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Amelia's Future 2nd 70G Stocking
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I have no idea why I started thinking about this, since I haven't even filled the 70G I have now, but I'm sure many of you are familiar with this -- you start thinking about a certain kind of fish which you really like and unfortunately can't keep. This leads you to consider which tank mates you'd keep with it. And the sized tank. And how you'd lay it out...
... Next minute you're looking up 70g tanks in the classifieds...
So, HYPOTHETICALLY, not that I'm contemplating buying another 70G (or similar sized)...
Would this stocklist work?
1-2 Golden Severums
20 Tiger Barbs
6 Pictus Cats
1 Red-Tailed Black Shark
1 Plecostomus
NOTE: for the plecostomus I'd have to research something medium sized. Bigger than a BN but smaller than a common, if such a thing exists.
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Sounds like a cool stocking scheme to me! I don't know what a severum or a pictus cat is, but I doubt they get too big.
With the pleco, there really aren't many commonly available 'medium' sized plecos out there. It's usually really either small or big. However, something like a medusa or leopard frog pleco may work. They are hard to come by though. Not exactly common.
Good luck :D
Research, research, research!
( I really should follow my own advice!)
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I have no idea what plecostomus I'd want. I'd pick based on what I could find that wasn't too big.
And yeah, I was thinking 4 pictus cats might be good. They're very active things, but the other fish should be able to cope. Note that they're the 12cm max species. Many people seem to think they get like a foot long, must be other species out there with a similar name.
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I have no idea where people are getting these measurements from... I don't even OWN said tank yet, and I haven't stated any measurements. But it would be a 70g, 120cm+ tank.
To avoid confusion, it's Pimelodus pictus. Every site I have been on said that a 4 foot tank is sufficient.
BUT I may have to scrap the idea anyway and stick with cories because of the risk of the barbs nipping on the cat's long barbels.
Yes Scotti -- :) that was what I planned on doing with the barbs. Love the big mixed schools.
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Is your tank 36inx18inx25in?
Guys, a tank like that around Aus & NZ is usually a minimum of a 4 foot long if that helps.
I can't think off the top of my head of something other than corys for you to have in the tank if you can't have pictus. Barbs in a large school don't tend to be as nippy as small school though...
~Col~
4 ft 60g FW: 2 angels, 4 blind cave, 1 whiteskirt, 4 gold widows, 6 serpaes, 1 neonhead apisto, 4 clown loaches, 4 albino cory, 2 bronze corys & 3 BN plecos.
23g FW: 1 neonhead apisto, 1 yoyo, 2 albino BN plecos & 4 pepper cory
5.5g: Crowntail Betta, 6 black Khuli's & RCS
5 g: Crowntail Betta, 1 albino cory (Quasi), 4 baby khuli's & RCS
7 g: Dragontail Betta & 2 albino cory
3ft Axi tank: 1 black, 1 gold - 1 redcap oranda & 2 albino cory
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Keep in mind that pictus will swallow anything that can fit in their mouths... I'm not sure how big tiger barbs get, but make sure they're not snackable size!
That being said, I adore pictus cats and wish I could have them myself.
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