How do you think of this tank stock?

[phreeflow]

If you must keep that goldfish and want it temperate or cooler consider some of these:

rosy barbs
Buenos Aires tetra
Blood fin tetras
dojo loach
Giant danios
Apistogramma borelli
Corydoras paleatus

if you can ditch the goldfish, a small group of

gymnogeophagus
Roseline barbs
Filament barbs
Mascara barbs

 

[esoxlucius]

Goddamn, I wish fish research was as easy as researching Hitler.

I never thought I'd ever see that...."Hitler" and "fish research" in the same sentence, lol.

 

[Hybridfish7]

If i’m Not mistaken I know someone with T.asfraci. Also t.asfraci is not only available in America. Oldmate could be in Europe or Panama for all I know.

I am aware they aren't only available in America, the ones recently imported came from the UK, but the fact that he's trying to put them with the aforementioned list of fish in an imperial standard tank screams America.

 

[Hybridfish7]

What I'm sad about is that what I've feared has been confirmed: to get any good information on fish I'll have to talk to people who've had experience raising these fish, which means I have to talk to you smug ****s who get off on correcting others.

Welcome to the bottom of the iceberg

 

[latapy10]

I never thought I'd ever see that...."Hitler" and "fish research" in the same sentence, lol.

This type of aquarist should go to the doctor....

 

[Backfromthedead]

Man, research on fish is just so hard. Its way different than getting information about Hitler or dogs. Just as I feared, all those months of hard work accumulating bullcrap information on the internet got flushed down as soon as I talked to people who see through that bullcrap. There's just so much conflicting information about fish on the internet. I'm not sad because I found out almost everything about fish on the internet is bs, because I actually already knew that. I knew realistically, those feeding time videos on YouTube featuring a tiny glass box containing an arowana, oscar, Jaguar, red tailed catfish, knife fish, turtles, stingrays, an arapaima and a goddamn partridge in a pear tree would be a disaster in the long run. But it just looked so damn cool, and there was just an itching thought in my head that was like "maybe he had a really good filter" or "maybe there's a secret method to raise fish so they won't be aggressive" and especially "maybe those fish aren't actually aggressive in the first place, and those stories of oscars ripping up their tankmates were just popular LIES that everyone regurgitates over and over like it's gospel, despite never having owned one"
I mean, c'mon, how do you know what's right or wrong when you cant trust any of your sources? Okay, so i still knew deep down I was just trying to make myself believe what I wanted to be true so I can justify having an awesome tiny glass box with monster fish just like those people on YouTube and not feel like an ass. I guess today my attempts to convince myself was actually starting to work, because it got to a point i was confident enough to tell you guys what I wanted to do. Damn, I got snapped back into reality fast. On top of that you guys debunked other things that i genuinely believed.
I'm not sad that what I knew was bullcrap, turned out to be...well, bullcrap. I'm also not sad that I wrong on the things I actually thought was true.
What I'm sad about is that what I've feared has been confirmed: to get any good information on fish I'll have to talk to people who've had experience raising these fish, which means I have to talk to you smug ****s who get off on correcting others.
Goddamn, I wish fish research was as easy as researching Hitler.

You did a good thing researching this beforehand. Saved yourself a lot of hassle and work and time in learning this stuff here instead of firsthand.

Yeah there are some meanies here. What can you expect? Were not a bunch of happy-go-lucky dog lovers here, we're MFKers lol

 

[Something Fishy Here]

Glad you're still here and still reading. So let's see if we can help you come up with a plan instead of just knocking down your ideas. If you want a more crowded tank in a 75 then consider african cichlids. Rift lake cichlids are still "aggressive" but are kept in larger numbers to control aggression, a tactic that doesn't work with american cihlids. If you're wanting american cichlids then stick to the more peaceful ones if you want more than 1 fish, the smaller severums like rotkeil might work, eartheaters, blue acara, apistos.

If you want a catfish or 2, stick to the smaller ones that stay in the 6 to 8 inch range, like pictus cats or some varieties of synodontis, though not all stay small, or certain plecos like bristlenose, but again not all, many can grow over 18 inches. You mentioned ancient looking predatory fish too, the Hujeta gar seemed to interest you, you could also consider a senegal or delhezi bichir, which stay smaller, or one of the smaller spiny eels like a peacock eel or yellow tail eel or zigzag eel, but not a tiretrack or fire eel in a 75.

Just some thoughts to get you rolling in the right direction, again you can't keep all of these together. Pick some of your favorites and search threads on here about them, ask specific questions about what keeping them is like and how they behave in real life. Best of luck, I look forward to seeing what you do.

 

[duanes]

One other thing that's important in choosing stock, is the type of "tap water" you have.

Is your tap water soft, with low pH, (7 or below)?
If so, smallish South American , or Asian species might be your best bet.

Is your tap water neutral (right around 7) , slightly hard, here is your most diverse option?
Many S Americans (especially from west of the Andes), west Africans, and many Asian fish will work

Or is your tap water hard, with elevated pH (7.5 and up)?
With this type water, rift lake Africans (as suggested above) and small Central Americans are good bets.
With this hard, high pH water "however"
Amazonian S americans are not good choices.

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

TheTerminutter

Got to admit it was fun on your end dreaming of what fish fit your style / taste and playing around musical chairs what would fit well here and there. I used to have fun doing this for hours keeping me entertained (before Facebook/internet really existed)

Got to add on to what people have experienced with those species, it wont always be available when you want a certain fish either, some of us have to wait months or years before certain species are available. The fish species you mentioned is usually available though but sometimes planning dows not always go to our timeline

 

[TheTerminutter]

One other thing that's important in choosing stock, is the type of "tap water" you have.

Is your tap water soft, with low pH, (7 or below)?
If so, smallish South American , or Asian species might be your best bet.

Is your tap water neutral (right around 7) , slightly hard, here is your most diverse option?
Many S Americans (especially from west of the Andes), west Africans, and many Asian fish will work

Or is your tap water hard, with elevated pH (7.5 and up)?
With this type water, rift lake Africans (as suggested above) and small Central Americans are good bets.
With this hard, high pH water "however"
Amazonian S americans are not good choices.

The water's pretty hard, with a ph of 7.6, because it's sourced from Lake Michigan