Contemplating Tank Rescape and Re-arrange

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I have been contemplating swapping two of my tanks around and I have a few questions and a need for suggestions.

I currently have 8 silver angelfish, pterophyllum scalare, 4 clown loaches, two grow out bichirs and a raphael cat in a 146gal, L190cm x W45cm x H64cm tank.

I am thinking of moving the angels to another tank which measures L166cm x W45cm x H80cm, 160gal tank.

Once I have them in there I was thinking of making the stocklist:
8-10 angels, (hoping for 10 as the tank is focused around them)
4 most likely, maybe 6 geo altifrons,
10 silver hatchets,
2-4 other amazonian dwelling tankmates (want to find something unusaul, hopefully non cichlid)

Would these fish all do well in the proposed tank, I am only now thinking about it seriously and want to see if thereis something nice I can create.

Any comments or critism welcome.
 
The only thing I would worry about is if more than one angel pair breeds at the same time, sopposing you have one. There might be too much aggresion, but I'm fairly new to angels, so I could be wrong.
 
Thanks for the reply Tropical.

yeah, i have had a double pair of breeding angels in the current tank they are in and all was fine. The scalares are so 'tame' here that they don't get too aggressive at breeding and with 6 other angels and dithers like hatchets I feel it should be fine.

Also I am not looking at breeding, I am going purely for the asthetics. The conditions are not tampered with and the water here is not ideal for breeding angels. Though it does happen.
 
Well I could bump up the hatchets to say 14 or go with something else that stays at the top. But what I can't decide on is amazonian tankmates. Any suggestions?
 
cockroach;3473646; said:
Well I could bump up the hatchets to say 14 or go with something else that stays at the top. But what I can't decide on is amazonian tankmates. Any suggestions?
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Either way I don't see a problem with the numbers. Silver hatchets are decent sized tetras. I have 12 in a 7' tank and there quite noticable. The do tend to get lost in the huge group red eyes that also in there if the red eyes are chillin up top but they aren't always up there and the hatchets are.
 
Never had hatchets before so 1 or 3 questions.

I know all fish are jump, some more than others but are hatchets real jumpers? The tank should be peaceful (I hope).

I want the tank open on top, the part of the tank above the water is about 5cm. Would this help at all and would a current along the top of the tank help?
 
Hatchets are real jumpers. I once pumped into my aquarium during a water change, the lid was off, all the hatchets jump out and 5ft away from the tank, don't worry they all lived.
So be careful!
You will need a tight cover!!!!!
 
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