What fish? advice/suggestions!?

Hello everyone!


Pretty new-be Question, but I still need some advice.
I can call myself more advanced in success to keep plants, but
I'm not quite well in knowledge on some fisies.


so..



I'm up to change my live stock in tank.





I would like to see one pair of some show-off fish and bunch of schooling fishes


Colisia and Gourami will be re-homed and 2 rasbora Kubotai too.
My pygmy corries and amano shrimps are invisible in this setup so I don't count them


I came up for show off fish -
1. just a pair of some nice Rams - really no concerns about keeping them as I can meet their water requirements
2. pair of some nice Angels. concerns - never kept an Angels. No issue with meeting water requirements
but I'm not sure if they will have enough space (as I know there is no small Angel fish, only when they are young, right?)
and if my current will not be too strong for them. I have a very nice flow, not too strong but good enough


Schooling fish
- my thoughts are to keep it classic in this choice - I guess neons would look nice. the smaller ones of the species (I'm bad on proper names.lol). probably about 15 of them


any suggestions or opinions would be much appreciated

I've just seen these recently but the Bluefin Notho Killifish are beautifully coloured in my opinion

Hi Lauris ,
The Angel fish would be 2 big. As for a shoal check out threadfin rainbow fish. Cracking little fish.

Eric

WHAT A FECKING TANK HOLLY SHRIP THAT IS AMAZING, thats award winning stuff

that's brilliant, im saving that one

my wife just said your taking the piss 'that's not real

love it

Im gonnna throw the ember tetra into the suggestion for a shoal,they are very nice fish,small but impressive and would fit nicely into that tank whilst bringing a nice colour contrast with the plants. The Rams are nice but as John suggests the european bred rams are stronger albeit still no guarantee of lasting.Everyone has mixed experience of this fish but its one that has weakened in recebt years with mass production. Id also suggest if you have a decent current to consider a bamboo shrimp which are filter feeders.Something different as you say.The best thing about this change is its completely up to you how you shape it.
Gavin

I am a bit of a fan of Bamboo shrimp...

hammie wrote:

I am a bit of a fan of Bamboo shrimp...

+1
Beautiful, fascinating, serene creatures.

JohnH wrote:

jeff wrote:

my wife just said your taking the piss 'that's not real

love it

To Jeff and Mrs Jeff - it is real - here's the account of how it came into being:

www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php?optio...=135014&limitstart=0

John

Mrs jeff sez that thank-you she is a believer now lol

jeff wrote:

JohnH wrote:

jeff wrote:

my wife just said your taking the piss 'that's not real

love it

To Jeff and Mrs Jeff - it is real - here's the account of how it came into being:

www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php?optio...=135014&limitstart=0

John

Mrs jeff sez that thank-you she is a believer now lol

lol! I'm off my chair!
I'll take it as a compliment. Thanks. to both of you

Dihanio wrote:

I've just seen these recently but the Bluefin Notho Killifish are beautifully coloured in my opinion

fish looks nice, but my bet would be they are too speckled

Eric wrote:

Hi Lauris ,
The Angel fish would be 2 big. As for a shoal check out threadfin rainbow fish. Cracking little fish.

Eric

yep I thought so. either to stay away or keep juveniles until they grow and bring them back to LFS (I guess not an option this time)
threadfin rainbow fish - looks cool. need to read about. also I guess I'm limited to what the Searhorse will have as well. might be an good option.

JohnH wrote:

If you do choose Rams, try to find the (much) nicer European-bred ones - those from the Far East are truly inferior.
If you can find them the 'true' Honey Gouramis are - to my eyes - much nicer fish than the 'orange' cultivars.

John

Do they have a stamps like made in germany or so? lol. I guess this also will be limited to availability. but now I do see why sometimes I see a brilliant colors on them and sometimes they just are pale (if I got this right)

jeff wrote:

WHAT A FECKING TANK HOLLY SHRIP

LOL

jeff wrote:

my wife just said your taking the piss 'that's not real

LOL x 10

Fishowner wrote:

Im gonnna throw the ember tetra into the suggestion for a shoal,they are very nice fish,small but impressive and would fit nicely into that tank whilst bringing a nice colour contrast with the plants.

