20H Stocking Ideas- Nanofish

[kayleyface]

I've been kicking around the idea of starting a tank with nanofish. I have an old 20H sitting around still, which I shut down about half a year ago. I originally intended to go with a smaller tank, but I already have this one and it will give me plenty of options.

I used to keep celestial pearl danio, goldring danio (danio tinwini), and emerald dwarf rasbora (danio erythromicron) and was thinking about setting up a tank with those again.

If I get 8 (or even more) of each, I still have plenty of room for more fish.

I would love to keep the fish not much bigger than an inch. I was thinking maybe threadfin rainbows, cherry shrimp, and/or pygmy cories. Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[brennae]

Have you ever kept scarlet badis (dario dario)? they are super cute and have personalities IMO. I prefer the cory habrosus (sp?) over the pygmy cory. They are just a tad bigger. what about ember tetras? I think CPD are beautiful so if you go with those you can't go wrong!

 

[azmodan]

Clown killies, threadfin rainbows, spotted blue eyed rainbows, and furcata rainbows are all good options for the top. To contrast with the CPDs I agree that ember tetras or chili rasboras would be another good addition.


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[kayleyface]

I've looked at scarlet badis in the past. They're gorgeous little fish, that remind me a lot of my blue rams in my 55gal. The only thing that's always worried me is I've heard they're very picky about food.

Ember tetras are pretty. How are they personality-wise? I'll be honest, I tend not to think of tetras because both times I've had them they thrashed the other fish in my tank, even though they were in schools. But I imagine smaller tetra might not be so bad?

I do like the look of cory habrosus, thanks for the recommendation!

 

[kayleyface]

I've read a fair bit about threadfins, I'll have to look into the other two though, they look interesting.

Chilli rasbora were also recommended to me by a friend and I think they might be my favorite new fish I've learned about in the past day or so.

 

[brennae]

My scarlet badis only eat frozen foods. I'm trying to entice them to eat other things but it's not a huge deal for me. Ember tetras are not my favorite personality wise. They are pretty but not as personable as scarlet badis and they chase each other around.

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[kayleyface]

Thank you everyone for the post ideas. I actually ended up swapping my 20H for a 15 Column (better space profile for my space, even if it's more limiting fish-wise).

With nice shortcuts taken in cycling my tank thanks to bio-media from my 55 gallon, I now have a fully cycled, fully inhabited, heavily planted, southeast Asian biotope nanotank.

My stocking list is:
7 Burmese Gold Ring Danio (danio tinwini)
6 Celestial Pearl Danio (danio margaritus)
6 Chili/Mosquito Rasbora (boraras brigittae)
6 Rosy Loaches (yunnanilus sp. rosy)

I must say, I got very lucky at being able to track down some truly interesting fish locally and all will be barely longer than an inch at most.

I decided to forgo the dwarf emeral rasbora and I'm hoping the loaches are okay in the strange footprint, otherwise I can move them to another tank. Once the tank the fish are established, I'll post pics.

 

[jennandjuicetm]

Pictures please! I love nano fish! I have habrosus and threadfins, they are awesome. The habrosus are really active and fly over the whole tank.

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