Thanks everyone!
I'm sort-of a newbie - My dad always kept a 20 gallon when I was a kid it had a parade of goldfish and then mollies, gouramis and swords. I've had 5 and 10 gallons the last two years and currently keep 5 cardinal tetras and a cory in the 10 gal.
But I've made LOTS of a mistakes w/ fish tanks (one of my worst childhood memories involves accidently killing all the fish in our 20 tank when I was like 8 years old)
I found this forum while trying to figure out how to correctly cycle my new Oceanic 42 gallon hex!
I'm very excited. Had to convince my hubby.... :bowing: He' s trying to help me keep on track (writing my disseration). But I'd much rather procrastinate by picking out fish or cleaning. 
Anyways - So I've finally got a 42 hex w/ 3 danios and 3 guppies in it cycling (seeding from the other 10 gallon).
I've read through a couple fish/species web pages, drs. foster smith, & an older tropical fish book - but seen a lot of new names/species mentioned in the forums. So I was wondering what people really loved in their tanks and couldn't live without!
I know that I really like (and have kept):
Cardinal tetras
fancy guppies
dwarf Gouramis (but didn't live >1 year?)
Blue Ram (BEAUTIFUL - but he got aggressive and I gave him away, I think b/c he was lonely!)
I like the looks sound/of:
discus (won't work in my tank though- too small)
angels (?)
emporer tetras (the blue/purple ones )
rosey barbs
colorful mollies/platys
Red swords
harlequin rasboas
austrialian, celbes and Boseman's rainbow fish
killifish
colorful cichlids (won't work in a community tank though, especially a hex- right?)
loaches (the leapord or tiger looking ones - but won't work w/ blue rams- right?)
Don't know what the make up of my community tank should be yet...."still fishing".
I realize a lot of what I like won't fit in it - So I already wish I had a bigger tank! Or at least 2!
My husband's eventually going to kill me! How do you stop? it's a bit of an addiction, isn't it?
So THANKS for the favorites suggestions!
I'm sort-of a newbie - My dad always kept a 20 gallon when I was a kid it had a parade of goldfish and then mollies, gouramis and swords. I've had 5 and 10 gallons the last two years and currently keep 5 cardinal tetras and a cory in the 10 gal.
But I've made LOTS of a mistakes w/ fish tanks (one of my worst childhood memories involves accidently killing all the fish in our 20 tank when I was like 8 years old)
I found this forum while trying to figure out how to correctly cycle my new Oceanic 42 gallon hex!
I'm very excited. Had to convince my hubby.... :bowing: He' s trying to help me keep on track (writing my disseration). But I'd much rather procrastinate by picking out fish or cleaning. Anyways - So I've finally got a 42 hex w/ 3 danios and 3 guppies in it cycling (seeding from the other 10 gallon).
I've read through a couple fish/species web pages, drs. foster smith, & an older tropical fish book - but seen a lot of new names/species mentioned in the forums. So I was wondering what people really loved in their tanks and couldn't live without!
I know that I really like (and have kept):
Cardinal tetras
fancy guppies
dwarf Gouramis (but didn't live >1 year?)
Blue Ram (BEAUTIFUL - but he got aggressive and I gave him away, I think b/c he was lonely!)
I like the looks sound/of:
discus (won't work in my tank though- too small)
angels (?)
emporer tetras (the blue/purple ones )
rosey barbs
colorful mollies/platys
Red swords
harlequin rasboas
austrialian, celbes and Boseman's rainbow fish
killifish
colorful cichlids (won't work in a community tank though, especially a hex- right?)
loaches (the leapord or tiger looking ones - but won't work w/ blue rams- right?)
Don't know what the make up of my community tank should be yet...."still fishing".
I realize a lot of what I like won't fit in it - So I already wish I had a bigger tank! Or at least 2! My husband's eventually going to kill me! How do you stop? it's a bit of an addiction, isn't it?
So THANKS for the favorites suggestions!
