Well little late but no worries as I got both (rainbows + tetras) I skipped on cories due tot he sheer amount of bottom activity already.
I ordered from Gunpowder Aquatics and Snookn21(freshwatertropicalonline). Both shipments are set to arrive Friday, being shipped overnight Thursday.
Total stock arriving:
12 x 2.5" asst rainbow fish
12 x 2 bleeding heart tetra
25 x 1.5" black neon tetras
6 x 2" blue acara
8 x 2" heckelii
12 x 2.5" redhead tapajos
L178(redfin speckled)(6")
Albino LF BN
L075 yellow spot pleco
Should have plenty to watch grow out and a decent selection to thin out with. Final thinned out stock after they grow out should look gorgeous.
Your dithers numbers are great. Your plecos are going to be poop machines, so I would eventually take one or two out once they all hit about 6". The heckelii and acaras will start eating those tetras though once they put on some size.
Your cichlids are incredibly overstocked (I know you plan to thin the herds a bit). Blue acaras will get nasty once they pair up. They will damage and destroy anything they can get ahold of that gets near their fry/eggs. Heckelii get big (8-10") and eight of them will take up that entire 125 and then some at full grown sizes. Their conspecifics can be very high as well, so keeping them in groups of less than four is not ideal unless keeping a single. The geos are going to be super cramped with twelve of them. And they are slow growers who might get killed off by the faster growing acaras when it starts to feel crowded in there.
Ideally here are a few recommended end stocks for full grown fish:
Recommendation #1:
- a pair of acaras
- four heckelii
- all dithers and drop 1-2 plecos
Recommendation #2:
- all acaras
- one heckelii
- all dithers and drop 1-2 plecos
Recommendation #3:
- 6-8 geos
- one heckelii
- all dithers and drop 1-2 plecos
Recommendation #4:
- one acara (two if you can accurately sex both as the same gender)
- one heckelii
- six geos
- all dithers and drop 1-2 plecos
These are just some of my recommended stockings based on my experience with all of the cichlids you currently have. If you have other tanks to move the extras to, that is great. The important things to remember is that the geos need a group of no less than four, and the heckelii need to be kept singly or in groups of four or more since a group of 2-3 will eventually kill each other off.
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