My 'sort of' plan...

[Red Tailed Wonder]

my future 45G

Decor
Heavily planted, bogwood, plenty of caves.

Fish
20 corys, 15 lemon tetras, shrimp, red tailed shark, 3 Zebra pleco, 2 pictus,1Three spot gourami.

hows that?

 

[Web Gazelle]

Don't Pictus get pretty big? I think that school of 20 Corys will be fun and the Lemon Tetras are a nice mid level schooling fish.

 

[Red Tailed Wonder]

I would think the pictus would ok.
Ye 20 corys! that will be fun, might have a few mummys!

 

[Web Gazelle]

There is a good chance you will. I got 4 Pandas a while back and I lucked out getting 2 male and 2 female. After almost every water change I did, those guys were doing their thing. I was never able to save a baby because they were in my live bearing tank. A tank I have switched to a Rasbora tank.

 

[RockabillyChick]

drop the pictus and you should be fine. pictus get about 6 inches and are predators. i think they would be very happy eating the cories. also, why do you want 20 cories??? that's a lot......

 

[Roan Art]

You have too many fish for the bottom of a tank with a very small foot print. 45g tanks are 36x12, that's not big enough for all those cories, a shark, shrimp and plecos. If you want a lot of bottom dwellers, get something that is 36x18.

Further, if you can afford to buy 2 zebra plecos, then you can afford to buy a bigger tank. MUCH bigger.

Roan

 

[RockabillyChick]

no kidding roan! zebra plecs are like $250 each... i could setup a whole tank for that.

 

[Red Tailed Wonder]

are they heckaslike!

£10!

get real!

why so many cories? 1 wanna have a go at breeding them 2 the more the merrier!

 

[Red Tailed Wonder]

roan lets not forget its a corner tank...

about 5 square feet.

 

[RockabillyChick]

for £10 i highly doubt they are true zebra plecos. there are some pleco species that look very similar but are not the same thing. TRUE zebra plecos are extremely rare and difficult to breed. in the US they average $250

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