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Get rid of all the other fish cept the tetras, and get 3 clown loaches!!!

[font color="#800080"]Do you know about cycling the tank first?
If so, and it is cycled, then heres your list:
"6 zebra danios (just bought these to test the water)
1 Pleco
1 glass cat
1 black tetra
1 white (?) tetra"

I would say go with this to start:
6 Danio
6 glass cat
1 Pleco
6 Black Tetra
6 White Tetra
Or you could trade in the white and black tetras and go for a large school of something completely different.
Schooling fish really need to be in schools.
Heres some other good combos too:
6 Danio
6 Glass Cat
1 Pleco
6 Yoyo Loaches or any other 4" or smaller loach (kuhli, zebra, queen, tiger, etc)
1 School of a colorful smaller schooler - White Clouds, Pristella Tetras, Glowlight Tetras, Neons, Black Neons, Cochus Blue Tetras, Rummynose Tetras, Lemon Tetras, Silvertip Tetras, Bloodfin Tetras, Harlequin Rasboras, Pencilfish, dwarf rainbow.... Say a school or 10-14 of these depending on which you pick.
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6 Glass Cat
1 PLeco
6 Black Tetras
6 Glowlight Tetra
4 Yoyo Loaches

Are your tetras Black Skirt and White Skirt tetras?
Black tetra and white tetra are kinda generic and not very obvious as to species.

With a 55g tank, you could easily put around 60-65 inches of fish, and still be ok. As long as water changes are maintained and filtration is OK, you could keep a lot of different kinds of fish.
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DonnieBoy

I certainly would keep away from Clown Loaches as they like to be in schools as well. I have no trouble with them but also I have had many years experience in Aqu keeping.

I think your tank could be a bit too small when they get a little older.

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Welcome to FP DonnieBoy

What Noodles is trying to say is that the tetras and glass cats really need to live in groups. They will be much happier and healthier that way.

Also I wouldn't recommend clown loaches at this stage - they can be quite e to ich, also do better in groups and eventually need a very large tank. As you'll see from a lot of posts on this site, there are many people fighting ich in their clown loaches and unfortunately they don't always win

So for now, fill out your tetra schools and maybe plan to have loaches, puffers or other hard-to-keep fish a little further down the track.



Last edited by whetu at 11-Nov-2004 01:00

6 zebra danios (just bought these to test the water)
1 Pleco
6 glass cat
6 black tetra
6 white (?) tetra

And with that, you're probably fully stocked, if not OS.