Top Dwellers?

[SparKy697]

Below is a list of my livestock. I'm pretty heavy with bottom and mid dwellers. While I get an occasional peek at a cardinal or a rummy nose, most of what I see other than plants is the belly of an oto.

Any suggestions for peaceful top dwellers other than angels?

 

[Stephen]

Zebra danios are pretty active. Another nice alternative would be hatchets.

 

[rich311k]

Moved to general fresh water.

Maybe a gourami or two.

 

[dapellegrini]

Marble Hatchets are by far my favorite top dweller...

 

[Gillie]

I like the native gold top minnows. You can't go wrong with a bright yellow fish with gold fleck scales, and red fins.

 

[STARFYRE]

I'm gonna second that emotion about the hatchet idea. I think they're great. Another awesome top dweller is the african butterfly fish, but I'm not sure if it will be ok with the other tankmates. It may go after the cardinals? Then again, I kept celebes rainbows in a tank with a butterfly fish and it never bothered them. You said you have cardinals, rummynose and otos. Anything else in the tank?

 

[SparKy697]

6 - Cardinal tetra, 4 - Rummy nose tetra, 3 - Schwartz's cory, 3 - SAE, 3 - Oto cats

 

[zenkatydid]

i also like danios, greedy little buggers. they love the top, though will swim everywhere. hatchets i have heard are dedicated top dwellers and look so cool.

 

[Stephen]

Just make sure you have tight-fitting lid if you decide to go with hatchets. They're olympic jumpers.

 

[Musket]

I was going to say something about those hatchet jumps but Stephen beat me to it. THey will flip out of a tiney tiny opening too.
I love the long finnned blue danios. They stay mostlyat the top of my one tank, but go all over in the other (though mostly the top 1/3). The leopards are pretty interesting too.

How about a brig snail. Although they will go all over, they do add a nice splash of color.

 

[SparKy697]

Snails I have... Boy do I have snails

I'm leaning towards the danios. I like some of the colors I have seen. The hatchets look like they have a big belly lol. I'm a bit sensitive to that look, if you know what I mean

 

[physicsdude]

Hmmm. How about some african butterfly fish? They're really cool. I had one for a long time; he loved to eat flake food and crickets! I mean he used to line those insects up and dash at them, sometimes jumping out of the water to do so!

Here's a link:

http://www.centralpets.com/animals/fish/freshwater_fish/fwf4473.html

 

[confusion]

I have zebra danios in a 55G tank and the ALL cruise the bottom of the tank. It's heavily planted, and I think they like to weave in and out of the plants.

 

[flip_lx]

i second zebra danios got 2 left now(rest jumped out of my tank) very very active little fish, my guppy lives all around mid-top of the tank hardly goes down to bottom. Sailfin mollies are very nice as well, i have a couple(male/female) that stick to mid and top tank usually active and colorful

 

[SparKy697]

Picked up 6 zebras today. These guys are wearing me out just watching them. They are the fitness instructors of my tank. All of the tetras seem to follow the zebras around, it makes for a lot of interesting movement in the tank.

 

[neilanh]

Nice, Congrats on you new acquisitions!

 

[SparKy697]

Hmmm. How about some african butterfly fish? They're really cool. I had one for a long time; he loved to eat flake food and crickets! I mean he used to line those insects up and dash at them, sometimes jumping out of the water to do so!

Here's a link:

http://www.centralpets.com/animals/fish/freshwater_fish/fwf4473.html

Wow those are interesting fish.

 

[STARFYRE]

On page 1 in my gallery, bottom row, 2nd picture, I have a pic of my African butterfly fish. Check it out. It's not the best photography in the world, but it's the best shot I could get of him.