Adding new 'companions' to an existing school of fish - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

edlut67 · 05-13-2008, 11:26 AM

I was wondering whether one can add new fish (barbs) to an existing school.

Thanks

overboard · 05-13-2008, 07:33 PM

I have done it with rosy barbs and zebra danios. The rosy barbs went great from the start, it took the danios a few days. The problem there was when the signal went out to their little danio brains to tear about wildly, the new ones didn't know which way to go at first, and there were collisions.

oregon aqua · 05-13-2008, 08:21 PM

adding them at night helps. like a night invasion/infiltration.

ranchwest · 05-13-2008, 08:48 PM

If the two sets of fish are of fairly similar size it should work. As usual, adequate tank size and plenty of plants help. Also, the new fish should be from a reliable source or be quarantined to build up their strength (plus the other health issues that quarantining is intended to resolve).

Adragontattoo · 05-14-2008, 04:58 AM

The only issue I have ever had with adding more fish to a school is when I added a totally different school.

I put Praecox into my 50br (they schooled straight into the net when I was trying to catch other fish), the Emerald eyes all freaked out at the site of fish 10x their size.