Dither Fish For My 100 Gal?

[snowflake311]

I'm thinking I should get some Dither fish for my uarus in the 100 gal. There were out swimming around after eatting. most of the time they just chill together in the corner. these are shy fish to start so I think Dithers would be a good idea. I also would like the look of a school in the tank. It needs to be a fast large fish because me acara likes to eat little fish.

I'm trying to stick to south american fish. So any ideas?

I went to a FISH Store and saw another Uaru a bit smaller then mine by him self. I was so close to getting him but Walked away I don't have room.

 

[karin]

Snowflake, although not south american, I love my congo tetras. Big and fast.

 

[Wills]

How about some headstanders? Spotted ones might not be tough enough but marbled might work as would the smaller Annostomus?

Would Silver dollars work? Or you could try and get some of the smaller ones but you would need to learn names and probs get special orders for them.

Columbian tetras are always good as dithers for big cichlids as well as they get pretty big as adults

Wills

 

[snowflake311]

thanks guys. I was looking at some Congo tetras at Jans.

Columbian tetras are the ones I was looking for I forgot what they were called I saw them at a shope once and likes them a lot. But would they be fast enough? My fat blue acara is the hunter. My parrot might think about eating smaller fish I'm not worried about the Uaur. I was thinking silver dollars but I'm afraid they will get too big and skitish.

 

[Wills]

Columbians are more tough and big than fast, if you want fast tetras the fastest are bleeding hearts

 

[minxfishy]

Bleeding heart tetras are very fast and beautiful in a large group, used to have some many years ago and should easily evade the acara, because of their shape, I doubt very much he would be able to eat them.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Although not South American, how about a 5+ group of playful and beautiful Giant Danios?

I recently bought some Yellowtail Congo Tetras, as they are more boisterous than the more common Congo Tetra (Phenacogrammus (Micralestes) interruptus), despite not getting quite so big. As my "leftfield oddball" semi-predatory stocking needs bolder fish, I avoided the interruptus, which have a timid reputation despite their size. My Yellowtails are currently only ~5cm (should grow another 2cm), but they are already showing their confident nature, refusing to be evicted from behind my bogwood stack by my dominant ~9cm Opsarius!

I was very tempted to add a single Striped Headstander to my setup, as they look so graceful yet unusual (pointing down, with their strange upturned mouth), but the staff at Aquajardin strongly believe that a single 20cm adult (only ~9cm now) could turn into an aggressive cichlid-like fish when it gets older. For now, I have to take their word for it (so they are crossed off my list), but so far I've only read about Headstanders getting grumpy with their own kind as they get older. However, for your setup with bigger adult fish, this may be ideal!

Perhaps Buenos Aires Tetra are another option?

 

[Wills]

I was very tempted to add a single Striped Headstander to my setup, as they look so graceful yet unusual (pointing down, with their strange upturned mouth), but the staff at Aquajardin strongly believe that a single 20cm adult (only ~9cm now) could turn into an aggressive cichlid-like fish when it gets older. For now, I have to take their word for it (so they are crossed off my list), but so far I've only read about Headstanders getting grumpy with their own kind as they get older. However, for your setup with bigger adult fish, this may be ideal!

I have a group of 8 Annostomus Ternetzi in my tank at the moment, 3 adult 5 juvies. This is the species you want as they are much much calmer than the more common and larger growing Annostomus Annostomus. I kept mine initially as a trio but since I increased their numbes they are awesome always out always swimming in a line great addition to the tank. You can tell the difference from the two fish in a few ways, A.Annostomus has a red tail and A.Ternetzi does not, the middle bar goes stright at the caudial pinical where as on A.Ternetzi it makes a crescent shape at the end. Also in adult A.Ternetzi they get lipstick on their mouths ie red marking on their top lip - they do eat some plants but not an issue. Never had an issue with mine and Ive had my adults nearly a year now.

