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For the past few months, I've been too busy raising my puppy/dog to pay attention to my aquarium more than to change the water and feed the fish. Now that the dog is finally starting to get somewhat well-behaved, I want to get my aquarium looking nice again.

Its a 110 liter tank, with a decent amount of plants and some driftwood. The current fish are:
16 cardinal tetras
1 bronze cory
1 peppered cory
1 adult bristlenose catish
2 sons/daughters or the bristenose
1 betta
1 pearl gourami
1 guppy

The two small bristlenoses and the guppy are (hopefully) going to be moving soon.

I know I need to get more cories- I started out with several, but some have died. I'm considering getting rid of the gourami too... What else could I do?

What I would do is add several cories to the tank. It would be nice to have two schools of six each of your cories, but you don't have the room. For now, add three or so cories. You could probably keep the gourami if you wanted, but that's a personal choice.

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Ok, according to the calculator on this site, you have a 29 USg tank.

For that size tank and what you've said so far, I suggest:

1) The stock you listed is too big for that tank, provided that you up your cory school to 6.

2) Good job on making the cardinal school nice and big, but what about reducing it to maybe 10 or so, so you have more stocking space to work with?

3) As you said you know, the corys need to be in a school of at least 6.

4) Really all three bristlenose plecs should go. They can potentially get too big for your tank. Instead I recommend a clown plec.

5) Sometimes bettas have problems being in larger community tanks. Other fish like to nip at their fins, and sometimes the filter can be too strong for them. Your gourami would be a fish to watch out for. Gouramis and bettas don't tend to get along because they are closely related (kinda, they're both labyrinth fish) and one can confuse the other for a rival male. I've seen it happen.

For your tank I suggest this:

Return the plecs, 6 cards and the guppy and get your betta a new home (a 1g would even be fine).

Then stock it like this:
1 pearl gourami
10 cardinal tetras
6 corys
1 clown plec

I know that seems like a lot to do, but it's worth it when considering the well being of your fish. Good luck

EDIT: Didn't check my spelling

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[span class="edited"][Edited by gartenzwerfe 2004-09-05 12:01][/span]

keep the cards get kuhlies n harliquin raspboas them n cards look amazing

Just a couple things to add to what Dani had to say...

1)Make sure that when it comes to the 6 cories, make sure they're the same species, so just choose one species and stick to filling out that one school...

2)A bristlenose pleco would be okay in that tank as long as you make sure to have a nice piece of driftwood. It comes down to your choice, but you'd be okay with one...

Otherwise, everything she told you's on the dot...

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