Best schooling fish?

[kmny34]

What fish in your opinion is the best schooling fish and why?

 

[Rivercats]

Rummynose Tetras are the tightest schooling fish I've kept in the 30+ years I've been in the hobby. My schools have always stayed together and pretty tight. I have 25 now in my 220g and they always school.

 

[kmny34]

Rummynose Tetras are the tightest schooling fish I've kept in the 30+ years I've been in the hobby. My schools have always stayed together and pretty tight. I have 25 now in my 220g and they always school.

Do they stick together in smaller groups like that also? A group of 5 or 6?

 

[tweediebrd]

Most tetras stay together pretty tight. One friend of mine has 40 neon tetras in a tank and I can honestly say it is amazing.

Another cool schooling "fish" is kuhli loaches. If you have ever seen a group of 10+ they look amazing swimming around, it is more of a chaotic schooling though, zig zagging back and forth quickly rather than synchronized.

Other schooling fish-zebra danios, tiger barbs, jewel barbs, cardinal tetras, serpae tetras, citrus tetras, emperor blue tetras, (once saw a group of bala sharks)

 

[BalloonBellies]

Neon tetras will school but as they get more accustomed to their surroundings they start to spread out. Mine go all over and stay in loose groups. I heard rummy nose tetras are good schoolers

 

[Borderlesscott]

Rummynose, Lemon and Penguin Tetra all seem to group up well in large numbers. Silver and Marbled Hatchet fish stay really tight as do Glass Catfish for an alternative selection.

 

[Rivercats]

Do they stick together in smaller groups like that also? A group of 5 or 6?

Yes, they literally are the tightest schooling fish I've ever kept.