What fish can live in my tank

Question
Dear Karen,
I have a 300 galloon freshwater tank. I have 3 honey gourami, 1 dwarf gourami, 1 rainbow sahrk, 2 clown loaches and 1 common pleco. I want to get some more fish for the tank as I feel it is pretty empty. There is also an aquarium plant and some water lettuce inside. Thanks Karen.

Answer
Dear Jet,
What a wonderful tank!

Sounds like you are going for a community aquarium with several different species present at the moment. One thing you might want to consider is if this should be a "Biotope" Aquarium with species of fish all from one general region of the world? All fish from South America, for example?

The current fish you have primarily reside from Southeast Asia (except for the pleco) and you can build quite a beautiful fascinating display with species from that part of the world. Schools of Rasboras and colorful Barbs, fast swimming Danios... Gouramis with their graceful natures. Loaches, Glass catfish, Glassfish and even the striking bala sharks are quite lovely fish.

If you'd rather not follow a particular 'theme'... your choices in fish are quite unlimited with the wonderful size of your aquarium. You may like having many different schools of fish including shimmering tetra species, colorful livebearers such as platies, swordtails, or guppies. The unusual silver and marbled hatchetfish. The bold and gorgeous barbs such as rosy, gold, tiger, cherry, and ruby barb species. As well as a school of corydoras catfish to provide activity on the bottom. These little catfish are much fun to watch and you can mix different species of corydoras and they will entertain you with their playful schooling behavior and an added plus is they have a completely peaceful nature.

I do hope this has given you some ideas on how to stock your aquarium!

I'm sure whatever you decide on it will be absolutely beautiful!

I do hope this helps and best wishes,
Karen~