Your favorite schooling or shoaling fish?

Neons, they are small and don't over power the tank so you can have a fair amount of them.

My only problem is that Angels eat them and I'd like to keep some Angels but have gone with Rams.

Rummy nose tetras!!
Nice tight schools, and I love watching them follow each other.

Another for Rummynose tetras! Those are the best schoolers I've seen.

rasbora hengelli

Harlequin Rasboras. I like their colors once they settle in.

I like Ember tetras - I've got a school of 24 in my 55G tank.

+1 for the rasbora hengelis!! These little guys stay in the TIGHTEST school I've ever seen.. before them, I would have said harlequin rasboras, which are still a DAMN tight school.. but there's always one or two loners, it seems, in the harlequin bunch. And with the henglis, they just stay with each other everywhere they go! So far, for me, it is the most textbook example of a schooling fish, ever.

+2 for hengelis. love em.

Rasbora einthovenii
Brilliant rasbora

they are like 1" to 1.5" in size. They school so tighty
they beat the Rummynose. As Overfloater said. These are the funniest fish i had i could video tape them if you want. Matter fact go to your Larges chain stores and try to find the Brilliant Rasboras Then walk back and forth in front of the tank. Mines goes right in front of my output and swim against the current in schools and start doing flips

Can anyone comment on how Columbian Tetras school? I read one description somewhere that said they were one of the best schoolers.

forddna said:

Can anyone comment on how Columbian Tetras school? I read one description somewhere that said they were one of the best schoolers.

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I don't know about the best, but they are definitely good schoolers. Someone on PT had a good picture... try searching "colombian".

I've always been a big fain of rainbowfish in groups. Though don't tend to form one big school, but rather groups of 2 or 3 in my experience. I just bought 4 boesmani rainbows and they're great fish.

rummy nose tetras.
the best schooler i know.

Rummynose, no doubt.

I would say harlquin rasboras are the best scoolers I've had and I love their colors, but then I have not had any other rasboras or rummynose. I also like glowlight tetras and white clouds, they stay together, especially the white clouds, but not so tight. Incidentally, my five gold barbs in my 10g stay together VERY well, I almost never see any apart. My checker barbs in my 20g, do not, for whatever reason. I'm curious, how well do black phantom tetras stay together? I have one in my 20g tank (it was the closest I could get to an angelfish : ) and have thought of getting more, for a bigger tank. My BPT doesn't seem at all lonely--he schools with the other fish his size and is king of the tank--but I love, LOVE his looks and would be interested in getting a school for a different tank.

FWIW, I have noticed that if the school is too large, the fish might not school at tightly.
When I originally set up my 125, I had about 15 harlequin rasboras that used to shoal nicely (still not as tight as the rummy noses), but now through attrition of someone breaking down their tank, I have about 40 in my 125, and they aren't as tight as they were before.

YMMV

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AmoAquafish said:

I'm curious, how well do black phantom tetras stay together? I have one in my 20g tank (it was the closest I could get to an angelfish : ) and have thought of getting more, for a bigger tank. My BPT doesn't seem at all lonely--he schools with the other fish his size and is king of the tank--but I love, LOVE his looks and would be interested in getting a school for a different tank.

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Not sure about schooling, but I just recently researched them, and they seem to be an all-around great fish! Not too expensive, either. You can mix black phantons and red phantoms.

They are all around great fish!

AmoAquafish said:

I'm curious, how well do black phantom tetras stay together? I have one in my 20g tank (it was the closest I could get to an angelfish : ) and have thought of getting more, for a bigger tank. My BPT doesn't seem at all lonely--he schools with the other fish his size and is king of the tank--but I love, LOVE his looks and would be interested in getting a school for a different tank.

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I've got 5 black phantom tetras in with my baby angelfish, and I'll tell you, from experience, the males tend to get segregated from the group. I've got 2 females and three males (didn't know the difference when i got them) and two of the males tend to be pretty solitary, while the one male gets both females and they hang out within three inches of each other all the time. I suppose that if you wanted more schooling, I'd go with a ratio of 2 red finned ones to 1 black finned one. But then you might just end up with a bunch of little groups.