Starting new tank, need stocking suggestions.

[Tek]

Sorry play on words. Baby Cat fish..

Oh, I should have thought of that.

Took the cats out. one died, don't know if it came sick, or if its the tank. I put the others in an isolation tank with aged water and left gambusia in the tank to finish cycling.

The gambusia looks so insignificant in there though

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Sorry that the tank still looks so rough. Still working on it. LOL. I need to clean the rock. Got lazy and just threw it in.

[jeb102385]

i would do angels with corys cardinals and rummy noses

[troy tucker]

Sorry play on words. Baby Cat fish..

[mistahoo]

TURTLE FOOD.
Caught it in the bayou along with minnows and gabusia for my turtles to eat, but they never ate them.

This one I think is a small Tilapia.

Not staying in the tank. Just hanging out.

They look like this in no time:
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Hahah nice turtle though!

[Tek]

Nice looking Turtle.

Thanks

The kittons look cool too.

Kittons?

[troy tucker]

Nice looking Turtle. The kittons look cool too. What ever you choose for the tank. we look forward to seein

[Tek]

What's that other fish in the first pic?

TURTLE FOOD.
Caught it in the bayou along with minnows and gabusia for my turtles to eat, but they never ate them.

This one I think is a small Tilapia.

Not staying in the tank. Just hanging out.

They look like this in no time:
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[mistahoo]

What's that other fish in the first pic?

[Tek]

Post a picture of the cats.

They are not staying still :o

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sorry for bad pics, they are too quick for my phone

[sunkenmetal]

red eye redtail if you dont want to do brackish puffers lol

[troy tucker]

Fig8 puffers and mono sebae.

Post a picture of the cats.

[sunkenmetal]

Some type of fresh water puffer

[Tek]

okay, new dilemma. i was surprised with catfish this morning.

three pictus cats ( not the problem) and two shark catfish.
the pictus can live out their lives in the 55 with almost anything but the sharks are brackish, will get huge and eat anything it can swallow.

anyone have experience with these? thinking of keeping them till they outgrow the tank and then selling them. they look so darn cool and are so active.

what should i keep with them?

all cats are currently under two inches

[Tek]

Take this bad boy home!
http://www.houstonfishbox.com/vforum...Senegal-Bichir

Ha ha, too aggressive. But my fiancee actually suggested I get one yesterday

The above fish sound like a cool combo already.
But have you thought of small & medium sized gouramis (like pearl gouramis=Trichopodus leerii and powder blue dwarf gouramis=Colisa lalia and or paradise fish = Macropodus sp.) They are quite under rated fish but can loof great in a tank planted with cryptocorynes. They are quite hardy. You can throw in some rasboras and cherry barbs.

Yeah, but those I mentioned won't be staying in the tank forever. They are just keeping the tank occupied for now.

I have had gouramis in the past, and I would consider them again. Paradise Fish were one of my first fish as a kid. I could probably keep some Gouramis with the Rainbows and throw in some rasboras and Cherry barbs. I saw some Cherry Barbs on sale somewhere yesterday. Can't remember where tho :o

[Tek]

Thanks everyone for the replies thus far.

I like fish that have a shoaling behavior, do better in groups/numbers, etc. That or fish that are harem/colonial breeders. These show the most unique behavior I have witnessed.

Me too. I love the activity and movement. I think that is another reason why I got bored of African Cichlids. They are nice too look at but sometimes they just hover there.

What about a nice Amazon type setup with some rare discuss and some other rare wild schooling fish. Get some really badazz wood and dont over kill the tank with plants but have a few for natural look. I dont mind plant tanks but i think some just look bad when the entire bottem is cover in plant matter. Leave some open area and do and eye catching tank!

Thats just my input!

I should have mentioned this before in my OP but my 65g is an amazon tank. I have two tanks, an Amazon and a turtle tank. I don't have too many plants, in fact the tank is young (about a month old) so I don't have too much growth in there. In Fact I need more plants. There are open areas where my corys sift through the sand.

A south ameracin tank would look great. Angels Discus and Rams mixed with tetras for lots of color. add some cories and plecos. Silver dollars a ghostknife. all would look great.

Just my 2 cents

My SA tank does have angels and corys, I am thinking of adding rams, Discus I am not ready for. I have been keeping fish for about 20 yrs but don't think I am ready for discus yet. My tanks are over filtered but don't get changed that often. My previous amazon sat there for over a year with stable parameters, but then again that one was like a the jungle you described. Anyway when I get older I may try my hand at Discus, just not now. Plecos and Silver dollars would not work in the amazon because they eat plants.

I am thinking of silver dollars for the 55 though, just dunno what to put in there with them.

I would do an Amazon tank with dwarf cichlids and and a ton of tetras with super easy plants like swords and annubias.

yeah, my 65 is under stocked, I am going to add dwarf cichlids and more tetras in that tank

rams are nice

Love them.

Or a bunch of different Australian rainbows.

That's an Idea. I have some in my Amazon tank, I could remove those and start a rainbow tank. I have Praecox and Turquoise rainbows. I might get Boesmanis and Reds. those would stand out well in the 55.

Discus is nice with community tanks

They are, but I like admiring them from a far