Stocking a 29 gallon

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Batboi3000

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Hey Everyone! First post on the angelfish thread. Have loved cichlids for a long time, but have mostly kept bigger aggressive central American cichlids. Been a long time (like 10+ years at least) since I have tried a peaceful community tank and to say the least I'm a bit rusty. I have a 29 gallon planted tank I am trying to establish and just bought 3 little marble veil angels yesterday. They are barely bigger than a quarter, fins and all. I have 4 platy, 4 albino cory cats, and a male betta. I'm trying to make the tank kind of an Amazon biotope theme. I was wanting to add a few bleeding heart tetra too this week, say maybe 6 of them. Anyway... Just wondering how to best direct the stocking in a 29. I have read keeping just 3 angels is "dangerous" and I'm willing to take my chances so far. I did it before with 3 angels in a 27 gallon hexagon and that worked just fine. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

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When the angels get bigger, you'll have some aggression issues. You could keep a mated pair in a tank that size, but the 3rd wheel is going to get roughed up. If you want the tetras, I'd rehome the platys & you'll be fine bio wise. The betta should be fine for a while. The angels might tear it up when they get some size on them though - keep an eye on it.
 
Well interesting you say a 3rd wheel. I came home last night, looked in the tank and one of the angels was stuck to the filter intake. Don't know if it was aggression or what the deal was. I also bought 6 bleeding heart tetra yesterday afternoon. By the end of the night 2 of those were stuck on the filter intake with the angel not looking good. Now this morning, I don't know if any of the bleeding hearts are alive. There's at least 4 gone. The tetras looked like they were missing some scales and had some mildly tattered fins. Are platy that nippy? Do you think the platy did it to the tetras? Odd....
 
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Brown Water said:
Just set up tank or is it cycled?


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Been set up for a few months. Haven't had much but about 4-5 platy in it, but it's been set up for awhile. Been trying to plant it and have the sand in it since beginning of February.
 
I wouldn't think its the platys. LFS angels can be hit or miss, tetras too for that matter. I've had a few drop dead in QT tanks for no apparent reason.

Have you checked your water params? Thats where I would start.
 
Skittle said:
Is that a marineland 350?
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Yep... It is. Is it too much? It may be overkill on the 29 but it's what I got.


decoy50 said:
I wouldn't think its the platys. LFS angels can be hit or miss, tetras too for that matter. I've had a few drop dead in QT tanks for no apparent reason.

Have you checked your water params? Thats where I would start.
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I need to check the params. I don't want to get any more fish till I do. I wouldn't have thought it was the platy either. I mean they're platy.... The tetras did seem to be missing a few scales and their tales were a little tattered. There's a male betta in there too. But he never seems too bad. The tetra and the angels are both just about an inch long. Hardly full grown. I know the fish came from Seagrest farms and arrived at the store just Tuesday. I made sure I floated the fish for a good 20 minutes and slowly dripped some tank water into a water pitcher with the fish in the pitcher to try and acclimate them.... I never have had to do that with fish. I floated them and let them go. Keep the theories coming. I kind of wouldn't mind removing the platy anyway as they just don't fit the mold I'm going for.

Could throw the platy in with my red devil... :popcorn:
 
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