cactusdoug

My favs would be...

Rummy nose Tetras, they constantly stay in a group swimming back and forth.

Black Neon Tetras, school almost as much as the Rummy Nose

Harlequin Rasboras, they're just so pretty.

White Cloud Mountain Minnows, also very pretty.

And for a species tank because they are a bit nippy, Serpae Tetras. Once they settle in they get a beautiful smokey pink in color.

And if you put at least 6 cory cats in a tank they will almost never leave the side of their buddies.

Cheers, CD

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

Idiopathogen

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?

shannon

I know they are not your traditional schooling fish, but a group of Dwarf neon rainbows are beautiful in a planted aquarium Neon tetras are another of my favorites...

What do you think of Diamond tetras or Congo tetras? Under the right light these guys are beautiful!!!

Shannon

sjogren1

Blood Fin, Congo and Lemon Tetra have worked well for me in the past, but the 'must have' has got to be Harlequins. IMHO, the best schooler (and they look so good with Crypts!).

Anafranil

Definetly cardinal tetras although I had a lot of problems and found them very sensitive during the past

Gomer

I recently picked up 40 lemon tetras....OMG!!!!! They school like they are tied with invisible string!!!

david lim

Yea lemon tetras have been commonly overlooked. I normally recommend these as hardy schoolers. And the red eye with the yellow body is killer. nice buy gomer.

bharada

Here are my Triginostigma (Rasbora) hengliis schooling in my 125g tank.

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awrieger

Hi Gomer. What part of the tank do your Lemons swin in? The top half or third?

I'm about to set up a 4x2x2 'hairgrss lawn' tank and I'm not sure whether to get Rummy Noses to swim down around grass level, or Lemons to swim in the open water.

I'm leaning towards getting Lemons right now as I really do like the subtle red spot on the eye of Lemons. In my current planted tank I have Zebra Danios and Silver Tip tetras which I like because in large numbers the tank is alive with activity, yet they're not bright and colourful enough that they dominate the view.