Curious about what combination of fish worked for you.?

Question

I have a 100+ gallon tank (I think it's a 150 but not sure). Anyway I have quite a few different species in there, such as an angel fish, pleco, guarmies (sp?), Chinese suckers, a school of various tetra, a dragon fish (gobi), some snails, a small eel, peacock fish, a couple of cat fish, silver dollar, and I'm losing count.

So far everyone seems to be getting along, (except for one obnoxious guarmi). The tank has been set up for several months now and everyone is getting big and no strange deaths or anything.

I am curious what fish combinations you've put together before and it just hasn't worked? Any fish out there that seems particularly mean to the others? Or combinations that shouldn't have worked but did?

This is the second time I've kept a large aquarium and it's always seemed to me that if I start the fish out together (when they're small), they get along OK. Just my experience.

Answer 1

copied this from my other post:

i have about a 350 litre one, with 2 flame dwarf gouramis, 3 adult angels about 3 inches across, 8 neon tetras , leopard pleco ( stays medium size about 8 inches max) , 2 kuhli loaches , 1 peppered corydoras catfish hope fully adding 3 albinos too, 5 male guppies 1 is with 1/3 of his tail due to an attack from my new black ghost knife was an accident happened only once and i have a golf ball size apple snail and an adult ramshorn snail thought to be lost but when he emerged he was triple the size i got him about 1 cm so thats all i think maybe adding some new fish still have to decide how much :)
, for live plants i have hornworth and amazon swords and some misc

P.S. i got the 3 albino cories today :D

heres some pics of my aquarium and some of the fish:

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havent got a photo of the black ghost knife yet coz its always hiding or the camera hasnt got the batteries lol anyway goodluck :)

Answer 2

The only fish I see you have listed that might have some issues would be the angel's. As they grow sometimes others particularly tetra's like to fin nip them, however being in such a large tank you might not have any issues. I too think starting them out together is better but you will always run across an occasional fish no matter what species they are that's a little more on the aggressive side. Even a gold fish can be this way. It might be that you'll have to get rid of the guarmi if it becomes a problem.

Answer 3

The Gobi should not be doing as well as you say it is... it is a brackish water fish (brackish is where freshwater rivers meet the salty seas), but you have it in a freshwater tank, it will live, but it would prefer some saltier water. If you have a friend with a brackish tank and some room, you might want to give the Gobi to them. If you really want to keep it, I guess it couldn't be that bad. Watch out for the Gouramis and the Angelfish being aggressive towards each other, they won't like the others' long fins. You should probably get a few more Silver Dollars because they are very social fish...

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Answer 4

The thing with Angelfish is they are very sensitive and since gouramis tend to be pushy they can upset the angels, also with fish like that they get pretty big and will start to pick on each other, I have 100 gallon tank with a couple catfish, a brown knife fish, a needlefish, a couple african sicklets (sp?), two plecos, a leaf fish, a mono, and two gouramis (i think that's it). All my fish are about the same aggressive level so they get along ok but there are still some occassional injuries when they get hungry and fussy

Answer 5

I have a 55 gallon tank it has four blue guarmi's eight anglefish, and one chineese sucker, this has been for about 2 years, no deaths and all is well, I change the water 25% every month.I have live plants rocks and decorations, it looks great.

Answer 6

I'd be careful of cichlids. We had a 2 red tiger oscars and they took a while to get together ok, but eventually they were fine.
also we had a really nice large tank with a plecco, some salmon tail catfish, a huge yabbie and some other fish...
in salt water, i dont suggest getting a harliquin tusk fish unless you want a very quiet tank.... and dont put him with a shark. lol

Answer 7

i have put a beta and a blackmore together and it did not work

and i have also put a oscar and a peco in a tank together twice one time it work but another time the oscar at the lip off of the peco