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So yea after maybe 7 posts on stocking and going through 5 tank sizes I finally have the one which I am going to use ordered. It is an acrylic 40 gallon with the dimensions of 36 by 15 by 16. Now I need to figure out my final stocking list. This is what I have and btw I have a canister which is rated for 250 gph and i am chucking 1 lieter of seachem prime in there as well as 3 sponges.

1. Crenecichla regani/compressiceps
1. Starlight bn pleco
6. Skunk or Sterbai corydoras
10. Pristella tetras or a tetra of that size
1. Keyhole or African Butterfly cichlid
1. Angle or small species of Festovum
(Maybe 1 Bolivian ram)
And I want to figure out a fish which burrows maybe a African Brown or Brown Ghost knife?

Also anyone recomend a whiter sand which is smaller in particle size.
 
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DMD123 said:
That is a nice footprint. Glad you were able to figure something out with the limitations of the old house.
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Thanks man it took a hell of a lot of convincing but it happened now to go out and build a stand.
(Oh and order another heater because mines to big)
 
That is a nice tank size, I ordered myself an acrylic 50 with the same footprint, just a little taller.
Your stock looks reasonable to me, though would be a little heavy if you included all those options. I wouldn't do the 4th cichlid. Might still be a little short for an angel or festivum, once you put sand in there, but probably do-able if your really into the idea.
Skip the African brown knife, tank won't be big enough. Kuhli loaches burrow, very cool little guys, like little eels. I'd recommend you get 3 of them.
 
Gourami Swami said:
That is a nice tank size, I ordered myself an acrylic 50 with the same footprint, just a little taller.
Your stock looks reasonable to me, though would be a little heavy if you included all those options. I wouldn't do the 4th cichlid. Might still be a little short for an angel or festivum, once you put sand in there, but probably do-able if your really into the idea.
Skip the African brown knife, tank won't be big enough. Kuhli loaches burrow, very cool little guys, like little eels. I'd recommend you get 3 of them.
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Thanks ill look into some kuhlis im still working around with the list my only 2 things I know I am having in there are the pleco and the C. Regani or another dwarf pike. I was thinking of having a blue acara or something else from the andinoacara or aequidens genus and something from the firemouth cichlid genus (I don't want to type it out) or instead of the firemouth genus a rainbow cichlid
 
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I might also go with one andinoacara stalsbergi because they max at 8" tops in captivity
With it I might put some dithers like corydoras and large tetras.
I prob will stick to my pike cichlid tank because I would feel like I would have to breed stalsbergi if I bought one.
 
Gourami Swami said:
Don't get a stalsbergi... too big for your tank, and very aggressive species. Wouldn't work as a pair or probably even with dithers.
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I guess I let me dreams get ahead of me because one of my dream tanks would be a stalsbergi biotope. I am thinking about going with a Cichlid from the firemouth genus and an Andinoacara Pulcher or Biseriatus (probably spelt this wrong) . Maybe a C.compressiceps if my budget allows it. Go with a school of 10 tetras and 6 corydoras with a ancistrus pleco or one of those dwarf ranger plecos which get less than 2 inches not the one which gets 30cm and that sounds like a good list to me

Edit: Maybe a lone salvini instead of one of the other cichlids.
 
I agree stalsbergi are awesome. I would love to have some as well one day.
I would leave the thoricthys and salvini out. Salvini are crazy aggressive, one would probably kill everything in a tank this size once it was mature. And thoricthys are like the geophagus of CA fish, they do much better in groups. This tank is a little small to do a group, maybe you could fit 4 of a smaller species, but then forget about the rest of the stock list.
If trying to keep different species of cichlid together in this tank, your best bet is to stick with dwarf species.
 
Aren't Crencichla large mouthed predators? Why is noone worried about them and the small tetras/cories?
 
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