Angel Tank Mates ?

[treefella83]

i have a juwel trigon 190 which houses 3 angel fish and a pair of albino corydoras i am wanting to ad a shoal of fish as the angels are a bit shy.
i have some ideas but im not sure what to ad.
something like bleeding heart tetras not too big not too small.
i have kept large south american cichlids for about 12 years and this is my first community set up .
so any ideas ?

 

[Colin_T]

As you said, bleeding hearts, also black phantom, diamond, emperor & rosy tetras. Ruby, cherry or golden barbs. Perhaps some rainbowfish like Melanotaenia praecox or some of the bigger Pseudomugil signifer varieties.

 

[joshrm115]

Bala sharks if you have the room.

 

[treefella83]

yes i like the look of those rainbows.
i think my local aqutic shop has them in stock .
cheers

 

[Faythee]

I have Jumbo Rasboras and Diamond Tetras with mine. A pair of Rams may be nice too. They have cute personalities.

 

[treefella83]

well i went to a large garden centre today and found that they had an aquatics department which was well stocked with tropical fish and i did the mortal sin of an impulse buy.
6 columbian redfin tetras for £10 so i asked for 7.
they were bagged up and handed to me and that was that untill i got home .
i floated the bag in the quarantine tank to see that i had 13 fish and not the 7 i paid for well i got a bagain but didnt want a shoal that big because of the tank space required.
i was going to add some more corydoras at a later date but i will just stick with the columbian tetras as the shoal of 13 is impressive to see.
the curse of the impulse buy.

 

[stang1]

Keep an eye on your new additions as they are generally renowned for being fin nippers. They may not be too bad as they are in a big group but if fins start getting nipped, the chances are it will be the Tetras.

 

[thomasp9021]

id still add the cories as they ae a shoaling fish just like your tetras

 

[MHunt]

Yeah, columbians can be fin nippers, but in a group of 13 they'll probably be too interested in squabbling between themselves to annoy your angels too much. That's a great deal, which garden centre is it, i wouldn't mind taking advantage of their genorousity!

 

[treefella83]

the garden centre is peter barratts in stockton.
its a lovely place to visit very clean tanks and a good choice of fish and oddballs.
they have a nice selection of south american cichlid too they had a couple of port acaras that would have been mine if i had another tank. if only

 

[always4lora]

i've got columbian tetra's in with my angels and they seem fine , only got 3 as i never see them round where i live, had one for a couple months by itself (fully grown) and it was fine got 2 little one the other week theyre also fine , abit skittish compared to the bigger one , i'm going to get more if i see them i think , not unless i see the praecox rainbows in which case illget them and get rid of my columbian tetra's

 

[treefella83]

the praecox rainbows were my fisrt choice but they only had the thread fin rainbows a very nice fish but not my cup of tea.
its good to hear that your columbian tetras are fine with your angels as there are mixed thoughts but there is a pecking order in my shoal with the larger 3 swimming underneath the smaller ones.