Fish suggestions

PRichs87

I just sold my angel on craigslist.

I currently have a 29 gallon

Aqueon 30 filter
Planted
Sand bottom

6 Black Phantom Tetra
6 blood fins
6 zebra danios


Debating on what to add:

school of neons or a pair of Some type of South American Cichlid

Also, wondering a bottom feeder suggestion: don't want loaches of any sort, used to have them.

Would love feedback or other suggestions.

Thanks!

Byron

No mention is made of water parameters, but going from present fish I would assume somewhere around neutral. A pair of trio of dwarf SA cichlid (some do best as 1 male/2 females) would work. With sand, Corydoras would be fine (some are less tolerant of water parameters so check the specifics in the profiles, we have quite a few species listed now), or a whiptail (Rineloricaria). Another shoaling tetra (several are in the profiles under characins) or hatchetfish (under characins) for the surface, or from the cyprinids a group of rasbora. These are all similar to what you have in that they are not overly-active swimmers and that is important when building a community; too active a fish group can often unsettle the others and lead to stress and related health issues.

PRichs87

Wow Byron, you're right totally forgot to post my water, noobie move there.

7.4 pH
all other counts good.- my tank is cleaned weekly via PWC and a good glass scrubbing.

Byron

Fine; my earlier suggestions are basically viable, just check the profiles for water parameters and select those that do well around the slightly basic (low to mid-7's) range. Some of the dwarf cichlids and characins that require acidic water should be left out.

PRichs87

snagged some panda cories tonight only 3 though :( will have to add more next week.

PRichs87

I picked up more cories and got a set of Kribs for the tank.

kitten_penang

what are kribs?

PRichs87

Kribensis, an African Dwarf cichlid which you can keep in a community tank. Unfortunately they killed one of my corydoras establishing their territory in the tank this morning.