What do you think of these fish in a 55G

1 pair Siamese Fighting Fish -either ONE male OR three or four females.
Its best to not mix sexes in a community tank.
Bettas are fine in big tanks but be careful if your LFS keeps them in tiny
containers as they may be rather unfit when first introduced. A breeding net
makes a good training area.
1 pair Kribs
- not ideal with smaller fish. Try apistogrammas, laetacaras or Rams
instead.
1 pair Swordtails 1 pair Guppies -
These prefer much harder water than your other choices so I wouldn't have
them.
6 Cory Jullii
-fine
3 Clown Loaches
- fine but the tank need to be mature & they will get big but take some time
doing so.
12 small Tetras (still have to determine which ones)
fine but I'd suggest 2 groups of 6 to give interest at different levels. If
you get pentazona barbs your clowns will school with them.
6-12 algae eaters (SAE and/or Ottos)
3 SAE or 5-6 otos or both.
bunch of ghost shrimp (maybe) bunch of malaysian trumpet snails
-both lunch for clown loaches.
P.S. If I actually have room for more, I was thinking of adding 4-6 zebra
danios.
-put these in first!
Sue

"Sue" wrote in message
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1 pair Siamese Fighting Fish -either ONE male OR three or four females.
Its best to not mix sexes in a community tank.

Just out of curiosity, but why do you say that?

SNIP

1 pair Swordtails 1 pair Guppies -
These prefer much harder water than your other choices so I wouldn't have
them.

According to fishprofiles.com all of the fish (except the livebearers) are
OK in 5-19dH water. The livebearers are ok in 10-20dH. My water is around
7-8dH, which I'm hoping is going to be ok for the Guppies & Swordtails
especially since I used to have guppies many years ago in the same 7-8dH
water and they did really good (or at least they bred like crazy).

SNIP
Sue


Thanks for the input,
Harry




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If you're referring to bettas, sue is right... the male will be the living
$hit out of the female if/when he decides to mate.... it's not advisable to
put a male and female betta in the same tank without removing the female
after the male builds the bubble nest and she does her thing....

if you're talking about chinese algae eaters, then YGIAGAM (your guess is as
good as mine)

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"Harry Muscle" wrote in message
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"Sue" wrote in message
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1 pair Siamese Fighting Fish -either ONE male OR three or four
females.
Its best to not mix sexes in a community tank.

Just out of curiosity, but why do you say that?

SNIP

1 pair Swordtails 1 pair Guppies -
These prefer much harder water than your other choices so I wouldn't
have
them.

According to fishprofiles.com all of the fish (except the livebearers) are
OK in 5-19dH water. The livebearers are ok in 10-20dH. My water is
around
7-8dH, which I'm hoping is going to be ok for the Guppies & Swordtails
especially since I used to have guppies many years ago in the same 7-8dH
water and they did really good (or at least they bred like crazy).

SNIP
Sue


Thanks for the input,
Harry




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