Might be one of the options. looks good and as said, will be in great contrast with the green

hammie wrote:

I am a bit of a fan of Bamboo shrimp...

not me. not a great fan of bamboo. have a lots of Amanos. thanks


Thank you all for your input

If that was my tank, well it would never be as nice first of all!

I would add a shoal of Paracheirodon simulans, green neon tetra. The lighting you are using on your tank looks similar to what I am using on one of my tanks which has a pink reflection off it. I have cardinals in the tank and everyone who comes and sees the cardinals always asks how come they are that colourful and there ones are dull compared. I think the green neon would look even better, they are harder to come by as I read they are all wild caught. There was a guy selling them for 1.70 each in nasa and he had 100, they were wild caught.

As for your show fish I would go for a pair of apisto, maybe with red in them. I like apistos kept in pairs as the male will always flare at the female. Maybe pick up a nice pair of macmasteri.

Thats just what I would do but a lot of the other suggestions are good also.

swai wrote:

If that was my tank, well it would never be as nice first of all!
.

another lol. nothing is impossible thanks

Green tetra I'm sure is nice but it will dismiss on the plant background
As I have Rasbora Kubotai and it is not easy to spot them if they are not swimming in
particular (plain) area. As I have a plan to get those weed up to the top, green tetra may
just varnish in my scape later on
I like apistos but I had a very bad experience with them before. twice.
once got just a male - bully, took him back to seahorse. and other time a pair - and male
nipped out eyes on rasboras and rummy nose tetras so I took the pair back to Artane aquatics.

your right about the green neons, i just went onto youtube to have a quick look. they do get lost in the tank but they school like crazy!

As fishowner said above, ember tetras would look great.

I've never had any aggression with the apistos i've kept, maybe you were unlucky! Borelli seem to be the most timid out of all the opposites i've kept.

and my wife demands neons (just a classic ones) unless I can convince her with something more impressive

p.s. the pink'ish light is Sylvania Grolux T5 24w tube

I keep neons, ember tetras and apistos in my 90 litres tank.
The ember look like nothing in the lfs but after settling in they shine and bring the tank to life by their activity.

Edit : i have silver tip tetras not ember tetras

thanks to all!
choice has been made today. Wife approved ember tetras.
so I ended up with 16 ember tetras and a lovely pair of Rams

Great choice Lauris...they wont let you down and once they colour up you will be delighted you picked them...cant wait for the pics too!!
Gavin

www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php?optio...60&Itemid=200#179267

oh. now I need some expert advice.
they were sold as a pair, but now I'm having some doubts

they look the same to me in this pic:


but if I'm looking at the fins - they are exact same on both (or probably it's just me)


only two things I noticed are bit different (but thats again might be just me)

1. The one on left is more pale in color
2. the one on left has more like the black covered with blue dots

can someone help me to sex them, as I really want to keep a pair

I wouldo say it's a pair. I'm no expert though. The body on the female (left) is shorter and the black spot has blue speckles which indicates a female.

Also the dorsal fin on the male looks longer then the female. The ventral fin is also longer too.

Lauris wrote:

oh. now I need some expert advice.
they were sold as a pair, but now I'm having some doubts

they look the same to me in this pic:

but if I'm looking at the fins - they are exact same on both (or probably it's just me)


only two things I noticed are bit different (but thats again might be just me)

1. The one on left is more pale in color
2. the one on left has more like the black covered with blue dots

can someone help me to sex them, as I really want to keep a pair

they both look very young and havent got their true colour yet

but the fact that the both have black lines on the pelvic fins indicate the are both female

They are young still and of course will take time to colour up after being newly introduced also....is there any presence of a pinkish underbelly on either of them?females tend to have a pink shade to their belly which is a decent indicator of sexing them...the finnage looks similar in both of them so i suspect you may not have a pair but its hard to tell from a picture. Either way they look nice and healthy,give them good quality food for a few weeks to help them along and hopefully they survive and thrive...the standard of rams nowadays can be so hit and miss.But they are such a lovely fish.

Gavin

thank you all. I'll keep this updated.

this is a great link to sex them. I guess I might be lucky and I gave a pair.

www.aquaeden.co.uk/how_to_sex_german_blue_rams.html

what about these pics
female


male

I don't know what you guys are all on about. It's pretty easy to tell them apart...
MALE


FEMALE


Simples...