New 24 foot tank...need stocking advice

[Blaker]

Good choices but I can't imagine cories surviving. I think I have it narrowed down to a couple of catfish, knife fish, silver or black arowanas, 5 or 6 different, large (relatively peaceful) cichlids, bichirs, giant gourami and a small school of tinfoil barbs or silver dollars.

Any thoughts on this mix?

 

[ROSS]

being you have a reception area , taking you deal with joe public I would recomend public friendly fish . A SWARM OF VARIOUS TETRA'S , you could have a hundred fish in that tank .it would be like a cloud of motion ,at least 5 differant school's of 20 fish each ..

 

[bmxer4ever]

Good choices but I can't imagine cories surviving. I think I have it narrowed down to a couple of catfish, knife fish, silver or black arowanas, 5 or 6 different, large (relatively peaceful) cichlids, bichirs, giant gourami and a small school of tinfoil barbs or silver dollars.

Any thoughts on this mix?

Sounding good.... If you drop the bichirs, you can go completely SA community. What type of cichlids are you thinking? Something colourful?
How long has your tank been cycling, and what have you been using to cycle it....
That's a lot of water to filter!

 

[Blaker]

Start cycling next week.....using filter media from another tank and ammonia I think. Yes, big colorful cichlids. Not sure which ones (I like Jaguars but they may be too aggressive).

 

[dacox]

Sounding good.... If you drop the bichirs, you can go completely SA community. What type of cichlids are you thinking? Something colourful?
How long has your tank been cycling, and what have you been using to cycle it....
That's a lot of water to filter!

Tinfoil barbs and giant gouramis are both from Asia. I'd go for a SA community though.

 

[bmxer4ever]

Tinfoil barbs and giant gouramis are both from Asia. I'd go for a SA community though.

Yeah...I knew after I posted that I'd gone too fast and someone would pick up on my mistake! Hope he goes for geophagus surinamensis as big cichlids, think they look great and should work well in a community.

 

[Blaker]

Nice pic. Lotsa people say not to mix South American and Asian fish. Is this for a good reason or just because it isn't natural?

 

[FishSkins]

all i know is that tank is sooooooooooooooooo cool i can think of many thing i would do

 

[kman]

that giant gourami will be trouble later on

 

[Lupin]

Nice pic. Lotsa people say not to mix South American and Asian fish. Is this for a good reason or just because it isn't natural?

Different requirements like their requirements and behavior should be taken in consideration. It's just too unnatural when you mix species of different origin.

Good luck wuith the choices though.