Community/schooling/peaceful tank (unheated)

[jaws7777]

So I have an empty 75 gal and was thinking of what to do with it.

Id like to do either a peaceful community or some sort of schooling species. The tank is going to be temperate/unheated. Room temp would probably be somewhere between 65 and 78.

The possibilities are peppered corys, zebra danios, buenos ares tetra, flagfish, Rosy barbs, Danio margaritatus (celestial pearl danio) and mascara/filament Barb's.

20 danio margaritatus and some corys would be cool. Also like red ceibals but do want to do more of a small schooling peaceful scheme.

What would you guys stock it with ? Remember has to be able to live in cooler waters.

 

[tlindsey]

So I have an empty 75 gal and was thinking of what to do with it.

Id like to do either a peaceful community or some sort of schooling species. The tank is going to be temperate/unheated. Room temp would probably be somewhere between 65 and 78.

The possibilities are peppered corys, zebra danios, buenos ares tetra, flagfish, Rosy barbs, Danio margaritatus (celestial pearl danio) and mascara/filament Barb's.

20 danio margaritatus and some corys would be cool. Also like red ceibals but do want to do more of a small schooling peaceful scheme.

What would you guys stock it with ? Remember has to be able to live in cooler waters.

Have you considered White Cloud Mountain Minnows

 

[Gill Blue]

What do you mean cooler waters? My native tank gets down to 48 in the winter, and I don't see any fish on your list that I'd try that with.

 

[Hendre]

I'd say try for a native tank if you can, many of us underestimate local biodiversity and it makes for a nice biotope project as well if you're into that.

Otherwise, a lot of South American fish come from cooler waters, I'd look into those too
duanes

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Add a golden weather loach to your list.
Most of the fish mentioned should work, but I have to mention studfish and fallfish,the latter of which would eat smaller fishes,other fish to consider are your darters such as orangethroat and green sided darters.

 

[jaws7777]

What do you mean cooler waters? My native tank gets down to 48 in the winter, and I don't see any fish on your list that I'd try that with.

Temp was mentioned in the op.

65 to 78. Unheated

 

[jaws7777]

Thx for the suggestions guys. I'm gonna stay out of it for a while. I'd like to see what you all come up with

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Just curious if you would want to do a planted tank? If that sounds like something you want to try, then I would get about 30 cardinal tetras and about 15-20 cories of some type.

If you’re not into the planted tank, then I would get about a dozen giant danios and maybe 8-10 of a larger size cory.

 

[duanes]

Being a one trick (cichlid) pony, my choice for an unheated, small, peaceful community would be a geographically correct Uruguayan tank with a quartet of Gymnogeophagus (1 male 3 females), a shoal of Buenos Aires Tetras, and some Uruguayan corys (such as erhardti)
Gymno quilero

or Gymno sp Paso Pache

Corydorus erhardti

This type community has been one of my favorite tanks.

 

[jaws7777]

Yes I'd like to go with live plants. Nothing fancy. Water lettuce, Java moss, maybe some pennywort. I wanna do allot of 2 or 3 plants instead a Mish mosh of many different plants.

I like the idea of going with 2 species but larger numbers of each. Infact when I first thought of this the initial plan was 20 to 25 Danio margaritatus and a group of corys.