The BEST Ideas for Your 29 Gallon Fish Tank

🌱 Visit aquariumcoop.com/ to buy aquarium plants, lights, fish food, and more from Aquarium Co-Op
🐟 Buy fish at geni.us/LiveFish from our preferred online retailers with the code aquariumcoop to save 5%
‎ Got a 29 or 30-gallon aquarium but aren't sure what to do with it? Here are our top 5 stocking ideas.
💡 Best 10-gallon aquarium ideas: • Playlist
💡 Best 20-gallon aquarium ideas: • Playlist
🛒 Buy fish at geni.us/LiveFish from our preferred online retailers with the code aquariumcoop to save 5%. (As an affiliate of these retailers, we earn a commission when you use our code or affiliate links.)
🌱 Buy plants, lights, food, chemicals and more from our online store: aquariumcoop.com/
📕 Want in-depth articles on freshwater aquariums? Visit our blog: aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium
🐟 Searching for that respectful community to talk about fish? Join our forum: forum.aquariumcoop.com/
WHO WE ARE
------------------------------------------------
At Aquarium Co-Op, we focus on your aquariums. We specialize in freshwater tropical fish, aquatic plants, and the overall betterment of the freshwater fish keeping hobby. Our goal is to help you with your first pet fish and graduate you to an advanced aquarium hobbyist. If you'd like to take it to the next level, subscribe to Aquarium Co-Op and check out our weekly videos.
Cory McElroy is employed by Aquarium Co-Op LLC. He also owns Aquarium Co-Op LLC. Therefore, all content is sponsored by Aquarium Co-Op.
0:00 Triple-layered South American aquarium
2:13 Angelfish breeding aquarium
3:40 Unheated aquarium
5:03 Glofish aquarium
6:28 Fancy goldfish aquarium
#Aquariumcoop #Aquariumfish #Fishtank

[@AquariumCoop]

*Want to keep even bigger fish? Check out our top fish stocking ideas for a 55-gallon aquarium: **kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKa2dqmHrrysjqM*

[@Fuckyouhoe124]

Can you do one for saltwater? I just bought a 29 gallon and I'm doing some soft corals/nano reef tank

[@johnsmith-bx5pf]

In mine i have 7 mollies 1 female betta and 5 albino corys

[@AquaticSounds]

I have a 30 gal tank, I'm looking to add cherry shrimp or amano shrimp for algae.

[@purgatory3176]

i have 33 long would you recommend the fish from the 55 gallon list or this 29

[@shorkie8799]

It would be awesome to see a video on a 36 gallon! I can't find any videos

[@saranobutt]

This is so perfect because I have two 29 gallon tanks and when I look up videos just to see fishes in tanks at size, I usually don't find them. But one of my tanks have been empty since March so this is perfect

[@butkusfan23]

I have kept fish for 20 years now, and I have watched all of these “stocking ideas” videos, but I still love to watch them, especially the ones from Corey and KG Tropicals.

[@SP-qs4yh]

Same

[@connorfearon3201]

Didn’t ask

[@butkusfan23]

@@connorfearon3201 didn’t ask what?

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

@@connorfearon3201 didn't need that comment either

[@Constantine_Cvl8]

@@connorfearon3201 didn't ask for your comment either

[@a.e.t3215]

I got into the hobby because of you Cory . Thanks for “schooling” me .

[@popculture70]

In my 29 gallon, I have 7 neon tetras, 3 dwarf rainbow fish, 2 dwarf gouramis and about 40 shrimp. The shrimp do a great job on the algae and the gouramis eat the shrimplets when they can find them to keep the shrimp populstion in check. The neons hang out at the bottom of the tank, the rainbows at the top. The gouramis go wherever they want. It's a very peaceful and beautiful tank that I would definitely recommend.

[@NicoleShalan-ue3yw]

Lol, 6 platys, 8 cherry rasboras, 2 blk Mollys. In a 29, 4 pea buffers, ( 20 gal) 1 green spotted leopard puffer , baby, in 10 gal. 1 beta 5 gals. Trying to get snails to get at it, 20 gals 👀😂

[@chandangowda8275]

What kind of plants and soil you used?

[@feralon9570]

My 29 is a betta sorority with zebra danios for dithers, I know most people don't promote them but I love mine! I can lay for hours and watch them interact with the environment. They have tons of personality and don't just swim back and forth.

[@thenomadicsapien]

how many bettas do you have in your 29?

[@Shimoose]

let’s go, literally just found a 29 gal at goodwill. was hoping you’d upload this!!!

