New 180ltr 100cm Tank, Stocking Ideas

Hi all,

As you will know I'm in the process of building up a planted Roma 200 (180ltr 100cm) (see my "Preparations for a Planted Tank" thread), and am now getting to the point of starting to cycle it.  Once that is done, my existing stock is to be moved from my old 64ltr tank.

Obviously there is a great deal more room in the new tank, so I can at last get more friends for the community. Having had a great amount of help using the ThinkFish Community Creator last year, I have used it again to see what additional fish I can put in.

Looking for opinions on my chosen fish and if there is likely to be any obvious issues.

First, here is my existing stock:-

Qty	Name	Profile
9	Amano (Japonica) Shrimp	link
5	White Cloud Mountain Minnow (Vietnamese)	link
5	Glowlight Tetra	link
5	Glowlight Danio	link

The Community Creator recommends 6 Glowlight Danio's, so I intend to grab another one.  Instead of simply growing the existing shoals I thought it would be nice to keep the shoals small, but to add different types. As I already had to buy smaller fish for the original 60cm tank, I'm keeping the fish size small to avoud further complications. So here are my planned additions.

Qty	Name	Profile
1	Glowlight Danio	link
5	Black Neon Tetra	link
5	Marbeled Hatchetfish	link
6	Cherry Barb	link
5	Blue Tetra	link
4	Golden Pencilfish	link
4	Penguin Tetra	link
4	Bleeding Heart Tetra	link
6	Panda Cory	link

Community Creator parameters:-
Length: 100cm
Volume: 180ltr
Filter Type: External

Max Stocking level: 288cm
0-1 months 20%: 57cm
1-3 months 40%: 115cm
3-6 months 60%: 172cm

Current stock level: 199cm
Stock percentage: 69%

Current water is 24^o, pH 7.5, 5^odKH

*edits*
Increased Cherry Barbs from 3 to 6, dropped Checkered Barbs to compensate.
Added Marbeled Hatchetfish, dropped Red Phantom Tetra to compensate.
Added Panda Cory, dropped Rosy Tetra to compensate.

Thanks Colin,

Yeah I kinda got stuck with a 24^o temperature as I'd got the Minnows without paying special attention to their preferred lower temperature.

Thanks for the tip on the Cherry Barbs, I'll increase to 6 and drop the Checkered Barbs from the list.

I located a video on YouTube for Marbled Hatchetfish, and I love 'em.  Very unusual, so I'm going to try and get some of those for sure.  So, off comes Red Phantom Tetra from my list.

I'll update post #1 when I'm done here.

I'm a bit reluctant on the catfish, given that my very nice pair of Oto's expired very quickly.  Panda Cory's do look pretty good though, and I do still have catfish pellets in my drawer that I bought for the Oto's (that they never ate).  Cory's are said to be a bit more on the delicate side, so I don't know yet. Cute though.

Cory's don't like nitrates over 20ppm and don't like sudden pH changes. If your LFS keeps them at a more than a few tenths different to yours then you might have trouble introducing them. However, you will have a spare tank that you could use as a quarentine tank and match it to the LFS water and slowly change it to yours while keeping an eye on them.

Mmm... sounds doable indeed.  Having a bit of a read on the Panda's and they sound far more resilient that the poor Oto's, and are not reclusive either.

Ok, I've added 6 to the bottom of my list, dropping the Rosy Tetra to compensate.

I think that's looking a lot better now. 

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Done it!

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Now all I have to is remember what I did 


Thank you both 

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