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BT Fish Guy asked in PetsFish · 6 years ago

Need help with stocking ideas for fresh water aquarium!! And a few quick questions :)?

Hey guys I have a 29 gallon tank and I have right now 1 dwarf gourami and 2 dwarf cory catfish...I do plan on upping the numbers for them!! Anyway I am thinking this for my over all stock

1 dwarf honey gourami

4-5 cory catfish

5 cherry shrimp to start with

6-9 ( some kind of tetra ) peaceful and pretty coloration

I also want so get a moss ball I don't know much about them but I know I dot want it to float so how can I get it to the bottom and not have it floating and moving around the tank??

And my last question is how can I vacuum with my cherry shrimp in the tank, I don't want to suck them up

Update:

Right now I have

1 dwarf honey gourami

2 dwarf cory catfish

What i want in my tank is

-1dwarf honey gourami

-6-9 schooling fish I want pretty and peaceful tetras!

And then I want to up the number of cory catfish up to 4 or 5

And I want about 5 cherry shrimp to start with

Just making this clear^^^!!!

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  • 6 years ago

    Just wanted to mention, you no you cant get discus, they need HUGE tanks, and are extremely hard to care for, and no you cant put superglue in your tank, and moss balls don't float anyway. Also, cories are great.

    Now that that isn't bugging me any more,

    you should have at least 5 cories of the same species,

    Cherry shrimp are bigger than ghost shrimp and might be safe, but you never really know if they will get eaten right away are someday.

    so you have a dwarf gourami, and 5-6 dwarf cories

    one school of tetras would work.

    If I had to choose, I really like glolight tetras and rummy nose tetras, my favorite are x-ray tetras. Which come in regular, and albino, also known as golden x-ray tetras, and you could get 3 of each and have a school of 6 since they are the same species.

    You can vacuum very carefully with the open end very low, section buy section so you know were the shrimp are. And were the cories are!, I have never had shrimp, but I think that would be easier then when I vacuum and my fish are trying to swimm into the tube looking for food.

    you could choose most any tetra species you like.

  • 6 years ago

    Discus are always pretty for a small tank but you might need more space

    Super glue a weight of some kind to the bottom of the Moss ball super glue is 100% safe

    No way to guarantee you won't suck them up but you could try using a bucket

    Source(s): Me
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