[@NickMillzzz]

Just got a 29, so this is perfect!! Lol, also a 20 long, 15, and another 10. MTS is so real, and dollar per gallon sales doesn't help, haha!

[@boloradoanthony6130]

Facts, I started with a 10 gallon 1 year ago and now I have 2 10 a 5 and an empty 20 long😂

[@DanBid100]

I started wit a 29, now i also have a 55 and a 10. MTS is very real!

[@canisteovalleydave]

Wait til you get into 40s, 75s, 125s and have 40 tanks! 😆 😆

[@canisteovalleydave]

I have 40 with water and livestock. Doesnt count the 130 other tanks in storage and the 6 ponds outside. Baaahaahaaa!! Its madness I tell ya

[@connorfearon3201]

Nick Miller didn’t ask

[@adron4845]

Hey Cory, just wanted to put in a request for a video on hexagonal/column tanks! I'm about to start up a 25G one, and I know they come with many caveats. Your team's knowledge on how best to approach the design, scaping, stocking and best maintenance practices for one of these would be a great resource!

[@marypaigeflynn4512]

Great video! Always love your stocking options!! Thank you for all you do Cory!! I hope you're having a great weekend!!

[@cynthiaponce2133]

My Angels laid eggs, next day or at least the whole night, my snails and Pleco were a a bunch of happy fish.

[@rhineholdboarman7197]

I just want to say thank you for all the great information and videos. I always watch and am interested in the advice you have.

[@abrahamames911]

You nailed the energy of the kind of fish video I want to watch.

[@donpettit7107]

You are truly an ambassador for the sport…I wonder how many budding aquarists you have advised and inspired. Bravo for your outreach to the masses…and for some truly great products.

[@rahamimdavidov5439]

The Apistogramma/cardinal/hatchet fish idea is so dope !

[@rochelle5882]

soo informative and helpful as always! great video, helped me so much especially since I'm new at fish keeping. I'm gettings 30 gallons soon and this was very helpful!

[@bettyb1313]

Keeping fish has helped my autistic daughter so much... How to stay calm how to be quit etc... Fishkeeping is so relaxing to special needs children

[@VinylUnboxings]

I know this will sound like crystals/oils BS, But do you want to hear about this study on a particularly dietary compound found in cruciferous vegetables, and the effect it had on the behavior of autistic children?

[@nathanielher9165]

Have a 29 gallon tank and what I have in there are 7 albino corydoras, 4 rummynose tetras (was 5 but the one actually died), 3 Odessa barbs, n 2 yellow bristlenose blue eye plecos.

[@crisp7018]

I have a 29 gallon and this was very helpful!!!

[@powdah6927]

Can’t wait to see the new setup at the new house!

[@aquariumtreasures1054]

Great ideas, always watch you to learn anything you need to know. 😊👍

[@colinpeake8494]

Like these ideas. I rock a planted 29 with platies. Haven’t bought fish in years.

[@CrazyRcguy12]

I just bought a 29 so this video just came out in time!

[@lanalovesjesus6133]

My goldfiah I got as a kid started out as about 1 to 2 inch fish. Lived for YEARS and we ended up putting them in my grandpa's pond with his other fish. Had plants and a waterfall and all. They got to be about 8 to 9 inches long. Very cool to see

[@eu100eueu]

Cant wait to make an aquariun with these stock tips!

[@lame2628]

got a 30 gallon a couple weeks ago and just couldn't figure out how to stock it, but now i'm thrilled at the prospect of an angelfish tank! i think i'm gonna get a pair of angels for it! may even go to your store since i'm in washington haha

[@vampgaia]

My 29 gallon houses my 6 pea puffers. It's planted with hardscape, so the fish have plenty of areas to claim as their own.

[@meduza93]

Yas yas yas thats what I was waiting for! Btw pls make a video about bigger sizes of aquariums! You're usually talking about small tanks (I get since thats what most people have) but I would love to hear your ideas for fish in sth like 100gal

[@TheOrdinaryGamertag]

Well this is convenient. I just posted on the forum I was starting a 29 gallon build!

[@johnlarsen8308]

First tank I remember having was the 29 stainless. My dad had 2 of them in the 60s. I took over them in the 70s

[@peacefulaqua6221]

Been wanting to start an angel tank, great suggestions ;)

[@randywheelhousekick4422]

If you like fancy goldfish but want multiple plus a planted tank I suggest balloon mollies! That’s what I have and I think they are an awesome little alternative for a 29 gal.

[@officialtl96]

The Goldfish keeping idea is awesome.

