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Good heavens I have n't been here in ages! hope everyone is well and at least a few of you remember me.

Due to lots of personal stuff I haven't really spent an awful lot of time on my fish recently but now I have the oportunity to sort them out and have decided,

I want a new fish tank!

who doesn't....

this is the current stock of my 25G -it is very badly over stocked. due to everything that has happened over the last year I condensed two tanks, and rescued some fish too, so I have,

three Keyhole cichlids
four guppies
four mollies
two cherry barbs
two plecos (I know that is a disaster one was homeless)
two clown loaches (equally homeless)

How big - Gallon wise a tank should I get to stock these fish? I know they aren't entirely compatible and am working on a home for one of the plecos at the very least.

I can possibly set a 12G but not really sure who I would put in there.

so how big??



thanks and its nice to be back!

GFG



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i know what you mean, i havent been back for ages.

Anyway, with out the bottom guys your probably fine in the 25 gallon.

The bottom guys probably would like a 125 gallon.

its up to you, go with two tanks or go with one.

like get a large tank like the 125 and add all of the fishes.

Or keep the bottoms in a large tank, and keep your other guys where they are. in the larger tank you can do other things like increase the CL school etc...

Just have fun with it

bettachris Wrote:

Anyway, with out the bottom guys your probably fine in the 25 gallon.

The bottom guys probably would like a 125 gallon.

thats not entirely true, it depends on what type of pleco you have, im guessing there commons, and they as im sure you know get rather large, and i would have to agree that a 125+ would be a good tank size. I also want to add that i hope you have very heavy filtration on your 25 gallon. I know that not everyone can afford a 125+ gallon tank (i sure cant right now) so what i would do is get a tank you can afford and stock it to where your fish are comfortable.

Hello Betta chris - good to see you!


what about this as a tank?

http://www.seapets.co.uk/product-details/stkcode/660083/master/660084/category/1214.html

I think its lovely and its about as big as I can go in the space I have. so what would i have to get rid of to have this tnak? not that I really want to get rid of my fish exactly - I mean re home etc.

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone

Hello Cucumber slices!

I am not sure what kind of plecos one was a rescue, as were the clown loaches. the orginal one my pleco is dark brown with gold spots....? the rescue does look like a common tho.

The 25G is cycled and heavily planted, got two internal Fluval filters.

*goes off to day dream about owning an 125G*


cheers!

GFGXX

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone