55 Gallon Rainbowfish

[CatoeSc]

If you were to set up a 55 to feature rainbows, how would you stock?

 

[Philly33]

Signifiers, about 45 of them.

 

[CatoeSc]

If you kept about 6 of the larger rainbows, what else would you keep w/ them?

 

[Mebbid]

You can really keep just about anything with them. They are a very hardy sturdy fish. I keep my praecox rainbows with harlequin rasbora, angels, and synodontis petricola.

 

[Camescu]

I've got praecox in mine. Tank mates include a pearl gourami, platys and neon and lemon tetras.

 

[CatoeSc]

That sounds good. Do they have large mouths? Just wondering if she could get away with shrimp in the tank with them.

 

[Camescu]

Not excessively large. But the have narrow throats. Yes, shrimp are safe.

 

[Mebbid]

Shrimp are relatively safe. I saw my biggest rainbow try to eat one of mine and he couldn't swallow it. Just swam around a bit with a shrimp sticking out of its mouth before spitting it out.

 

[Camescu]

RCS? My Amanos are far too big for rainbow mouths. Having said that, pretty sure my Praecox are still juvenile.

 

[Mebbid]

The wild type of RCS but yeah. Basically a RCS

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

I love my turquoise rainbows. You can get wide color variations in the same species ( I've had ones that were an emerald green and ones that were a dark blue to almost black and everything in between)

 

[Raleighfishnerd]

My rainbows eat ghost shrimp all the time they just tear them to shreds

 

[CatoeSc]

So, after getting my sisters tank all set up with rainbows, she bought a couple of blood parrots?


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[Eggheadfish]

I have boesemanis and they did show some aggression toward other fish, but it was due to a territory and sex ratio issue. They haven't bothered any other fish since it was sorted out. I kept them with silver dollars, tetras, harlequin raspboras, swordtails, cories, and angelfish at different points in time.