Colourful Fish

[seanlid123]

hello guys im new here so you will have to bare with me... im new to the fish keeping hobby and have had my first ever aquarium up and running for 2 month now. its a 3 foot planted tank i have 9 cardinal tetra 8 black phantom tetra 6 bronze corydoras 2 cockatoo apistogramma and 2 mollys im looking to add about another 5 or 6 fish but im after something colourful, has anyone got any ideas on a nice small colourful fish ???

 

[Fishy friend2]

Tank volume? Hardness?

 

[MegaZerino]

hello guys im new here so you will have to bare with me... im new to the fish keeping hobby and have had my first ever aquarium up and running for 2 month now. its a 3 foot planted tank i have 9 cardinal tetra 8 black phantom tetra 6 bronze corydoras 2 cockatoo apistogramma and 2 mollys im looking to add about another 5 or 6 fish but im after something colourful, has anyone got any ideas on a nice small colourful fish ???

i am hoping to get some galaxy rasbora and some chilli/mosquito rasbora (they go by 2 names). i think theyre very pretty

 

[garyspence84]

Some dwarf gourami? they dont grow much bigger than 2" or so and are crackin, colourfull we fish

G

 

[Fishy friend2]

Some possibilities are chilli rasboras, boraras merah, boraras maculatus, guppies, endlers, CPDs, c. Pygmaeus, c. Harbrosous
Spence, I don't think DG's are the best choice as due to massive amounts of inbreeding they are very weak fragile, and susceptible to dwarf gourami disease, also I dnt think that they do best with cockatoo cichlids

 

[garyspence84]

Some possibilities are chilli rasboras, boraras merah, boraras maculatus, guppies, endlers, CPDs, c. Pygmaeus, c. Harbrosous

Oh aye... guppies! thats a good shout actually!

G

 

[lloyd]

Might you not look into upping the numbers of fish you have? your fish will appreciated more of there own kind rather than chucking loads of different species into one tank. if you expand on the mollys there are loads of crazy colours you can get. there are also red phantoms that would contrast nice with your black ones. you could look into hatchet fish. they are very intesting shaped but not that colourful. they cling to the surface of the water so they would take any room in your tank. maybe a bright yellow bristelnose plec would be worth thinking about?

 

[seanlid123]

thanks for the quick replys. i was thinking about guppys but dont want them breeding and ending up with a load of them in my tank and lloyd i thought about that before buying the fish and i think i have alright numbers of fish tbh but i think i will take your advice and look for some more colourful mollies but they seem to produce alot of waste comapared to my other fish.

oh and tank volume is 200 litres and hardsness is medium hard, cant remember the numbers

 

[Fishy friend2]

Then 4-5 make guppies should work out well

 

[lloyd]

yeah they are quite messy. i can see where fishy friend is coming from trying to advice tiny species but i would advise against keeping any of the microrasboras mentioned unless you have quite soft water as they are known to die prematurly if not kept in soft acidic conditions. mollys will breed just as happily as guppies though lol. if you make no attempt to save the fry, with your stocking i wouldnt imagine many fry would survive tbh

 

[Fishy friend2]

HVe you thought about thread fin rainbow fish, or maybe even sterbai Cory's

 

[seanlid123]

ok thanks ! mollies or guppies it is then, the 2 mollies i have at the miniute arent very colourful lol they are black.

 

[Fishy friend2]

Honestly just having 2 mollies is fine and you don't need to bump up the numbers IMO

 

[seanlid123]

ill google thread fin rainbow fish mate give me 2 secs, sterbai corys are abit expensive and have already got 6 bronze

think im going to go for the guppys tbh... will the black phantoms not nip at them ??

 

[Fishy friend2]

With 8 of them, they shouldn't but if you want to be safe you could add 2 more