FoughtWand Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) Hey guys first I apologize for the low quality picture but I could not find a better one right now. I know this is a generic question but what center piece fish could I put in my 120 gallon. Right now it has 20-30 bronze cories that are reproducing, 9 different kinds of rainbows all around 4 inches +, a rhino pleco, and a pearl gurami that is gonna be moved to a 55 soon. I used to have an 16 year old kissing gourami that lived with everything from neon tetras to angelfish but he passed away a few months ago and I was thinking of maybe getting 2-3 more but I've heard that they can get mean. Any other ideas would be appreciated. I have also thought about blue acara but they may eat the cories or even 3-5 angel fish but idk how many I could add and I definitely don't have space if they start breeding and fighting for space. Edited April 23, 2021 by FoughtWand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 2 hours ago, FoughtWand said: Hey guys first I apologize for the low quality picture but I could not find a better one right now. I know this is a generic question but what center piece fish could I put in my 120 gallon. Right now it has 20-30 bronze cories that are reproducing, 9 different kinds of rainbows all around 4 inches +, a rhino pleco, and a pearl gurami that is gonna be moved to a 55 soon. I used to have an 16 year old kissing gourami that lived with everything from neon tetras to angelfish but he passed away a few months ago and I was thinking of maybe getting 2-3 more but I've heard that they can get mean. Any other ideas would be appreciated. I have also thought about blue acara but they may eat the cories or even 3-5 angel fish but idk how many I could add and I definitely don't have space if they start breeding and fighting for space. We keep Electric Blue Acaras in a community setting with no problems. They’re pretty “chill.” They might pick off young Corys though... Normally, I’d think your mature male Bosemanis _are_ centerpiece fish. Personally, it would depend on your water source. If soft water, I’d go full-on Amazon. Discus, Angels, Tetras, Corys, Plecos. If hard water, I’d keep things Asian / Oceana and keep Rainbowfish, Rasboras, etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 I’d add more rainbows. Can’t think of a better centerpiece fish. If you’re doing mostly melanotaenia maybe do some chilatherina bleheri. You could go odd ball and do a ghost knife, rope fish or a different cat like a synodontis species. Have fun! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 If you go with angels i would get at most 2 or at lest 10 - with 3 to 5 you are likely to run into problems if a bounded pair forms which is fairly likely unless you get explicitly 3 to 5 of a single sex. Angels tend to form tight m:f bounds and the others are made a bit unwelcome. This is my tank. I had 11 angels but got rid of 2 unbounded males who were causing problems (trying to take mates from other males): -- To be honest i think you have a large selection of fishes - one thing that is kind of nice about angels is they pretty much stay put and you don't have to worry about top/bottom level dwellers. - An alternative approach would be to try a few dwarf cichlid. There are 100's of species to choose from ranging from 2ish inches to 4 or 5 inches. Some spunky some colourful some a bit of both. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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