Fish and Plants - Will This Work

Hello,
My cousins are getting a new tank, first they have had in a while. Here is my plan

• 1 blue acara
• 10 male guppies
• 9 Amano shrimp
• 7 panda corys
• 7 bronze Cory’s
• 3 nerite snails

It says I would only be %87 stocked and with all these live plants they will have I think the tank will be okay as long as all those fish are compatible.
The plants are

• Amazon sword
• Dwarf hairgrass
• Crypt wendtiI red
• Scarlet temple
• Lacy java fern
• Anubias

The tank will be dosed weekly with API leaf Zone fertilizer and the substrate will be Activ-Flora Planted Aquarium Substrate for the bottom layer and sand for the top layer. Temperature will be set at 75 if that’s the best.

 

I recommend adding the pandas last. I almost made the mistake of getting the too early and they got upset when I had a spike in ammonia. I don’t know much about the other fish but the bronze Cory’s are supposedly extremely hardy so they should be fine as long as the tank is cycled and you use a bacteria supplement.

 

What size tank? The other fish may be alright with the acara, but I’d be concerned for the guppies as they would likely be small enough to eat.

 

The guppies and amanos likely will get eaten by a full grown EBA.

 

It’s a 40 breeder

The guppies and amanos likely will get eaten by a full grown EBA.

What’s the EBA

I recommend adding the pandas last. I almost made the mistake of getting the too early and they got upset when I had a spike in ammonia. I don’t know much about the other fish but the bronze Cory’s are supposedly extremely hardy so they should be fine as long as the tank is cycled and you use a bacteria supplement.

I’m using one of my filter cartridges from one of my cycled tanks to hopefully cycle the tank within a week

 

electric blue acara, I see you have listed blue acara, which if that is the actual fish it will be getting even larger than the electric blue acara.

 

electric blue acara, I see you have listed blue acara, which if that is the actual fish it will be getting even larger than the electric blue acara.

Okay so what is a good single centerpiece fish?

What about a pearl scale gourami or a dwarf gourami?

 

If you can get an Electric Blue Acara it wouldn't be as easy for it to eat your fish, however a blue gourami or similar (get around 5-6 inches long, people friendly, smaller mouth to make it less likely to eat fish) would be an option.

 

Okay will see what the LFS has and will decide from there. Thank You!