125 angel fish planning

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Crazy mike

Crazy mike

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Since my Managuense decided to eat some things I'm turning the 125 into a angel fish tank. Here's what I'm thinking
6-7 angel fish
1 severum
4-5 pictus pims.
My questions are
1. Is that a safe number of angel fish to have in a 125, if so how many can safely and comfortably be housed in a 125 ?
2. What's a good middle level schooling fish?
3. Could they live with just driftwood and rocks or should plants be added?
4. If I lower the number of angels can I house any other medium to small sized cichlids with them? ( no discus)
Any suggestion or advice from people who have larger peaceful communities is welcome.
This will be my first time doing peaceful on a tank of this size.

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1. What kind of angels are you doing? Number would be lower if you want huge wild altums opposed to say p. Scalare
2. I love rummynose tetras but they tend to be lower level. There are a million kinds of tetras, pick your color just stay away from notorious fin nippers or anything too small
3.sure you can have angels without plants but why? Ever seen takeshi amano's altum tank?
4. Sure just remember angels are a cichlid and will try to challenge and fight but arent any good. They arent very fast or agile and usually get torn up by most cichlids. Dwarf cichlids go great aswell as peaceful ones. Maybe geophagus?
 
I wouldn't go more than 8 angels if youre planning other fish as well. I had bad luck with sevs & angels - sevs beat them up, but I've seen other folks house them together.

Driftwood & rocks is fine. Wild angel habitat is not really packed with plants, just a few here and there. If I plant angel tanks, I just have a couple vals and some floaters.

As for other cichlids - acaras, laetacara, rams, apistos, guinacara...basically anything around 5in or less and fairly peaceful. Red head tap geos may work too.
 
Here was my initial plan get that angels first and allow them to settle and put on some size before adding any other cichlid such as the sev or should they be added at the same time?

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Also are there any gourami species that would work in this tank?

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You can definitely try sevs, I had poor luck with it, but many folks do fine. If I tried it again, I would go with adult angels & very small sevs 1-2in & let them grow up in the tank around the angels.

Any kind of gourami will work fine. Kissing gouramis get a little large, but all of the smaller gouramis will be fine.
 
I've had no problem with severums and angelfish for over 2 years now, but I did add the sevs as juveniles, about 1.5", with adult angels so maybe that helped.
 
Ok here's what I have for stocking as of now
5-6 P.Scalare angel fish
3-4 Three Spot Gourami or snakeskin gourami if I can find them 1 severum
5-7 pictus pims
10-12 black skirt tetra
And maybe a rainbow cichlid or a pair if they wouldn't cause an issue.
Does this sound like a solid plan? Any group need to be increased or decreased to keep the peace?

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I think rainbow cichlids would be fine, I think you are fine with the numbers on everything as well. Not sure if snakeskin gouramis are that into each other though tbh, the three spot should be fine...or moonlight...or pearls (pearls are way under rated)

Although without the gourami I think everything else you want is amazonian so maybe stick to that theme and feel? But that's more a style thing than anything and its your tank lol

You might be able to get away with more black skirts as well....maybe do 20 to start with
 
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