Mid/top water tankmates

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toehead11183

toehead11183

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I have a 120 with 20 sm clown loaches, 6 sa bumble bee cats, a brown hoplo and a 5" gold severum. I pulled my platies, cories
and tetras to another tank so i have alot of dead space. I was thinking some colorful yellow labs or other small cichlids. Any suggestions?
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Its got black sand and alot of driftwood so im looking for some color to brighten it up

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Yellow labs are fine if you provide them with rocks in addition to loach hide outs...Rainbow fish looks cool as well. I would go for dither type fish like rainbows than cichlids since cichlids also like to be hanging out near rocks etc...you'll still have dead space. I find that clowns hold their own, as long as there are not that big of a size differential...for instance 10 inch oscar with a 1.5 inch loach is a bad idea :)
 
i like rainbows but my ph stays around 6.5-7 and soft water. rainbows prefere the other way if i remember correctly
 
papawoody said:
nIo way he said it's a 120 so anyways ... +2 on rainbows , or maybe some spotted silver dollars .
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That was just a bad pacu joke. Ya, silver dollars, red hooks, spotted ones would be good mid. As for top, look into Apollo sharks or African butterfly fish. They just stay up top 99% of the time.
 
toehead11183 said:
i like rainbows but my ph stays around 6.5-7 and soft water. rainbows prefer the other way if i remember correctly
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They are pretty hardy fish. I'm quite certain they would be completely fine in your water. People put them in unheated ponds over the warmer months in the warmer month in the USA. Current, no current, warm, cold, aggressive tank mates, or community tank mates. Nothing much seems to phase them in my experience (except for being murdered or eaten obviously lol). I really like them and would recommend them to anyone.

Ideally you'll have clean, fast moving water and they appreciate real plants too. None of that is really truly needed though.
 
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