300 litre stock ideas

[AaronKWolfe]

Gulper catfish sounds good what also could live with it also can someone answer the previous 2 questions please

Nothing can really live with a gulper catfish unless it is significantly bigger than it. https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...-to-get-a-gulper-catfish.730163/#post-8236726

As for your previous two questions
1. A school of barbs, tetras, or similar fish would be a good community option. Could also go for some peacock or mbuna cichlids potentially.
2. I'm not too familiar with BGK, but I honestly think an 80 gallon might be a bit small for them as they can hit well over 16 inches. I'm not really sure if tankmates could go with a BGK in such a small tank, either. Others would probably have much better input than me, that's just what I think.

 

[Krismo962]

BGK grow very slowly once they hit 8-12".

 

[Plecostmus 1234]

Nothing can really live with a gulper catfish unless it is significantly bigger than it. https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...-to-get-a-gulper-catfish.730163/#post-8236726

As for your previous two questions
1. A school of barbs, tetras, or similar fish would be a good community option. Could also go for some peacock or mbuna cichlids potentially.
2. I'm not too familiar with BGK, but I honestly think an 80 gallon might be a bit small for them as they can hit well over 16 inches. I'm not really sure if tankmates could go with a BGK in such a small tank, either. Others would probably have much better input than me, that's just what I think.

For q1 what would be suitable with some parrot fish and for q2 it's a 120 gallon and bgk need 100 gallon so I've narrowed my list for that tabk down to
-1bgk
- 3 rope fish
- 10 silver dollars
- 1 common pleco
And could someone suggest another top level fish that occupy mainly the top to middle region

 

[Rocksor]

I still don't suggest adding Silver dollars to that group. They will starve out your other fish. You can try to spot feed the other fish, but the SD's will catch on.

 

[Plecostmus 1234]

I've seen different ways people do it and the 1 I liked was to feed the silver dollars And at the same time pit sinking food in a pvc pipe and once it has got to the bottom remove the pipe and then all the fish should be eating

 

[Deadeye]

Silvers are greedy, it might not work. Best to just get some kind of tetra instead.
Blood parrots can go with just about anything that won’t kill it. They are pretty crappy hunters.

 

[FJB]

Regardless of how you feed the silver dollars, 10 adult silver dollars of even the smaller varieties (some species of Metynnis) will make a tank of that size about fully stocked (and rather heavily), even with no other fish. Add to that hierarchical competition of males vying for females or just for dominance, and you will end with a not very desirable situation. Even with no other fish.
You have been given good suggestions but seem to want to come back to the same types of lists, which are unrealistic.
Need to make a choice - Get one or two largish aggressive fish (and little or nothing else), or get a community of smaller, peacefuland compatible and fish. In both cases you would end up with a very attractive and rewarding source of joy.

 

[Plecostmus 1234]

What about 8 firemouth chiclids then instead of silver dollars or could I just reduce the number of silvers

 

[Caveden]

For q1 what would be suitable with some parrot fish and for q2 it's a 120 gallon and bgk need 100 gallon so I've narrowed my list for that tabk down to
-1bgk
- 3 rope fish
- 10 silver dollars
- 1 common pleco
And could someone suggest another top level fish that occupy mainly the top to middle region

Why not change from common pleco to bristle nose pleco? They are smaller hence produce less bioload

 

[Deadeye]

What about 8 firemouth chiclids then instead of silver dollars or could I just reduce the number of silvers

Firemouths doesn’t solve the problem of bioload, if anything it increases it. And it leaves you with a group of 8 fish that want to kill each other (even though fires are more peaceful). Reducing silver count helps but doesn’t fix the other problems with the tank.