100 gallon 5 ft tank stocking help!

[Acerbeast]

Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this is this correct thread, but I'm here anyway lol. I was just wondering how many neon tetras I could throw into my tank. It's a 5 ft 100 gallon tank, also any recommendations for live plants, particularly that are easy to keep would be great. The tank is already cycled and has been running for multiple months, probably 6 or more. I'm running an aqua clear 500, and a emperor 400 currently, I want a huge school! I had an ich outbreak that devastated my tank, so I'm looking to get it restocked. My current stock I would sell, really looking for 1 or 2 species of schooling fish!

 

[dr exum]

Got some buenas Aires tetras (25) in a 120 I have , they are pretty active and cool to watch feed, could probably get 20-30 in there? They were on sale for $1 ea at Petco/PetSmart?

 

[Acerbeast]

Got some buenas Aires tetras (25) in a 120 I have , they are pretty active and cool to watch feed, could probably get 20-30 in there? They were on sale for $1 ea at Petco/PetSmart?

So that would be the only fish I could keep? 25 -30 Buenos Aires tetras?

 

[Finthusiast]

Beautiful tank mate!

 

[Uglyknob]

Why not get cardinal tetras? Neon tetras are too small for a tank that size, IMO. Number of fish comes down to how much maintenance you want to do, how much you feed, how much of a water change you do... If you're nitrates are high, you have too much fish/not enough water change (unless you add plants, although I'm not sure how many you need to significantly knock down nitrates). If the nitrates stay low, you have room.

 

[dr exum]

I’ve got prolly 20 BA tetras, 5 angle fish, 4 silver dollars, few plecos, few loaches, two small catfish, and think that’s it... two emp 400’s , fx6, and big sponge filter.

probably over stocked, water is great though.

going to have a fish shuffle when new tanks arrive...

GL!