Thanks for all of the replies, I was at first thinking of neons but then my lfs said cardinals look better to which I see in he's tanks having the deeper red along bottom half of body, he was explaining that people used to be scared of cardinals because they didnt like our water when shipped over but he makes sure that he only buys tank bred ones which are fine in our water, the reason why i was first unsure of neons as I'd read about neon tetra disease but he said he'd not heard of that in a while. Cardinals are more expensive in he's shop but I dont know if thats the norm but I dont believe he is trying to sell me the more expensive as I get on very well with him. Water in our area is on the harder side. Yes knowing that I have such a big tank I was thinking of building up over time a number of 30+? Other tank mates are 5 bn, 3 clown loaches (now i have a bigger tank I am looking at adding 3 more) 3 golden barbs at which I am also looking at adding more, 5 Redhead eartheaters or tapajos, some plateys which eventually I will be re-homing, 1 rtbs who is fine in my set up, was worried about aggresion but seems to keep to himselfs and spends all he's day gliding over plants looking for algae. Thats it, honestly I've not long come over to the bigger tank so was looking at adding the schoaling fish and bulking up some of the numbers of fish that I already have. I will check out the red eyed tetra aswell.
