New 60 Stocking Help and Ideas

Dec 23, 2016
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Hey guys,

My 60 has been running for a few months now but not with to many inhabitants. It is planted with water wisteria, a couple amazon swords, anubias, and a few java ferns. The only residents as of right now are a group of 5 albino corydora (I know they do better in 6+ but my LFS only had those 5 and haven't gotten anymore in stock since then and I have read that different strains don't always mix and I didn't want to chance it as they generally seems happy as clams), a mystery snail, and 1 nerite snail.

I need help trying to stock this bad boy. I really like schooling fish like cardinal tetras, rummy-nose, and harlequin rasboras, but I was hoping I could find something a little bit more interesting than those guys to kind of spice things up a but. For clarification I don't plan on buying all those schoolers just kinda of had them on my list as options. I was thinking about dwarf rainbows, maybe some sort of gourami, or even a livebearer like guppies would be fun. I just wanted to poke my head into some of these forums and see what people had to say about some different kinda of fish.

Thank you!
 

FreshyFresh

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Welcome and it sounds like a nice setup! I've never known different types of corys to not appreciate each other's company. I've got a mix of julli and panda corys in one of my tanks 7-8 all together. They all hang together. You've got a lot of nice options. In my community 55g, I've got 2 adult angels, 2 Siamese algae eaters, a little keyhole cichlid and 3 zebra danios. The angels and SAEs are large.

I do enjoy large groups of schooling fish, but tend to go with more interactive fish that come flying right over to see you.