Ideas please you helpful people.

[Aqua Andy]

Hi,

I have not been successful keeping Flame Tetra. I purchased a group of six a month ago and now I only have one left.

My water chemistry is regularly tested and has always been good and I added the fish after completing a fishless cycle. My tank temperature is approximately 25c.

I'm now need to restock the upper area of my tank and I'm after ideas.

I don't really fancy trying Tetra again as I can't work out what went wrong. Also I found they inhabited the lower areas of the tank.

I'd like some active, peaceful, colourful fish.

Whether to go for a group of fish again or maybe a pair?

What would you do?

Please see my signature for my tank details.

Thanks for reading my post,


Andy

 

[WILDER]

It's not a big tank at all so limited, maybe no more than 5 harlequins, they are quite active fish.

 

[Durbkat]

I would say that when you put those six tetras in thier you extremly over stocked your tank and they died from bad water quality so if I were you I would not get any more fish because it might just happen again.

 

[Aqua Andy]

I would say that when you put those six tetras in their you extremely over stocked your tank and they died from bad water quality so if I were you I would not get any more fish because it might just happen again.

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My water quality is tested daily and is perfect.
I have an external filter with a tank capacity of up to almost 50 gallons.
The Cory's and Oto's (which are meant to be sensitive to poor water conditions) are thriving.

 

[Aqua Andy]

What about a Dwarf Gourami or a Betta?

 

[Durbkat]

Maybe a dwark gourmai but watch out for aggresion towards other fish, betta no because you have a tetra in thier and they will eat the fins on the betta and the betta might pick on the other fish you have if you got rid of the tetra.

 

[laurasmithuk]

out of personal experience i have found that tetras do not get on to well with gouramis. my tetras nipped all the time

 

[Aqua Andy]

I think I'm going to re-home the little guy as I don't wont to buy any more and it's unfair to keep him on his own.

 

[Durbkat]

If tank is big enough their will be little to no aggression towards tetras and gourmais because in my friends 29g he had two long finned black tetras and 2 blue gouramis and a common pleco but the gouramis died after I put some black mollies in their. Then the mollies died a short time later now he only has the tetras and pleco.

 

[houndour]

I think I'm going to re-home the little guy as I don't wont to buy any more and it's unfair to keep him on his own.

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I think thats a good idea.

I would be tempted to get a male betta and a couple more corys.

Or maybe 3 male guppies.

 

[Durbkat]

Hey I already said you can't put a male betta in with these fish because their is a 95% chance he will attack these fish.

 

[laurasmithuk]

corys can be kept with bettas no probs.

 

[Durbkat]

Thats not what I heard.

 

[houndour]

I was assuming that the tetra was rehomed. And loads of people have corys with bettas. I just made the wrong assumption about the otos.

 

[Aqua Andy]

corys can be kept with bettas no probs.

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And Oto's?