Best Schooling Fish for Planted Tanks - Page 13 - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

DanD5303 · 02-21-2007, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by jcbyrne

I have a heavily planted 60 gallon long tank. I just added a 10 fish school of rummy nose. They are schooling fine at the bottom. What tetras would occuy the middle to upper level? Thanks.....Janice

Emerald Eyed Rasboras

standoyo · 02-22-2007, 09:52 AM

Not a tetra but Trigonostigma espei-lambchop rasbora!

247Plants · 02-24-2007, 01:38 PM

I just got 7 brilliant rasboras for my 60 gallon and they school VERY tightly.....

Got them for 42 cents apiece too at petsmart!

Overfloater · 02-24-2007, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 247Plants

I just got 7 brilliant rasboras for my 60 gallon and they school VERY tightly.....

Got them for 42 cents apiece too at petsmart!

I had a similar experience. I had these fish for over a year and they would not break school.

eisg · 02-25-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by houseofcards

I wonder what people feel about flow and schooling. I had a group of 10 Gold Tetras in my 12g for about a year. The 12g had a strong flow and more surface agitation due to an aquaclear HOB. This group of gold tetra were always together, always. I recently took down the 12g and was excited to see the same behavior in my 72g, but now they are scattered around the tank most of the time just like my cardinals. Their isn't a larger fish in either tank. I've also notice during water changes the fish school better and that would coincede with more water agitation and flow as well.

not sure about flow, but my 6 skirt tetras tend to only school when they are afraid. Otherwise it's no school. Same with blue tetras. No school. Instead 8 neons schooling nicely. I don't know wether adding fish would do the trick now all has been established and I don't want to go OS either.

ruger45 · 02-27-2007, 07:39 PM

The Cardinals are the best IMO.

edlut67 · 03-20-2007, 09:25 AM

My tiger barbs are 'schooling like a train' using the whole tank, no. 1 is chasing no.2, no.2 is chasing no.3 etc.. and no. 15 is chasing no. 1 again. The whole day they're at 'school', busy with and among eachother.
When it is about time to go to sleep, approx. 1 hour before the lights go out they all seem tired 'training' and are schooling closely together until the next morning when their 'school-training' starts all over again.

JERP · 03-20-2007, 10:17 AM

For larger fish, I once saw a school of 4" two spot Ticto barbs schooling like Rasboras. Angels school very nicely, if you have a big tank.

Genin · 03-20-2007, 08:18 PM

The serpae tetras I have in my planted tank shoal together very nicely.

YzMxer99 · 04-07-2007, 11:31 AM

Hemigrammus rhodostomus! Rummy-Nose! I've got some in with cardnals in the 29g. Those guys school all day long. They hold tighter than the cardnals and tigers that I have or had. Part of it may be the 4" SAE that is a s.o.b. that tries to "school" with the rummy's. I would love to get a longer tank, i.e. 2 29's end to end, to see the school get some running room.

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