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In the next couple months I'll be setting up a 30 gallon tank.
I plan on combining my three 10 gallon tanks into this 30 gallon. Here's what I currently have: 6 Zebra Danios, 6 White Cloud Minnows, 4 Peppered Cories, 3 ADFs and 3 Platies.
I plan on adding 2 more Peppered Cories to this list. So the final stock for the 30 gallon would be:
6 ZDs, 6 WCs, 6 PCs, and 3 Platies.
Filtration will be from two Penguin 125 power filters and one Whisper 10 power filter.
How does this stock list sound to everyone?

Are you planning to make it inbetween coldwater and warm water? The white cloud minnows don't like above 22c do they? I don't know about the corys but I don't think platys would lik eit to low. No idea about ADF? The stocking levels are fine.

aside from the filtration being insane, you should be ok. In my experience, wcmm's have done fine at tropical temperatures in the range of 75-78 degrees. Zebra danios are happy in a mud puddle, and i've seen adf's go either way, so i don't think temperature is of a high concern. If you want to please everyone, set it at 73-75

Yeesh... I have a Penguin 170 on my twenty gallon long... I think you'll have a hurricane in your tank with that much filtration! Other than that, sounds like a nice little tank.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I agree with fall out white clouds are very hardy and can stand any temp they perfer colder water but will be fine in a warm water tank with that many filters you probably clean the colors off the fish lol jk. Good luck

Last edited by brtaylor2000 at 14-Jan-2005 17:40

The stock looks great. Though i will advise you i have 2 pengiun 125s on my 33gallon and it pushes the plants down If you had all of that filtration i would definitly reccomend fake plants and rocks. No live plants and they will be all over the tank


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Thanks for replies everyone. I've been wanting a larger tank for my Cories and Danios for awhile now. And I didn't want to just add another tank to my list. I just couldn't settle on the correct setup. I guess I finally found my solution.

Yeah, I wasn't to sure about the amount of water flow. Those three filters are what I currently am running on my 10 gallon tanks. That's the only reason I thought about using them all. Since everyone suggested that it would be over-kill, I just won't add the Whisper filter. Then I can keep that filter on the 10 gallon for the ADFs. I was planning on a sponge filter for thier tank, but this works out even better.

I currently have all of my tanks at 76F. All seem to be fine with that. So I figured I'd keep the new tank at the same temperature.

Thanks again!