The answer to your what to put in it threads!!!

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Fire Eel
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I get so annoyed by the, "i got a fifty gallon tank, what should i put in it." threads that i thought i would make a single thread to answer it. if other people could chime in that would be great!

hopefully this will get pinned.

Photos and info on these fish will be helpful but i cant supple either.
Note: these do not include growouts as practically any fish can live in a growout tank for a short amount of time.
10 Gallon tank
Single apisto tank.
Pair of rams
Cardinal and neon tetras.
Shrimp
Otocinclus, trio.
Small cories.
Small gouramis.
Betta
Kuhli loach
live bearers.
Neolamprologus
killifish
Pencilfish
Pearl danio
Snails

20 Gallon tank

Larger apistos
Trio of rams.
Dwarf channa
Splash tetra
Small catfishs
Small africans such as demasoni.
community of tetras cories otos and rams.
Predatory characins.
gouramis
Taeniacara candidi
orange chromide

30-40 gallon flat.
Dwarf crenicichla
Tanganyika and mbuna
leaf fish
piranha
convicts
Keyhole
cupid cichlid

55 gallon tank
Severum
Possibly oscar
smaller pleco
bichers
pimellodella gracilis
festivum
gt
Acarichthys and geophagus.

75 gallon tank
Oscar
Green terror
Medium pike
pleco
School of earhteaters (geophagus, satanoperca, acaritchthys.)
apistos and dwarf pike
various characins
Dovii
Red devil
midas.

i could go on but i will stop here and let the others with experience do the rest;)
 
i dont think dovii should be in the 75G list, more like 180G. also the plecos vary so much in size that a max size could be added maybe? its just because a common pleco can hit like 2ft+ so a 75 is probably too small.

other than those points though well done. a damn fine post to a regularly asked question.:clap hopefully a future sticky.
 
Mudfrog;2467290; said:
Are these growout sizes? I see several fish that would not work for life in the specified size.
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he mentions at the top that it doesnt include growouts.
 
this would be a good thread, but some people are bias to some fish. such as, some people would like a huge group of neon's in a 300gal tank, some people would like monsters. It all depends on what type fish you want, what gets along with each other, water conditions, etc., I think, do research on the fish/fishes you want and adjust the tank to the fish.
 
haynchinook334;2467322; said:
this would be a good thread, but some people are bias to some fish. such as, some people would like a huge group of neon's in a 300gal tank, some people would like monsters. It all depends on what type fish you want, what gets along with each other, water conditions, etc., I think, do research on the fish/fishes you want and adjust the tank to the fish.
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i think the basis of this is to show what size fish can go in a certain tank size but the tank said fish is listed under would be a minimum for that fish. common sense dictates you can have a huge shoal in a 300g if you wanted. obviously small fish can go in a large tank but the point being a large fish cant go in a small tank.
its a basic guide to the size of a few types of fish which can go in to certain tank sizes.

lol i think we are all guilty of skimming at some point Mudfrog.
 
cichlid2006;2467267; said:
i dont think dovii should be in the 75G list, more like 180G. also the plecos vary so much in size that a max size could be added maybe? its just because a common pleco can hit like 2ft+ so a 75 is probably too small.

other than those points though well done. a damn fine post to a regularly asked question.:clap hopefully a future sticky.
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Thank you very much!!!!! i havent had all the fish etc and dont know much about them. hopefully someone who has other suggestions can post theirs and combine them i have never kept dovii so i have no clue about there keeping requirements. its simply meant to be a starting point.
chinook, mudfrog etc thanks a lot finnally i have made a half decent thread!!!
 
You have dwarf snakeheads for the 20g, but no dwarf puffers for the 10g? :nilly:

Nice job. That should help anyone with those annoying stocking questions.
 
looks good, except for a few previously mentioned and i wouldn't put something as aggressive as demasoni in something as small as a 20. but other than that pretty good start
 
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