The other to consider is Marbled, but these need to be kept in groups in this size of tank. They become like tiger barbs in a group so caught up in the hierachy they ignore the other fish. And then you have the most peaceful one which is the spotted headstander again should be kept in sixes or so and look great.

After cichlids they are definitely my favorite type of fish. They are absolutely hysterical to watch when the males flare out because they cant actually bite each other because of their mouths - Ive also seen mine clean my plecs and the plecs seem to enjoy it a bit like a marine cleaner wrasse haha. They also eat green algae off my glass and plants which is always a good thing

Wills

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I was attracted to the Striped initially because of its lack of number requirement, as my Rio 240 is going to end up with quite a few fish in it

5 Pearl Danios; 2 Opsarius pulchellus; 5 Yellowtail Congo Tetra... Already in
3 Panda Garra, 3 Denisons Barb... On day4 of post-buying quarantine

Planned "Definites"
5/6 Orange-ringed Barb (rhomboocellatus)
6 Humphead Glassfish
1 African Bushfish
[the remaining 5 to make a group of 10] Yellowtails
2 Steatocranus "x"

Strongly considering (in order of preference)
1-3 Indian Red Tail Squirrel Loach <---------------------------------------Currently trying to research if these will play nicely with my Panda Garras, appears to be more about Garras' personailty as Squirrel found with Hillstream Loaches
2 Pelviochromis (did they really mean Nanochromis?) nudiceps <---Waiting to see what they actually are when Congo shipment arrives, if Nanochromis I'm very tempted IF MIXING TWO SEPERATE PAIRS OF STEATOCRANUS IS NO-GO
2 Nanochromis transvetius <------------------------------------------------Rare and gorgeous colours, but stay a bit too small for comfort when Bushfish gets to ~13cm, plus pairs often have "love/hate" relationship
1/2 African Filter Shrimp <----------------------------------------------------Not stocked by LFS, a little concerned how things will go during shell molting with the other tankmates around
1/2 African Butterfly Fish <---------------------------------------------------Concerned about having to lower water levels so they can jump and also not be floating out of sight behind the black upper tank border!

 

[roadmaster]

Columbians are more tough and big than fast, if you want fast tetras the fastest are bleeding hearts

Recently moved and had to tear down my tanks. Kept a group of eleven columbian tetras with an electric Blue dempsey and they easily avoided him.
After trying to catch the columbians from the 80 gal, I would feel confident that they could easily elude most fish. Even after draining nearly two thirds of the water from the tank, they proved to be nearly as fast as danios,and it took two large nets and considerable expletives before I was able to capture the lot.
I also have a group of three year old bleeding heart tetras. don't think they grow large enough to avoid becoming snacks for adult Acara.
The columbians grow considerbly larger.

 

[vanderdraay]

how many colombian tetras could i have in a 100g tank with 2 blue acara 2 rainbow cichlids 4 thorichthys ellioti and 2 indian leafish (very placid) as im looking to put some schoaling fish in and love these fish sorry if im taking the link

cheers paul

 

[snowflake311]

The head stander look like fun and get to be a good size. The Columbians tetras I'm leaning toward. The red eye tetras don't stand a chance with the blue acara or any fish. They are so easy to catch they always stay at the surface when spooked making for easy targets. I need to give these guys away I wish could trade them in. Or just let them become feeder fish but that's mean they are almost 1 year old.

The headstanders might be a good pick I will have to ask around and see if I can find some.

 

[Glenbo1981]

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[snowflake311]

Well I did an experiment. I took the 4 red eye teras and 3 red tail rasorba then put them in the 100 gal. The rasorba are 3 years old and I thought they might like to live in the 100 gal.

At first all the cichlids came over to check then out. That only lasted a few min. I thought one would be taken for sure. Now all is normal again and the small schools are swimming around just fine.

 

[england]

Dithers i have are colombian tetra's<beautiful fish and as said very quick on there fins>>>ticto barbs stunning little fella's and had before bueno aries tetra another good dither