Should I Upgrade Right Now?

comethazine
  • #1
Ok so I have a 29 Gallon tank with a 50 Gallon and a 10 gallon filter. My water parameters are all good and the water is super clean. Now I was wondering if I should upgrade to a bigger tank.
Fish Stock in tank:
Angels:2(one is small)
Blue Gourami:1
Tiger Barbs:4
Cory Cats:4
Rainbow Shark:1
*all the fish are healthy and doing great*
 
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Natalia666
  • #2
I think you should since the angels will get bigger and your tank will quickly be overstocked

Also, the rainbow shark will grow to large for the tank
 
comethazine
  • Thread Starter
  • #3
Also, the rainbow shark will grow to large for the tank

what size do you think I should upgrade to?
 
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itsayes
  • #4
When you say 50 gallon and 10 gallon filter, do you mean gph or rated for those size tanks?

Also I think there may be some stocking issues if you want to discuss.
 
Natalia666
  • #5
You may want a tank size of 50, then the shark as well as the angels can thrive also, then you still have room to add another tiger barb (just a suggestion) since they like being in groups of at least 5

also, that 50 gallon filter you already own would work perfectly with the upgrade too
 
comethazine
  • Thread Starter
  • #6
When you say 50 gallon and 10 gallon filter, do you mean gph or rated for those size tanks?

Also I think there may be some stocking issues if you want to discuss.

The filters are for those size tanks and yes I would like to discuss the stocking issues
 
itsayes
  • #7
I think Natalia is giving some pretty sound advice. A lot of folks here seem to think minimum size for 2 angels is a 29 gallon by themselves.

Rainbow shark will need more room for sure and I'd be a little concerned with the tiger barbs and angels in the long run.

I'm no expert, just some things I've learned from the members here. Hopefully someone corrects me if I'm offbase!
 
Tmosis
  • #8
55 gallon tanks are easy to come by. Your filters would still cover that. You want to add a couple more cories as 6 is usually what I see as minimum group size for them. From what I understand, the larger your school of tigers the lower risk they will nip your Angel's fins.

Bonus: since you'll be using the established filters you can probably just move everything into the new tank without too much worry of ammonia spike and such. I'd probably do an extra water change each week for a month to be on the safer side still.
 
Feesh404
  • #9
Tiger Barb's love being in groups of 6-8 but best is 10-12. My friends say I date tiger barbs because I know and love them (I think my only friends are you guys!). Put the tigers in a separate 20 or 30 gallon as they don't do well with angels or gouramis!
 

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