOWEVER, were I to do it all over again I'd choose the longer 30 rather than the 29 high tank.

JMOpinion



OH BY THE WAY,....nice that your first move was to read a book on how to best start out!
^5

LJx
 
i would not keep less than 6 corydoras together.
or less than 6 of the danios
or less than 6 of the barbs
and with all of those other fish i dont think there would be enough room for the flying fox.

you could try 5 guppies,5danios,5barbs,5corys, and 2 dwarf gouramis.. but I personally would get rid of one of those types of fish so that i can have larger groups of the other types.
 
lovejonesx said:
One of my first tanks was a 29 pf & I still have in in my sons room & love it.

HOWEVER, were I to do it all over again I'd choose the longer 30 rather than the 29 high tank.

JMOpinion



OH BY THE WAY,....nice that your first move was to read a book on how to best start out!
^5

LJx
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yea i got really interested in having a fresh aquarium so i bought a book and read about good beginner fish and what to buy for the tank and how to maintain it i thought it would be best to know what im getting myslef into lol
 
silentskream said:
i would not keep less than 6 corydoras together.
or less than 6 of the danios
or less than 6 of the barbs
and with all of those other fish i dont think there would be enough room for the flying fox.

you could try 5 guppies,5danios,5barbs,5corys, and 2 dwarf gouramis.. but I personally would get rid of one of those types of fish so that i can have larger groups of the other types.
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is it worth the extra 40 $ to get a 55g tank
 
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