Any Suggestions For Filling Out My Stocking?

[trianglekitty]

I think I've changed my mind a little about my stocking list. The following is what I know is going in my 20 gallon...

1 dwarf gourami
6 male guppies
6 panda cory cats
6 rasabora helgi (I can't find any info about these online, but they are tiny- less than an 1 inch. Lovely fish)

I need one more schooling type fish. I was going with rummy nose tetras, but they seem more delicate than others. I may go with harlequin rasaboras, but the helgi do have the same black triangle, so it feels like more of the same.

So any suggestions for a schooling community fish that would mix well and maybe have markings that aren't all silver or black?

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Any chance your "helgi" are Hengels Rasbora? http/www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Trigonostigma&species=hengeli&id=994

If so, how do you feel about increasing their group to 12-15?

 

[Newbie_87]

Ember tetras??

 

[trianglekitty]

Any chance your "helgi" are Hengels Rasbora? http/www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Trigonostigma&species=hengeli&id=994

If so, how do you feel about increasing their group to 12-15?

Yep, that's them...they were labeled helgi at the store. I did actually think about it even before, because they are such pretty little fish...if I can't find something else I really like, I probably will do that.

 

[trianglekitty]

Replying to myself- I will, in any case, bump up to eight, as I'm now reading they need at least that many and two more wouldn't really affect the bioload much considering their size.

 

[trianglekitty]

Ember tetras??

I've been researching these, and I do like them quite a bit. They would be a nice contrast, I think.

Considering the size of the rasaboras, and the fact that the embers are one of the smaller tetras, could I do 10-12 of the rasaboras and six of the embers? Or is that really pushing it? I'm learning that stocking isn't as cut and dry as I thought, but I don't want to be "greedy" and create an unhealthy environment.

If I can't do that, I think I'll just get a nice big group of the rasaboras. They drew my eye instantly in the aquarium store- first fish I've seen that had a very big wow factor for me.

 

[OldMan47]

That combination should work fine in a 20 gallon. Are you considering anything else like cories for the bottom?