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Old 10-10-2006, 07:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I just added 50 Rummynose Tetras in my 180 with my seven Angels. I added them because the general consensus seems to be that they are the tightest schooling fish The Rummies are not schooling. They're happily investigating the tank. Maybe after they've settled in?
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Old 06-06-2005, 11:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I like the Redline Shark for schooling fish. They swim very closely to each others and I love watching them eat because they really eat like sharks. As they get older, the red line will go from their eyes to almost to their tail. I have 5 Redline Sharks, 6 Electric Blue Jack Dempseys, 1 Redtail Shark, 3 SAE and 5 Congo Tertas. I enjoy watching swim across the tank. They all get along fine.

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Old 06-20-2005, 01:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
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long-finned zebra danios are my personal favorite...in my tank they school very well but some people seem to have trouble with them schooling
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Old 07-02-2005, 03:10 PM   #4 (permalink)
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MMM,
My Personal top 3 (actually 4):

1) Hyphessobrycon amandea
2) nannostomus (beckfordi/marginatus)
3) Boraras brigitta
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I've actually been a little disappointed by my Congo Tetras lack of schooling. After a lot of reading, I was expecting schooling behavior and got 12 small juveniles from my LFS. They really only schooled until they settled into my planted tank. Now, they're scattered throughout the open areas, and only "get together" as a school when one gets a notion to dash the length of the tank, and the others fall into formation and follow. This only lasts a few seconds, and then they disband. There has also been a lot of spawning behavior, with males purposely segragating a heavy female away from the others.

My pygmy cory cats are WAY better schoolers, LOL!

I also have red-line rasboras that stay in a group, and I would rate them as moderate in schooling behavior. They don't stray far from the group, but they don't do a lot of swimming in unison which seems to be the desire of this thread.

And in yet another tank, a group of Gold Ring Danios (have not been able to identify them, I've tried) is so constantly in a busy cluster that I can't tell if there is much schooling behavior or not. I swear they know if I even look towards their tank, and group at the customary feeding area in a mad rush. I would have to say they don't have any real schooling tendency, except on occasion if they're startled.

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my favorite are serpae tetra, i have 6 in my 5g and they keep a tight school and look great, goes very well with lots of green and a couple red plants, like sunset hygro or red tiger lotus, i love the red colours.
only problem is that only 5 of them school and one sits at the back and only comes out to eat, after he has had his fill he disappears,
they are also the easiest tetra to breed mine are always laying eggs but the rest of them always eat them before they hatch, the shrimp dont help with that either.
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Easily Hengel's Rasbora. Well, any rasbora for that matter. But I am a tad biased, I love SE Asian fish.
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Caught some Rasbora kalochroma's. Fantastic schoolers...
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Were Rasbora trilineata already mentioned? They should have been!
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