what is the best schooling fish
help me name some
2007-12-23 08:48:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
tetras name them
2007-12-23 08:53:48 · update #1
Tetras (Neons, Cardinals, Phantoms, Black Skirts, White Skirts, Congo, Silvertip, Red Eye, Head and Tail Light, Glowlight, Diamond, Serpae, Lemon, Fire, and more), Rasboras, Danios, Cory Cats, Otos, Rainbowfish, Angelfish (6 inches long), Bala Sharks (about a foot long), Tinfoil Barbs (freakin monsters!), and shoaling fish like Yo-yo Loaches, Kuhli Loaches, Clown Loaches (about a foot long), Dwarf Chain Loaches, and MANY others.
My favorite schooling fish are Silvertip Tetras, though they can be a bit nippy if you don't keep them in a proper school, and my favorite shoalers are Yo-yo Loaches.
Soop Nazi
EDIT: Glass Cats are cool, but they are purely freshwater fish. In brackish water (as with many freshwater Catfish), they soon die of stress related issues.
Confused: could you please email me (nosoop4u@cox.net), I have a question about your reasoning behind smaller schools of different kinds.
EDIT 2: Guppies are not schooling fish...
2007-12-23 09:00:13 · answer #1 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flame Tetra
2007-12-23 09:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by laurlynvos_1773 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorate schooling fish is the Hangeli Rasbora. They continue to school tightly at all times. Tetras are good schoolers, but once they find they are without threat, they will not school so tightly.
If you aren't interested in tetras there are allot of different fish that school, like glass catfish (for brackish water), rainbow fish, and livebarers.
edit: soup nazi is right, glass cats are fresh water, my bad!
Its glass fish that are slightly brackish (and only buy naturals not the dyed ones). Glass fish are also a schooling fish.
2007-12-23 09:40:28 · answer #3 · answered by tinder_blast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly, I like rasbora the best for schooling fish because not a lot of people have them. everyone has tetras and they get boring if everyone has them. like goldfish. everyone used to have them a while ago and now there just boring fish. rasboras are prettier when they get bigger. the ones I have are a shiny coppery color. and when they get bigger they get more pretty. and there only $1.79 a fish at petco. well the obe I go to. Idk about the other ones.
2007-12-23 14:18:49 · answer #4 · answered by stephen G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
soup nazi named some good ones,they only thing I can add is I think it is better to have several smaller schools(5 or more fish) of different fish,rather than 1 or 2 large schools of the same fish.
2007-12-23 09:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
tetras .danios
i love congo tetras they grow a little bigger than normal tetras ( 3,4 inches)and are great nad need a large tanks 30 gallons at least they can be preety expensive too
i paid 15$ for one tetra
2007-12-23 10:13:59 · answer #6 · answered by dAmIAnOO 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tetras are great - cardinals and neons all look pretty impressive in big schools,
harlequin rasboras, danios, cories.. there are bunches of 'em
2007-12-23 08:51:16 · answer #7 · answered by FishStory 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neon tetras are known to school very well.
2007-12-23 09:13:15 · answer #8 · answered by FishRfine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glo-fish make good schooling fish too.
2007-12-23 08:52:56 · answer #9 · answered by alwaysmyself 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tetras are nice.
2007-12-23 08:51:23 · answer #10 · answered by Warren Bennett 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