is this stock ok for 180 gal ?

onepawnup

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ok i just bought a 180 with fish included according to the guy there are south american and african cichlids in here (i thought this was a no-no but everyone seems to get along ....some of the fish I am going to list he wasnt sure what they were so hopefully the experts here can help me out
ok here goes

4 tinfoil bards
4 blood parrots
2 green terrors
1 redtail shark
2 bristlenose plecos (one seems to be taking the move badly)
1 common pleco
1 yellow lab
1 julie
and heres a few im not sure if the names are correct
3 nickies ?
4 malawi eye biters
7 catfish ( looks like leopard spots to me on them )

questions
do any of these need more of there own kind
am I over/under stocked ?
ill ask about the filters in another post later
if not over stocked i would like to add a ropefish, 4 clown loaches and 2 pictus cats

Thanks
Onepawn
 
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Well, you certainly don't have to worry about being understocked. Your tinfoil barbs alone would probably be just about it for the midlevel of the tank when they're full grown. They can push 16" and are fast swimmers. A suggestion: Hang onto the tinfoils, sell off the rest of the inhabitants, and get the clown loaches you were thinking of to fill in the bottom of the water column.
 
Personally your getting a mix of hard-water fish and soft-water fish.

I would get either or, but not both together.
 
hmmm which are which ? hard /soft ? i looked some of them up but doesnt say anywhere that im looking
 
"Yellow lab", "julie", "malawi eye biters", and the "catfish ( looks like leopard spots to me on them)", are all hard water. Assuming the cats are synodontis.

All others are soft water.

Do not know what a "nickies" is.
 
Unless you are going to be messing with the hardness of the water to suit them one way or the other, why should it matter which ones you keep? Why would it matter if they were together? I think you should just get rid of the fish that are going to get to large. I wouldnt worry about the hardness of the water they prefer since you wont be adjusting that anyway.
 
jodimartin2003 said:
Unless you are going to be messing with the hardness of the water to suit them one way or the other, why should it matter which ones you keep? Why would it matter if they were together?
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Well, this is basicly true. When I use to have a So. Am tank and an African tank I use to put Dolmite and crushed coral in my African tank to keep PH and hardnest high. I live in an area where my water is really soft--Great for So. American fish. I TRY to keep fish under their natural environment. :)
 
my substrate is crushed coral according to the guy i got these from the fish needed a higher ph... i just looked up synodontis and those are not the catfish I have and havent been able to find nickies yet (thats what the guy said they were called )


onepawnup
 
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