Advice on a schooling group of fish

[quisemarboy]

What are your ideas for some schooling fish for a 46 gallon bow-front tank

 

[Rosenweiss]

What a question! If you have peaceful tank mates, the options are VERY wide open. Tetras, danios, and rasboras come to mind. What kind of fish do you like? And what else is in there?

 

[allaboutfish]

colors? planted non planted? tank mates?

 

[quisemarboy]

What a question! If you have peaceful tank mates, the options are VERY wide open. Tetras, danios, and rasboras come to mind. What kind of fish do you like? And what else is in there?

I only have two mickey mouse platy fish

 

[quisemarboy]

colors? planted non planted? tank mates?

I have a basic rock background. No real plants and two platy fish

 

[allaboutfish]

really you want to look at some fish and then come here with the fish you like bc there are sooo many that there is no way to list them. oh and i see you also live in TN. i'll be in knoxville in a couple of weeks on vacation.

 

[quisemarboy]

really you want to look at some fish and then come here with the fish you like bc there are sooo many that there is no way to list them. oh and i see you also live in TN. i'll be in knoxville in a couple of weeks on vacation.

That's great. Knoxville is nice. I like neon tetra

 

[allaboutfish]

neon tetras are great but maybe look into cardinals. lots of neons die.

 

[quisemarboy]

really you want to look at some fish and then come here with the fish you like bc there are sooo many that there is no way to list them. oh and i see you also live in TN. i'll be in knoxville in a couple of weeks on vacation.

Oh ok, they are cool too either one of those could work

 

[allaboutfish]

you could do 12 of them then do something like 12 harlequin rasboras and a centerpiece fish. a dwarf gourami or a pair of dwarf cichlids.
dwarf gourami

bolivian ram

german blue ram

cockatoo apisto

 

[Rosenweiss]

You can do just about any kind of small/medium schooling fish you want. Some interesting ones are:

Congo tetras
Rummynoses tetras
Bloodfin tetras
Flame tetras
Kerri tetras
Hifin blue danios
Harlequin rasboras
Cardinal tetras
Penguin tetras
Giant danios
Serpae tetras
Gold tetras (a personal favorite)
Leopard danios
Glofish

 

[quisemarboy]

That cockatoo apisto is beautiful. Could i get that at a regular store or would i have to order it?

 

[allaboutfish]

depends it is one of the most common apistos. you might could find it, but you might have to order it. i dont know nashvilles a big city theyre has to be lots of fish stores. i have 2 apistos now that i ordered from HN1 and severum mama. they dont have any now but im sure they can get some more.

 

[quisemarboy]

Oh ok, those fish look amazing and i haven't been many stores other than petco and petsmart

 

[allaboutfish]

they might could special order them for you.

 

[quisemarboy]

I didn't know they could do that. Im try and look for some locally owned fish stores and see what they have

 

[allaboutfish]

good idea