200Gallon Gift and choose fish?

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ThePurpleLobster

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Recently my parents divorced, I'm 21 and I agreed to help remodel the house my dad won in the divorce, well surprise surprise I'm being given a 200gallon aquarium as some sort of I guess, token of appreciation? I've kept I up to a 120 maybe 129? Gallon salt setup but I had to get rid of it a few years back to help give me some money for hospital bills. Anyways, I decided I wanted to make this 200 a fresh water setup. So I have some questions to add to my research.

So I was hoping and wondering if these would all be okay together in a 200gallon fresh water setup? I was one some site liveaqua something and they had a chart thing? It showed these should all be fine together but I thought I'd ask a wide majority of people.

I wanted a blackmoore and black oranda in their too but I was told they don't mix with angels, discus etc and that they cause too much amonia.

I liked to add a few more species if possible though, I thought maybe a loach but I think there's one they don't get along with on that last list. So maybe anther pleco? L25 maybe? Feel free to suggest fish to add! Also plants too! I have time and a half to plan this I'm just ocd about knowing what's going in what before I do it.

1.Checkerboard Discus
2.Blue Diamond Discus
3.Snakeskin Discus
4.Ocean Green Discus
5.Red Turquoise Discus
6.Green Discus

7.Thomasi Pleco
8.Peppermint Pleco

9.Royal Farlowella Cat
10.Whiptail Cat
11.Striped Raphael Cat

12.Rope Fish

13.Koi Angelfish
14.Black angelfish
15. Marble Veil angelfish
16.Half Black angelfish
17.Black veil angelfish
 
If I where you I'd stay with all discus angels can become pretty aggressive and as far as plecos I've kept gold nugget plecos with discus with out problems I just kept them well feed and they where in a large tank but to be on the safe side I would stay away from plecos with the discus and maybe go with some nice Cory cats and then a shoaling tetra I find rummy nose tetras work best because even though neons and cardinals work great I found that some of my very large discus where eating them so I changed to all rummy nose tetras and I never encountered that problem again.. just my 2 cents


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I'd be surprised if the plecos were a real threat to the discus. And I've never kept angels but the idea of them being aggressive to discus seems unlikely? Again I've never kept them, but I guess from my MFK puffer-keeping perspective anything vaguely like that doesn't even show up on the scale of aggression! haha.
 
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