Small Fish Ideas for 90 gallon tank

ive recently got rid of my meat eating fish in my 90 gallon fresh water tank and am about to get small non agro fish to put in there any suggestions on how many little (2-3 in) fish I can safely put in it I have three power heads two running the undergravel filter one pushing water. Also I have a canister filter that moves 750 gallons a hour so there plenty of filtration and water movement any help would be apperciated

 

Welcome to the forum,

Do you know about the nitrogen cycle and how it truly works? If not click the underlined words and it will lead you to an article about it. Is the tank cycled? It says you started the tank tommorow? Huh? If your tank is not cycled I would recommend doing so as putting fish in an uncycled tank is inhumane. Heres a few ways on how https://www.fishlore.com/aquariumfishforum/threads/four-methods-of-fish-less-cycling.48446/

Of course, when you are cycling you need to test your water. I would recommend you buy a test kit. Test kits and water conditioners and not a waste of money. Test kits will allow you to monitor your water chemistry and see if anything goes wrong.

Water conditioners are important as well. They remove chlorine and chloramine and some even detoxify ammonia which is highly beneficial. If you are letting your water sit 24 hours prior to doing a water change, it will dissipate chlorine but not chloramine which is just as deadly to fish. Water conditioners remove both to make your water safe for fish.

The amount of fish you can have in your tank depends on what kind of fish you want.

 

Welcome to the forum

I have close to 90 fish in my 90 gallon. Filtration is an XP3 and a 530 GPH sunsun.

Stock is goldfish, dojo and kuhlI loaches, albino, emerald and juliI corys, cherry and gold barbs, neon, black neon, orange flame and bloodfin tetras, dwarf neon rainbows, pearl gouramis, and an albino BN and a rubberlip pleco.

 

Hello Don and Welcome to Fish Lore!

I hope you enjoy the site.

Ken

 

First off I would like to welcome you to FishLore donfromohio. I am not going to even ask some of the normal first questions because you posted you have been keeping fish for quite sometime so I am going to assume a few things but it would be nice if your profile had a bit more information on the tank and the water. You stated in the profile that in your eyes a test kit is a waste of money but it is hard to advise on what type of fish to keep if we don’t know the true pH, GH, DH, and temperature of the water. Some fish do better in low pH some in high, some fish do better in soft water and some in hard so without knowing a few test results I can not make any suggestions for stocking, but gosh a 90 gallon tank to stock, wow so many options to go with depending on the waters parameters.

 

thanks for all the input I would like to get some schooling fish and bright fish any suggestions we have good water here in my town so I'm not worried about the ph and all that good stuff also any ideas on some plants that would be a nice addition to my tank thanks again I have had my meat eaters out of the tank for a couple of weeks now gave the tank a 50 percent water change and deep clean so my ph and all is good to go

 

Hello Don,

Please check out the thread in the link below. I want you to receive as many responses to your inquiry as possible:
https://www.fishlore.com/aquariumfishforum/threads/wall-o-text-posts-and-run-on-sentences.86640/

Thanks!

Ken