rescuing fish from neglect- help me do this right

[ambrosiamonkey]

So my office has a fishtank. Apparently, in a cost-cutting measure, they canceled the maintenance, and were just waiting for the fish to die off. (!) I don't know exactly how long the poor little guys have been neglected, but the tank they were in was nasty.

By the time I learned of this, there were only two fish left. I've brought them home and I'm acclimating them to the water in my quarantine tank as I write this.

I'm planning on keeping them quarantined for at least 2 or 3 weeks, but before I add them to my regular tank I want to make sure they will play nicely with my other fish. I have a 50 gallon tank with 4 dwarf neon rainbows, 2 clown loaches, one swordtail, a pair of otocinclus and a small pleco.

The two rescued fish are a boesemani rainbow and a redtail botia loach. I'm not worried about the rainbow; I think he'll be fine. Will the redtail botia loach get along with the fish I already have, or do I need to try to find another home for him? The redtail botia is about 4 inches long; the pair of clown loaches I have are about 3.5 inches long. The pleco is fully grown- I've had it for nearly four years, and it's still just about 4.5 inches long.

Is my 50 gallon big enough for all this? Any suggestions or advice would be welcome.

 

[Sully]

Here is a link to a photo. http://loaches.com/species_pages/schistura_subfusca.html . I think you are talking about the Schistura subfusca. It is a very peaceful fish. fine substrate required--but since you have the two clowns in an existing tank it should not be an issue.

Long term you will need a tank larger than the 55 for the clowns. they do get rather large.

 

[ambrosiamonkey]

Actually, what I have appears to be botia modesta. It seems botia modesta goes by a lot of different common names, sorry for the confusion. I'd try posting a picture, but he's hiding out in the bit of t-shaped PVC piping I have as a shelter in the quarantine tank. He doesn't bother the rainbow at all.