Well, I'm restocking my 75 gallon. Right now it has a very large synodontis nigrita, 8 giant danios, 3 leopard danios (long fin), 2 zebra danios (long fin), and six platies. I know my mom wants to put about a dozen glofish, as well as 12 neons, and 12 black neons. Does anyone know any monsters I can put in there? It cannot eat the little fish. What about balas, silver dollars, distichodus, or tinfoil barbs? If the fish is peacedful but gets too big I guess I could eventually move it to my 125 gallon (4 blood parrots/ green severum pair/ single silver dollar). I also plan on adding a few various pleco species to grow out for my other assorted aquariums.
Peaceful Monsters
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It sounds like it'll be pretty well-stocked with just the additions your mom is planning. Most of the fish you mention get too large for this tank, and the problem with that is that even if they're normally fairly peaceful (SDs, for example, can be fin-nippers, but are otherwise okay), at their max size, they are capable of chowing down on a neon. I don't keep my SDs with small fish, but I know that when I feed frozen silversides to my gars, if the gars happen to miss one, the SDs are on it pretty quickly.
Your syno might pick off neons.. as when lights are out they tend to sleep around the bottom or hover around plants where danios kinda just float around the top.. and thats when your syno will be hunting. "very large" if it's mouth is big enough it will eat them in all liklyhood. as for other "gentle giants" I agree w/ the other commentors. if it'll fit in another fishs mouth it has a possability of being dinner. a juvi angel allowed to grow up in a tank of small fish has a possability of compatability.. if your danios aren't fin nippers.. I've met some nasty danios in my day. more then one and you chance a pair forming at maturity and a breeding pair can wipe out a tank full of peaceful fish given an opportunity sometimes. I'de stear clear of a veil angel even if the danios are relatively docile. But I have raised a gentle giant of an angel in the past in a 55 w/ neons, guppies, hatchets, ect. There was no other territorial species in the tank so my angel never learned really the need to "defend territory" and was well fed ect, so had no reason to harass it's tankmates. and was very docile even as a juvi. But an adult angel is perfectly capable of eating neons if struck it's fancy to do so.
Theoretically it is my tank, but my mom and dad both want colorful small fish. I have a 90 gallon planted right now with 2 black lace angelfish and four veilfin koi angelfish. The angels always nip at each other and the three small clown loaches that are in there never bother anything. But anyways, back to the 75 gallon. So no silver dollars. My syno has lived with other tiny fish before including neons, mosquito rasboras, guppies, and cherry barbs. No problems ever. But he has also lived with oscars, blood parrots, green severums, discus, african cichlids, bluegill, pretty much everything (he has survived multiple accidental tank wipeouts). A protochilodus would work? What about the distichodus? I could move it once it starts to get older.