Please help me stock my new 90 gallon tank!!!!

[Thewood45]

Hi-

My first post on this forum, and I'm very excited to be here. Ive been a saltwater keeper for years, then gave that up a year ago. I have a 4 month african tank that is up and running, and doing great. I'm just about done cycling a 90 gallon tank running a Fluval 405, and a auquclear 110. Please stock this tank for me? At this time I have 12 tiger barbs and I would like to keep them as dithers. This is what I'm thinking, but I'm interested in hearing from all of you what you think would be the best.

I'm thinking:

12 tiger barbs
pair of JD
1 firemouth
1 Con.

thanks for everyones help in advance, but this is driving me nuts trying to stock this 90 gallon.

Eric

 

[Sarah88]

the FM might not be able to hang with a breeding pair of JDs and a con but you can just keep an eye on that, seems a tad on the high stocked side ones the JDs are full grown and you might have aggression issues with the pair but as long as you keep up with water changes and aggression doesnt become a problem that should be ok. personally if that were me i would do a carpintis pair with the tiger barbs and some pictus cats for the bottom

 

[bradleyagregg]

+1 for the carpintis, but scratch the pictus if you wanna keep any fry. jds are cool(they were my first cichlid that i ever bred and sparked this hobby for me) but they can be pretty skittish.

 

[Thewood45]

Its funny, I've been looking into this and doing a ton of research for weeks in other forums and NO one has recommended doing a carpintis and I have never heard of this fish (yeah I'm a noob)

 

[Stramn]

use your tiger barbs as dithers and run a pair of firemouths, and a pair of cons. it would be epic awesome when they spawn and go to war lol

 

[AcsFoolMike]

Its funny, I've been looking into this and doing a ton of research for weeks in other forums and NO one has recommended doing a carpintis and I have never heard of this fish (yeah I'm a noob)

Carpintis are commonly referred to as Green Texas or Blue Texas in LFS. They max out at a slightly smaller size than Cyanoguttatus, so I think a pair would work nicely in your tank. If you're not interested in them, look into a Salvini pair or perhaps even Centrarchus.

 

[Sarah88]

yeah like stated carpintis are commonly refferred in LFS as a Blue/Green texas if you can though i would suggest getting an actual locale variant if you have access to it or are willing to order, IMO vontehillos are the brightest, most beautful variant but the escondido variant is also what got me back into CA/SA cichlids in the first place, these are gorgeous fish if you are into the blues and very few pictures actually do them justice as they really dont show their true colors, i seriously regret getting rid of my nice juvie male H. carptintis vontehillo, here is a pic of him around 5-6in (but really not a good representation of his gorgeous blues)