those are some tough dimensions!
seems to me like you would want to get fish that live at different levels, but i dont think you would want anything too big or anything that likes to run, since you don't have too much horizontal straight line room to work with.
i would probably go:
some kind of cory: i have found peppers to be the most hardy, but also large and brutish, so make sure any carpet is established before introduction.
I am fond of pandas, but they can be sensitive, especially to any spikes in temp or nitrogen cycle.
I found juli's to be boring, didn't school as well and hid a lot, but others report differnt results.
gourami for a center piece. i have never kept angels but dont hear the best things when it comes to small (little room to run) tanks. gouramis only hate each other for the most part.
a tetra school for the low-mid: for me, glolights and lemons schooled better than phantoms or neons, but i havent kept many
a rasbora school for the high-mid: for me, the harlequins schooled better than any tetra and were less nippy, but very capable of getting their share of food, even in the presence of the stomach with fins aka rainbows in the tank.
all of this, of course, depends on level of current, temp, hardness and planting density.
seems to me like you would want to get fish that live at different levels, but i dont think you would want anything too big or anything that likes to run, since you don't have too much horizontal straight line room to work with.
i would probably go:
some kind of cory: i have found peppers to be the most hardy, but also large and brutish, so make sure any carpet is established before introduction.
I am fond of pandas, but they can be sensitive, especially to any spikes in temp or nitrogen cycle.
I found juli's to be boring, didn't school as well and hid a lot, but others report differnt results.
gourami for a center piece. i have never kept angels but dont hear the best things when it comes to small (little room to run) tanks. gouramis only hate each other for the most part.
a tetra school for the low-mid: for me, glolights and lemons schooled better than phantoms or neons, but i havent kept many
a rasbora school for the high-mid: for me, the harlequins schooled better than any tetra and were less nippy, but very capable of getting their share of food, even in the presence of the stomach with fins aka rainbows in the tank.
all of this, of course, depends on level of current, temp, hardness and planting density.
