BTW whats the diff between the angel species? and can u tell in very small, young fish? if so, how?
Just asking your guy's opinions and ideas
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Regardless of the circumstances, I would never recommend mixing tiger barbs and angelfish together. If you want barbs, cherry barbs, pentazonas and checker barbs are your best bets. The tetras you mentioned should work fine. Pictus might swallow the smaller tankmates. I'd rather stick with plecos and cories than anything else to be honest when it comes to community tanks.Footballref50;2668779; said:Im not set on tetras btw, i just said them as they are the most common kept community schooling fish. How about a large group of tiger barbs? Ive read that their aggression, if ud call it that, is minimal if not gone if they are kept in larger numbers? Im open to all suggestions i was thinking red eye tetras, pristilla tetras and rummynose tetras but im always changing my mind anyway! And what about a pictus cat or two instead of the cory cats?
Altums have brown bars, firmly erect fins and sharp indentation just above their eyes but these also account for high mortality rate during transport as all of these are wild-caught that they fetch rather high market value. The ones available in various color strains are Pterophyllum scalare. You might want to avoid the black strains as these are one of the most fragile strains to have. Start with golds, kois, zebras and marbles.Footballref50;2668781; said:BTW whats the diff between the angel species? and can u tell in very small, young fish? if so, how?
That's what ive noticed with the angels at my store. the black ones arent as hardy as the lighter ones. I want to get the silver/black striped one, one of the koi coloured ones and a "blushing" angel. Have you heard of that color type? and are they more finicky than others? I figured pictus wouldnt do well with the smaller fish....Ok so given all the info ive told ya give me an outlook on how many of each fish and what fish u personally would keep in my setup? I know im being annoying but im the person whod rather have another person choose for me than choose for myself......heck i didnt even want a community tank my dad talked me into it hehe! All i want in the end is my BIG tank filled with a TON of fish that are diverse, active and attractive in color. I have my own ideas but as i said i can never decide on anything so i just wanna know what you would do given the tank, and overall goal of the angel/community tank! And also scince i said my water is already super hard what else would i do to soften it up? or is it all that necesary?
Silver/black striped would be marble or zebra whatever the patterns are. I've had all the three strains you mentioned. I haven't had problems keeping blushing strains along with marble, zebra and koi. As far as hardness is concerned, you do not need to adjust it. A lot of fish suggested have been bred in the trade for decades so they are already adapted to various water conditions. I'd do angels along with a large group of 20 rummy nose tetras, 10 hatchets and 10 pencilfish. For bottom dwellers, try 15 corydoras. I'd suggest the trilineatus, sterbai, peppered or bronze. If you want plecos, you might want two L010a. Other options would be bristlenose, clown pleco, Sturisoma panamense, Farlowella gracilis or Rineloricaria parva.
