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Ferox
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The calculator says my tank has 160 or lo litres, 44 US gallons and 37 UK gallons. It's 4ft long.

It's been running for about 4 years, and was once stocked with a CAE, pearl gouramis, white clouds, an angel fish and zebra danios at various points.

It currently contains:
-A breeding pair of Kribs and two of their nearly mature offspring (one male, one female).
- The last danio
- The last white cloud

It is about to contain 3 female bettas, and I plan to move out the danio and white cloud. Yes, I know they are schooling fish and should be kept in groups of 6+, but they're not really what I want to keep anymore and I can't trade them in.

I am thinking of adding:
- the 3 female bettas mentioned above
- 2 to 4 bristlenose plecos
- Some cherry barbs (depending on availability) or
- 4 black and white mollies (depending on availability)

I'm not exactly sure of what numbers I could keep, as I will likely only be seeing this tank once a week next year, so I needed something tougher than the white clours and danios.

It's been a while since I did stocking like this, so I'm thinking if I can get cherries instead of mollies I could get 8 to 10 if I go down to 2 bristle noses when they get bigger and I can sex them. Have I got the numbers about right of a stable, low maintenance tank? Or can you think of any other species suggestions?

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Post InfoPosted 21-Oct-2007 06:00Profile MSN PM Edit Report 
Bubblebrain
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well just to let you know danios are about as tough as fish get.
it would be better to get more chery barbs than to have mollies because mollies are better in brackish or marine tanks than freshwater.
bristlenose catfish/plecos are tough as nails and easily survive temperature drops and climbs, disease outbreaks and pretty much anything you throw at them (although i wouldn't recomend throwing anything at it as it may get squished) i have one and it has survived a blackout that lasted for four days and the temperature dropped from 27 to 20 (*c) and also survived an ich outbreak. basically their great.
all up it sounds great.

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Ferox
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I've found that danios and white clouds, both being small fish, tend to have a high mortality rate just after purchance, probably because the shop doesn't put htem in quarantine, and I wont be there for a lot of the time to fish them out.

I asked my family what sort of fish they wanted to see in the tank.
Dad - Fish that breed
Mum - Fish that have sucker mouths (She's the one that bought me the CAE originally)
Brother - Red ones.

So I think I'll have that sorted.

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If you are going to add the 3 female Bettas, i would add these fish -

4 Kribensis.
2 Bristlenose.
10 - 12 Cherry Barbs.
4 Mollies & you can add other fish if you like.

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