[@bm3aquatic]

I have rice fish, neon blue eye rainbow fish, and rummynose rasbora in my 29. Nice actIve tank. Great video 👍

[@phillipirvin4757]

Love the theme of stocking ideas throughout various tank sizes. 29 makes sense. Another great video! Would love to see one for a 65g one day. 😏

[@gingerdubre6721]

Have a 5 gallon, 2/20 gallon and a 10 gallon. Love them. But have a problem keeping one clear and foggy. Help.

[@phillipirvin4757]

Ginger Dubre What type of filtration, water change schedule, water conditioning products, feeding amount in relation to stock.

[@MaeDae9779]

I recently picked up a used (pretty heavily, but I can clean it up) 30 gallon.. and after I brought it home I thought "Oh.. Well.. Now what do I do with it?" I should have known that you guys would have a video about this size of tank!! *applause*

[@diegoantoniovargasparedes5584]

Very nice video. I’ll share my idea (actually how I stocked it). 7 panda mollies, 7 red eye tetras and 7 Corydoras paleatus. Don’t forget to add lots of plants. Hopefully this also helps :)

[@scigeek4fun]

Cory I love your videos and ideas. Your site is an excellent reference for ALL levels of interest. No doubt that you are a busy man. Can you please create organized folders for easier access to information? I'm searching and searching but can't find the right videos that I am looking for. Keep up the great work. Your site is one of the best about this amazing hobby. 🐠🐡 😍

[@MrPaulmilk]

Thank you always great videos 📹 👍

[@damionmarkham9835]

Right on Boss , I have hard water and I'm getting away from heaters but I'm tempted to do a 29 with rams and Hypancistris with my remineralized shrimp water and possibly tropica soil . The green aqua gurus recommend cooler temperatures to reduce algea so there is always a fly in the ointment.

[@joeorton1218]

Planting my 55 tank as I write here in puertp rico just purchased you're easy green fertilizer good videos keep them coming

[@rekabharas9904]

Hopefully you do a video on why you are moving and the new place and if you have plants for a new fish room and koi pond, etc.

[@timothywijkstrom5844]

Love the video !!!

[@danhousley5914]

My son and I love your vids..

[@PutSomeTwazOnIt]

I’m going to get my first 29 gallon fish tank!

[@shorkie8799]

I have a 36 gallon but this is close enough. Thanks!

[@1038994]

i agree with him that rosy barbs are chill for barbs.

[@boabfawcett]

Rosy barbs and black rosy barbs are amazing community fish I keep them in my tank, fast and friendly

[@optix7591]

I have a 29 and I'm going to put one convict cichlid in it and I can't wait :)

[@DahLekKnight]

I still haven't tried the Bamboo Shrimp with my goldfish (the store stopped carrying them), but the Hillstream Loaches are having an awesome time in the tank, as are the Rost Barbs!

[@dar213311]

I love that someone as esteemed as yourself in the fish hobby doesn't knock on Glofish. I have 5 Glo Red Tiger Barbs and one Green Tiger Barb in a 20 Gallon tall (with 2 nerite snails) that I've kept for 3 years now. They are my favorite out of my 5 tanks. I call it my "Spiderverse Tank" now. Five Spidermen with a giant Green Goblin. The Glo guys don't grow as big or fast for sure. Green Goblin quickly took over as head honcho even though I added him last as a baby.

[@bakeface_]

I just moved my pair of Angels into a 29g tank on Wednesday! They grew up in a 20g tank, and I was looking everywhere for a vertical tank to move them to and my mom just so happen to shut down her 29g vertical tank ! I took the remaining 4 fish, put them in the 40g community tank and deep cleaned it. The tank was littered with algae.. I had to use a lot of elbow grease to get her sparking. The angels are SO happy now!

[@jimmygimbal]

Awesome!

[@9latinumStudioz]

Those bubblers are cool 🤙✨

[@SusanforSLCAquatics]

Thank Cory liked and shared ❤️

[@MusicLassy]

I have a 29 that I'm about to stock. My idea is to get a few guppies, snails, kuhli loaches, and neon tetras. I'm gonna do more research before going ahead with this idea, but I'm pretty excited to move over my snails to the 29 gallon :) The entire thing is planted, I just need to wait for the roots to grow in.

[@MidnightGeekSS]

yay thanks

[@ScottParisi]

Trying to plan my strategy for an unheated tank in my basement. 65° - 71° year round. Enjoying your channel and I'm your newest subscriber.

