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Okay. . . . Well, I'm thinking about changing the stock in my 60 around. Again. Would this work?

12 neons
8 harlequin rasboras
5 khuli loaches
14 cories(4 peppered, 4 albino, the rest spotted)
6(?) ottos(got 6, they hide too well to figure out exactly how many I've got >_> )
no idea if the pleco is still with me or not, last time I rearranged the tank I didn't see him, so either he's still hiding someplace or he died and was eaten? He was a clown, so 4" tops
3 apple snails(one's kinda old, ready to kick the bucket, 2 are young and happy)
1 swords(male)
1 molly(the ones that I raised, don't want to give them away. . .also a male)
I think I have around 6 adult guppies? The 2 males, the 2 fancy females and the 2 "feeder" females.
and the fry, until some of them get big enough and I could find someone who wants them. Since it seems there isn't anything that could live With them and eat them but not the other fish, and I don't have the money to get a tank the size I'd need for a predator(or the time for one that could live in a smaller tank)

Also, the tank is pretty well planted. And has ramshorn, pond and MTS in it, though they're never abundant.

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Seperate the guppies and sure. Otherwise a couple feeder females and a male created enough fry to fill my 90g within a few months. You can't find homes for all of them and if you leave them in the tank until they start to develop color and people will want them they are already pregnant. Might even pop out a few dozen babies each by the time you net them out. Then your tank will be overstocked by alot. Better to grab the females now and any female babies you see until they are no longer giving birth in your tank. Keep the females in their own tank or find them a new home.

Righto. Also, would it be possible to add a ram(or pair of them) to that mix? I know most people say that they're pretty peaceful with other fish.

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If you only want fourteen corys in the tank, only go for one or two species (i.e. two groups of seven or one group of fourteen). Corys exhibit their best behavior when kept in large groups of the same species, and oftentimes when they are not kept in sufficient numbers they will become shy and/or inactive. "Spotted Corys" can refer to any number of species in the Julii-complex, the most common of which are C. trilineatus, C. schwartzi, and C. leucomelas. If you see a few different species mixed together (they often are), as the person at the store to pick out individuals from only one (or two) species.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Rams are indeed pretty peaceful with other fish; but keep in mind that (1) they are also delicate as hell, and (2) in order to have any reasonable chance of staying healthy, they require not only clean water, but distinctly warmer water than your average Tropical -- about 84 deg F (29 C.) Otherwise they're extremely vulnerable to internal bacterial infections.

Also, I'm uneasy about that Molly -- in order to stay healthy (and especially to fight off skin diseases), THEY require a fair amount of salt in the water, which might not go well with your Rams, Corydoras, Kuhliis, and maybe other soft-water fish.

Give my regards to Aragorn. (Oh, and tell him that if he really wants to live happily ever after, he'd better start considering the possibility that Sam didn't succeed in killing Shelob after all -- in which case, pretty soon she's going to come down out of those mountains with a serious case of the munchies.)

I disagree. Mollies have been bred for just as long in freshwater as other livebearers. Also there are wild mollies found in freshwater all the way to full marine conditions. They are extremely adaptable. So far I've seen no evidence they live longer with salt except a few individual claims. The people I know who have tested keeping them in different tanks with different salinities and those that have bred many generations in freshwater see no differences. The only time it impacts them is when you try to take them to a really different salinity such as mollies in freshwater at the lfs to full marine in order to cycle a saltwater tank.

Should I get another bunch of cories then? I've got the ones I'd had and they seem fine, and rarely ever are seen near each other. Plus I have one solo guy who I've never been able to find something near. The little spotty guy who's like an schwartzi(dunno the exact species) schools with the others that have his general colour scheme(I got 4 from petsmart for my 20 gallon and all the rest of them died within a week, since I couldn't find more of that species there I put him with my other ones. They're always moving around in the tank. And none seem stressed.

Also with the rams, I thought that the german ones were supposed to be picky and the other sort(ruby maybe?) was supposed to be somewhat more laid back as far as temps and water quality? Or am I thinking of another sort of fish?

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