can I get more fish for my 250 litre tank?

[silentlistener]

at the moment-
8 tiger barbs of medium size and

10 mollies of different breeds..

help .. do i need to add more fishes or algae eating fish...?:4:

[silentlistener]

come one guys tell me.

[Sounguru]

at the moment-
8 tiger barbs of medium size and

10 mollies of different breeds..

help .. do i need to add more fishes or algae eating fish...?:4:

I would say you can add 6 cories for bottom clean up and 6-8 ottocinclus for alage duty but I would not go much more than that. The mollies produce a lot of bioload and if the fry have enough hiding space you may have more soon. Tiger barbs also like to have space to school and can be nippy if crowded so that will limit the number of fish you can add. I would not add any fish that are in the middle to top of your water column you are getting crowded in that area.

If you dropped the number of mollies to say 4 then that would open up more choices to go with like a gourami or 2

[silentlistener]

what cories are ? for algae eating i think 1 pair is enough... or it depends upon tank to tank ..ok... i can't remove them only i can do if any fish die....if algae eater fish. do anything wrong with mollies or tiger barbs of if any of them do something wrong with algae eating fish. then ??

[Holyvision]

They will get along fine.

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I agree with Song, otos and cories are a good idea, they add character and a clean up crew. I would get more than just 2 otos, they like being in schools and need more than that, same with the cory cats. Maybe 6 and 6.

[Sounguru]

Otocinclus are small in a 60 gallon it will take 6 or more to keep alage under control....

[Sharkman]

what cories are ? for algae eating i think 1 pair is enough... or it depends upon tank to tank ..ok... i can't remove them only i can do if any fish die....if algae eater fish. do anything wrong with mollies or tiger barbs of if any of them do something wrong with algae eating fish. then ??


what are you trying to say here?

[NickFish]

what cories are ? for algae eating i think 1 pair is enough... or it depends upon tank to tank

I think you are confusing otocinclus with plecos.

There are differnet kinds of algae eaters. You are probably thinking plecos.

Otocinclus are much different than plecos, they are very small. Rarely going over 1.5". 6 of them wouldn't even have an impact on your tank.

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