Neon Tetras
are
schooling
fish
and
they
should
always
be
kept
in a
group
with
at
least
6
Neons.
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Neon
Tetras.
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changed
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about
the
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Tetras, Danios, White Clouds, Barbs, Rainbowfish, Bala Sharks, Corydoras Catfish, and many other types of schooling fish live best in a group with at
least six fish of their species.
When you look at pages in AquariumFish.net with Schooling Fish for sale, you will see a symbol like this
to indicate that these fish live best in a group with at least six fish of their species.
If you keep just two or three of a Schooling Fish, their behavior will greatly change. They may hide, or attack and nip on other fish. We think that
generally these fish are not happy living in a group with less than six members of their species.
More is Better.
Keeping a group of 12, or more, is even better for schooling fish. Of course, a bigger group may require a bigger aquarium.
The schooling fish do not have to be the same color variety, but they must be the same species. So for example, the group might have six Tiger Barbs and
might consist of three regular Tiger Barbs and three Golden Tiger Barbs, which are all the same species and will school together.
But different species of Corydoras Catfish will not school together, even if they look nearly the same to us. So you need to get six of each species.
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Shown above
is a young
Corydoras
Catfish. Some
Corydoras
Catfish school
together and swim across
the bottom of
the aquarium.
Other species
like this
Corydoras
sterbai usually
do not school,
but they do seem
to enjoy each
other's company.
Two or more of
them will often
swim together,
and several will
often rest
together. This
species probably
does not need to
be kept in a
group of more
than 3, but they
seem to have
more fun in a
bigger group.
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here to
buy Cory
Catfish.
A school of
Serpae Tetras
swims together
near a large
piece of Ceramic
Driftwood.
Serpaes often
form a loose
school but enjoy
exploring on
their own too.
These Serpaes
live in a
55-gallon
aquarium in a
group with
12-Serpae
Tetras. Click
here to buy
Serpae Tetras.
Click here to
buy Ceramic
Driftwood Logs
like the one in
this picture.
Clown Loaches,
like these, seem
to
be very happy,
when they live
in a school with
6 or more Clown
Loaches. Here 5
of them pile on
top of each
other, which is
a very typical
behavior for
Clown Loaches.
It's lots of fun
to watch them
play together.
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Clown Loaches.
We
Changed
our
Mind.
;^}
After
many
years
of
thinking
that the
advice
on
this
page
was
true
and
seemed
to
make
sense,
we
began
to
change
our
mind.
Here's
what
happened.
We
set
up a
nice
29-gallon
aquarium
with
an
Eclipse
Filter,
a
thin
layer
of
gravel,
some
pretty
plastic
plants,
and
lots
of
pieces
of
lava
rock.
Just
like
we
recommend
on
many
pages
in
this
web
site.
We
wanted
to
keep
lots
of
different
species
to
photograph
and
wanted
fish
with
no
nicks
in
their
fins
so
the
photographs
would
really
look
nice.
When we kept 6 to 10 fish of a schooling species, they tended to quarrel and nip on each other. We knew in our bigger aquariums that often
contained hundreds of a schooling species, there wasn't much nipping. But in this 29-gallon aquarium, there was, and there wasn't enough space
in a 29-gallon aquarium to keep hundreds of a species let alone several species!
We
decided
to
to
try
something
new,
keeping
just
one
fish
of
each
species,
even
of
the
schooling
species
that
we'd
always
kept
in
groups
of
at
least
6
and
usually
more
than
10.
We
were
surprised
to
see
that
these
schooling
fish
did
very
well
with
no other
members
of
their
species
in
the
aquarium.
They
didn't
seem
to
be
overly
nervous
or
to
be
searching
for
more
members
of
their
species.
Generally
they
didn't
show
nicks
from
nips
by
other
fish.
Most
nips
are
inflicted
by a
fish
of
the
same
species
during
battles
for
higher
status among the members of that species.
Now
we
have
a
29-gallon
aquarium
with
many
species
instead
of
just
a
few,
and
we
enjoy
watching
the
greater
variety
of
fish
more!
Our new revised guideline is to keep one fish of a species or to keep several but not just a few.
We
learned
this
after
keeping
fish
in
aquariums
for
more
than
45-years!
;^ }
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