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tessa38uk
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Ok folks I have a tank that holds 42uk gallons which I believe is 50us gallons. It measures 120cm X 40cm X 40cm. At the moment it houses platys, mollie, tetras and guppies but I want to move them to a smaller tank as I feel the bigger tank is wasted on them. Now I have had blue rainbows before and enjoyed the immensely so I was thinking 6 blue rainbow fish, 6 congo tetra and 2 moonlight Gouramies (not sure if they are compatible though?) I will have to leave some of the fish I have already in the tank where they are they are as follows 2 Dwarf honey Gourami, 1 Dwarf coral blue Gourami, 1 rubber pleco, 4 corys and a Siamese Fighting Fish. Would I be well stocked with this amount of fish or would I have room for some other type of fish if so do you have any ideas of fish that would be compatible with the fish I mentioned? Thanks for help

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Hmmm Well...I'd rather see the corys in a larger school...six minimum rather than adding the other gouramies, more if you could fit it, as I've heard that they become really active in larger schools (I'm still working on increasing mine).

Not sure I'd have the betta in the tank, they'll often pick on others, be picked on and generally don't like alot of current...but if he's been happy so far....

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tessa38uk
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Ok what I have done is moved all the platys, mollies, betta,guppies and tetras to a smaller tank and i have cleaned the 4 foot tank out ready for my new fish I still have in there 5 giant danio, 1 swordtail, 2 plecos (the smaller types) 2 honey Gouramies and 1 dwarf Gouramie. :%)

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25 tiger barbs.
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lol @timmay (but i kinda like the idea acctually) mabe you could add a angelfish or 2 to your stocking list!
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tessa38uk
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Got angels in the other 4 foot also got silver dollars

[span class="edited"][Edited by tessa38uk 2004-07-06 08:26][/span]

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If that was me, no contest ... a 4 foot tank? 24 Panda Corys!

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o! 24 panda cories bleh! mabe a pair of rams those are pretty cool fish!
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tessa38uk
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LOL I do love panda corys though they are so cute.

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If I get my big breeding aquarium set up in the near future Tessa, I might be able to let you have 24 Pandas to stock your aquarium

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tessa38uk
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As much as I love them I am afraid I will have to decline your offer I may have room for maybe 4 as I wish to get a few other varieties but thanks for the offer anyways very kind thing to do.

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