[@cupangmenyupang179]

AMEZING 😍😍😍😍

[@andrewspeedyatkinson]

Thanks Cory

[@dianemurray8379]

great ideas!

[@samantha_6505]

My favorite type of video 😍👍 only issue is i dont have aquarium co-op here so i can get the best fish

[@shesellsfish]

My grandaughter was gifted a new-to-her 29 g. She has her heart set on guppies, all different pretty guppies. A child after your own heart, Cory. 👍💓👍

[@benvarley2927]

Green Tiger barbs and (original) rainbow shark are what I'm doing with my 30! Got a bristlenose pleco, other then that a clear tank with black substrate and a few pieces of drift wood!

[@melissawittner70]

YES! More unheated options, please!

[@bradleygonzalez530]

Awesome i dont have a 29 but still good to know for when i do 😂😂

[@jtiso2395]

How did you know I just picked up two thirty gallon tanks :) What I'd like to know is what to do with this 5' long 20 gallon. It came with a current 48" LED, I think the person who had this used it for frags. Anyway I find you and your channel very entertaining and informative.

[@leeh9520]

I've learned so much watching your videos Thank You I have a weird sized aquarium acrylic 47 gallon could you please do a video on say a 46 gallon stocking ideas like the largest center piece fish I could have choosing schooling fish is easy thanks to your videos No one seems to include 46 gallon tanks they always jump to 55 gallon from a 29 thanks

[@barneydefanfaler4760]

thnx fish guy

[@matthewzito6130]

I have two 30-gallon tanks right now. One has six Black Skirt Tetras, six Green Corydoras with one Bolivian Ram and one Bristlenose Pleco. The other has six Giant Danios and one Bristlenose Pleco.

[@elvishopper4495]

Hi, I was wondering your thoughts on having a community of Panda Cory, green neons, Odessa barbs and forktail rainbowfish for the top. Trying to decide on some good variety of colors and shapes that are peaceful for a new 29 gal tank. Thanks for your videos!

[@ALOJZYVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV]

Nice tank💥👍😀

[@AlexGames306]

Super!!!!!!

[@insanesnow1]

This a great idea. Thanks for the tips! Which kind of plants are at 1:14 with the hatchet fish? I’d like to get some of those.

[@eric21881]

got myself a 29 gallon tank lined up and THOUGHT i was doing two geo cichlids two peacock cichlids and three red hook silver dollars. I dont think i have the space it would take but luckily angelfish were on the list of fish i wanted at some point while i was shopping around so im gonna go back that route and add some stuff to that

[@lauchlanstill6677]

Oh my I just got a survey asking about my add experience on KZbin and awful was an option 😂😂😂

[@want.to.b3.gamer670]

My 29 gal is just tetras. 13 Black neons. 13 Neons and 7 embers. A lot of plants. Been a month. They're doing good. Embers are the shy bottom neon are going everywhere and the black neons stay at top.

[@mr.deepweb2475]

Awesome

[@aidenmohrmann1850]

I just might try that first idea... I had thought about maybe a school of Harlequin Rasbora's or Danios with a Dwarf Gourami, or maybe a Tiger Barb species only tank...

[@Rivcuban]

Hi Cory. Love your videos! I have a question. Is seeding aquariums to grow a lush carpet of plants in your aquarium legit?

[@crisp7018]

Never clicked faster!

[@Chibeagle]

lol ditto. I got a 29 gallon running with plants from Aquarium coop and still haven't decided what to do with it yet. Got Cherry shrimp, Otto and some snails atm.

[@JasonBodine]

Any recommendations a good freshwater for a puffer that's 1)good for a 29 gallon tank, 2) relatively inexpensive, and 3) available in the USA during this pandemic mess? i wanted to get Carinotetradon irrubesco but they're not available right now.

[@yepperdeedooda]

All I know is I miss seeing the tiger barbs in the 600 gallon tank.

[@syrusdavyrus3522]

I think its 800 gallons I wish I had a tank that big!

[@jaxntax5509]

With my 2 29 gallon tanks one has a purple glo shark three Congo Tetras and there black phantom Tetras as well as one Norman Lampeye killie fairly well planted and has floaters. Other is well wanted with 8 otocinclus and 4 harlequin Rasboras and a male half black half red metalhead guppy male. Snails in all tanks and cul shrimp in to tank.

