Best Schooling Fish for Planted Tanks - Page 16 - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

Idiopathogen · 09-06-2008, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ryuken168

The best schooling fish I ever worked with are the following.
1. Rummynose Tetras - Barnone the best.
2. True SAE - amazing long lines.
3. Cardinal Tetras - I use this a lot.
4. Glowlight Tetras - Nice orange w/ white tips
5. Rasbora Hengeli
6. Veiltail Angels

I went to purchase Rummy Nose Tetras for the first time yesterday based on this thread, and there was only 4 left. The LFS was closing and the clerk was in a hurry, and so I quickly pointed out some nicely schooling glowing orange fish, and so they sold me 10 "Rasbora engeli" so called.

Pretty sure they are Rasbora Hengeli (Trigonostigma hengeli.), and they school VERY nicely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlapDhiEy_M

A lot of the threads and web sites say these are rare. How rare are they? Should I breed them?

pmoy · 02-15-2009, 06:05 PM

I have 3 harlequins with 3 black rasboras in a 20 Gal. They school together nicely. They don't seem to notice that they are not the same type of fish at all. I am thinking about adding a couple more of each.

Valthenya · 02-15-2009, 06:27 PM

my all time fave is an amandae tetra.. other wise known as Ember tetras

hedson_25 · 02-24-2009, 07:23 AM

hey what about goldfish?

yves2013 · 02-27-2009, 07:07 PM

the most beautiful schooling fish in my opinion is the lampeye killi (normani).

Knotty Bitz · 03-11-2009, 03:49 PM

Celectial pearl danios are really nice small fish, as well as glowlight danios.

Knotty Bitz · 03-11-2009, 03:50 PM

Dennison Barbs are really pretty too except they are pretty expensive.

OneDaySale · 03-19-2009, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by fishfan

I discovered the Bloodfin Tetra recently while looking at the fish store for something different. I had seen descriptions of it before in books under a fish called the Argentinian tetra but didn't know this was also called bloodfin. I have to say it is one of the neatest tetras there is in my opinion. The look of them in a planted tank is just awesome with the small bit of red on the fins/ white body in contrast to the green plants. Plus I have found them very active and hardy as heck.
However, I actually think a plain old zebra danio school looks neat in a planted tank as well with something reddish or more colored added in. Such as a couple of reddish colored plants or maybe another school of white clouds to provide some color differences.

I put 10 bloodfin tetras in my dad's tank several months ago and they are awesome - they will separate, then recongregate into a tight grouping when people approach the tank. Their color (mainly white, with the red tipped finnage, and a slight metallic-green tint to the body) is a great contrast to the greens in the tank.

mkeevil · 03-22-2009, 03:37 PM

ops this was in the wrong post... how do I delete?

peacock · 05-23-2009, 03:13 PM

I like my serpae tetras