680 gallon - how many wide-bar silver dollars? General stocking suggestions?

[specialone0812]

How's the pond doing?

It is full of rain water. I have not plumbed skimmers/BDs to my filters/pumps inside my filter house yet. At the last minute, I decided to build a filter house to house all my equipment and right after I finished the filter house, I got busy with another more important project - a newborn.

[sayersweb]

Hi Mike... the tiger shovelnose is very cool looking. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm actually trying to reduce the number of fish, all of the ones listed in my original post are already in the 3 aquariums, and they are going to be combined into only the 2 larger aquariums once the 200 is gone.

How about a tiger shovelnose?

Mike

[sayersweb]

Hey Tony... Good to hear from you!

Yes, I'm just not sure about the silver dollars. I definitely will keep the 7 red hooks I already have. I want to keep all 9 wide-bars, but I am worried about bio load and the resulting nitrates. On my existing aquariums I do weekly water changes of at least 50% and feed carefully, but nitrates are constantly approaching 15 to 20ppm by water change day. One interesting thing though, I've been using the API nitrates test kit. Just today I used a LoMotte test kit and the results appear lower (after using the 4.4 multiplier) than the API results.

How's the pond doing?

Wow, I would do exactly what you decide to keep and not to keep; However, if tank space was not a problem, I would keep a school of 9 wide bar silver dollars.

Are you gonna throw those un-wanted fishes to your pond? LOl.

[mredman]

How about a tiger shovelnose?

Mike

[specialone0812]

Wow, I would do exactly what you decide to keep and not to keep; However, if tank space was not a problem, I would keep a school of 9 wide bar silver dollars.

Are you gonna throw those un-wanted fishes to your pond? LOl.

[sayersweb]

Just to be clear... the fish from 3 aquariums listed below are being combined into 2 aquariums. I am trying to decide which fish to keep and which to get rid of. All of the fish in the lists below already exist in the aquariums.

I should be taking delivery of a 680 gallon aquarium in the next couple of weeks. It is coming as a full setup with fish and will be replacing an existing 200 gallon that already has fish. I also have a 300 gallon with fish. I'm trying to sort out which fish to keep and in which aquarium they should go. The 200 gallon is not staying once this is all sorted out.

There are 9 wide-bar silver dollars coming with the 680. I also have 4 red hook lunas, and 3 thin-bars. I am thinking of only keeping 5 of the wide-bars since they get so big. Listed below are the stock lists for the 680 & 300, plus the list of fish I may not keep. Any suggestions?

This is the stock list for the 680 that I am considering:

1 Black Arowana
1 Red Tail Giant Gourami
1 Flagtail
1 Pink Tail Chalceus
5 Wide Bar Silver Dollars
4 Red Hook Silver Dollars (Luna)
3 Thin Bar Silver Dollars
4 Geo Surinamensis
4 Geo Threadfins
4 Nicaraguensis
16 Roseline Barbs
11 Clown Loaches
1 Synodontis
1 Gold Nugget Pleco


This is the stock list I am considering for the 300 gallon:

1 Flagtail
1 Red-Spot Gold Severum
1 Red shoulder Banded Severum
4 Geo Argyrostictus
4 Red-head Geos
3 Geo Altifrons
5 Electric Blue Acaras
3 Biotodoma Cupido
2 Festivum
12 Assorted Rainbows
4 Blue Botias
2 Queen Loaches


Fish that I probably will not keep:

1 Giant Plecos
4 Wide-bar Silver Dollars
1 Monodactylus Sebae
1 Monodactylus Argenteus
4 Bala Sharks
6 Regular Silver Dollars