[@oliviergranger-fafard7147]

Little question for you, I started my 29 Tall tank with lot of plant last month and my plan is to put 6 otocinclus, after that, 10 rummy nose, 8 hachet fish and finish with two dwarf cichlidé. Will my tank be overpopulated ? I Searched a lot to find top middle and buttom fish who will go well together 😁

[@k0olmini11]

what I've been looking for my entire life

[@LaylaDailyVlogs]

i am new to the fishkeeping thing but my 29 has 2 dwarf gouramis, 12 white clouds, a few mollies, and 6 porkchop rasboras. I may add an angel at some point. Love my t ank!

[@LaylaDailyVlogs]

also 4 corys.

[@tyrannotitan6406]

Does anyone else watching this actually has a 29 Gallon because I don't

[@kerryfiddler9530]

My classroom room does.

[@epikz6]

I am going to get one soon

[@Lifebydeath]

Just bought one contemplating my next future tank😂. I’ve got 2 10s(1set up with 1/2moon king betta planted other for quarantine for now) the new 29 cycling(going to add a small amount and watch ammonia, nitrates the water condition and nitrifying bacteria accordingly) then a 55 gallon that’s been going 15 years😂

[@trapkingproductions]

Yuhp I purposely looked this video up.

[@EmoPrincxss666]

Lol I have a 28 gal and its cycling rn I'm trying to figure out what to put in it later

[@rrrrrr-ry3cn]

The aneus ( bronze) cory can also live in unheated aquariom, my have bred in 15c and lived fine even as low as 10c

[@matthewcutter8760]

Would the rosy barbs pair well with bristlenose plecos? We have an established tank at work that currently only has plecos and needs some color and movement.

[@ianprososki6804]

What are some cool ideas for a 36 gallon hexagon tank? I really want a peacock eel but unsure if it's large enough

[@uoraziel]

❤❤ i like the angel fish ideas what sort of plants can i ad to a tank like this? Do i want some rocks? Or such?

[@SuperRAJORSHI]

Im now making an establised 80 ltr. Tank of native plants like hornwort,some kind of water grass i got from a local pond and some red lillies & some native moss, with local river mangrove root drift wood....just added a pair of longfin german ram..they are doin good...aiming to add half dozen of angels to it next....contacted a local angel breeder...he promised me about half a dozen of his best red head yellow angels....gonna get it next week and let you know how that goes....

[@AbdulHameed-xd6ke]

Your awesome

[@gamerrex953]

need advice i just watch you video but i want to know i have a 45 gallon planted tank and i just worry about the Eco complete for my plant what i saying is it safe for my 2 fancy goldfish because Eco complete have big rock size and i don t want them to choke on them also will i need to up grade later to a bigger tank for my goldfish

[@oliverblackhall]

What a perfect time I was thinking of setting up a smaller tank!

[@amym.4823]

:-) Hehehe! I set up a 29 this year and we call it "the big tank."

[@oliverblackhall]

@@amym.4823 Haha nice! I've got smaller 10 gallons for breeding guppies and other live bearers, corys and neons and for angel fish and discus grow outs but my 80 gallon south American setup is my pride and joy. In my new 30 gallon I think I'm going to try breeding apistogroamas or another dwarf cichlid! Happy fish keeping

[@RDlol321]

Once I get my 29 I already got an idea of what I wanna stock it with 1 Angelfish 8 Hatchetfish 8 Neon Tetras 6 Panda Corys Maybe shrimp but prob not If you have any suggestions I greatly appreciate it

[@leo2o915]

Cory can you make one for a 45 bowfront? And for a rimless 45 bowfront what kind of top you recommend i saw the lid they sell for it comes with a light

[@MichaelSmith-kh8zr]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Psieks]

Hi Cory, do you think you could make a "Best ideas for your tall fish tank" video? Hexagon aquariums have a lot of challenges and I'm learning to work with them now that I'm refurbishing a 50G hex. I'd love to hear your take on how to appropriately stock an aquarium that's almost as tall as I am when it's on the stand!

[@AquariumCoop]

Unlikely I’d make a video about it. Take the dimensions of the bottom which would be close to a 20g high and build it like that with 3 levels of fish

[@Psieks]

@@AquariumCoop Thanks for the reply! The bottom is 375 square inches if my math is correct (each side on the hex is 12"). I'm hopeful that I can safely stock 4 angels and a pair of Bolivian rams but have no experience with taller tanks and overstocking is a pretty big fear of mine. I'd love to see taller tanks come back into the mainstream, this is what enabled me to return to the hobby since I can't keep aquariums that have larger footprints.

[@evilpanther990]

We need a 20 long stocking ideas 👍

[@brainchasm]

Evil Panther school of corys, school of glow stick tetras, mess of cherry shrimps.