Tayful

Neville

I will suggest Goldfishbut if u wanna keep goldfish u have to go for only goldfish, but they can look very very nice if u mix up black moors, orandas, fantails and pearlscale in a big tank, i mean fancy types, but it is better not to mix fancy types and common or carp goldfish. because common goldies r fast eaters; they will eat up all the food before slower fancy types could reach it.

Goldfish will deffinitely look much better than livebearers, barbs or tetras in a 46g.

COBettaCouple

I'm guessing your pleco is a common pleco? So he'll be growing to about 18". The Danios get to 2" each and can be nippers when kept in groups smaller than 6, so you may want to get 2 more for the community tank.
That would leave you with a max. of 16" of fish. (although the pleco puts out a lot of waste - if you could trade him for a trio of otos, you'd save a lot of space in the 46g)

Hatchetfish can be kinda jumpy and with Rams in the tank, you could end up with dried hatchetfish on the floor.. i'd leave them and the mollies (size) out and go with a pair of Rams (about 8" total there). That would leave you with about 8" more to work with.

With the 8", you could fit in 4 cory cats. I'd still be doing 25% pwc 2x a week because of the pleco and more frequent substrata cleaning.

Tayful

Thanks for the help everyone!

Sorry, I'm not all that interested in keeping goldfish. I've had my fair share of those in my lifetime and I'm looking forward to a tropical community.

COBettaCouple, thanks for your suggestions. I was really wanting some mollies though (they're my very favorites) so maybe I can work out a situation where I can fit some of them in.

The common pleco has been acting strangely lately. All of the danios remain fine but I think the pleco could be sick. He's showing no other signs except for the fact that he hardly moves anymore (he did a lot when I first got him) and he's been losing his color.

Thanks again everyone!

Barbrella

No Tiger Barbs with Angelfish. They will rip the angels' fins apart. Serpae tetras are also quite nippy.

If you want Rams, I would wait til the tank is established with excellent water params, since they are very sensitive. They're timid as well, so I would not put boisterous fish with them, like mollies, or aggressive ones like Swordtails. A school of Cardinal tetras would be more appropriate.

Remember that livebearers are non-stop poop and fry factories and foul the water quickly.

COBettaCouple

how big is your Pleco? You should post a thread in the freshwater diseases forum or the Pleco forum to get advice from our experienced Pleco owners.

i'm not sure if the rams and mollies would get along or not.. it would be something that you would want a backup plan for if they didn't.

Neville

Feed your pleco algae wafers that sink on the bottom, actually plecos hardly move during the day, they r nocturnal, gve it some hiding places where it can rest during the day. i think mollies would be fine with danios and pleco........
swordtails r a little aggressive and barbs r fin nippers so they r quite unpredictable, but angels will be ok with mollies
goodluck

alpha

Golden barbs are OK in terms of fin nipping, although you should keep them in a group of around 6 imo. Just have to bear in mind that they can grow to 3".

I've just had to get rid of some swordtails that were fin nipping in my tank.

Tom

You're just about as bad as me with trying to get people to get killifish.

There's an idea, get a bunch of killifish. lol
Tom

Sabi

Mollies
Cherry barbs
Rams
Angelfish. (you wont regret it!)
Did you open a thread on your pleco? Its normal for them to be nocturnal but not to change colour.

Neville

What is killifish

Tom

Are you serious or just bugging me? lol The direct translation from Dutch to English is 'ditch'='killi' and fish=fish, so ditchfish. Just a little something interesting.
Tom

COBettaCouple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killifish - They're very interesting fish.

Gunnie

Here's a link that might also be helpful:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/article...rence_list.php

swords3711

what are you talkinfg about
livebearers are excellent fish to have
we had a 55g tank with five goldfish
the tank looks really bare and there arent alot of fish you can get if you get goldfish

swords3711

mollies are excellent fish
we had two yellow mollies $3 each
they had a total of about 100 babies
about 50 of these are adults now
if we had sold these fish we would have made a profit of $146
that would be amazing
marbles in my opinion are the most beautiful mollies

Neville

i've just expresssed my opinion and u 've expressed yours, our choices r different that's all, u like livebearer i like goldfish.....

Neville

they r cool!!! never seen them before, we don't have it in bangladesh