Last Tankmates To Be Added - But Which Ones?

[fluffycabbage]

I have a gorgeous male Betta, who is happily living with 12 neon tetras. Its an 80l tank, so has some room I'd like to get something else in there, calm, which will live happily in there. (which is why ive decided against corys, i think the neons will get spooked).
ANy good ideas? I'd love something colourful

PH8, temp 26c.

 

[Josiee]

What about some red cherry shrimp?

 

[fluffycabbage]

not even thought about shrimp tbh!

 

[Josiee]

I just bought a golden apple snail (beautiful!) and two ghost shrimp (a male and a female) as tankmates for my betta in his 5gallon

 

[Flute]

I think you might risk cherry shrimp being made into lunch. Apparently larger shrimp species are safer though. How about a group of khuli loaches? They're so cute

 

[kizno1]

A group of 8 panda or 12 pygmy corys would work

 

[fluffycabbage]

Dont like khuli loaches, so a no to those. Pygmy corys i have thought about, along with sterbai, but at the moment the tank is very calm, and the tetras can be quite skittish and jumpy - i dunno, maybe they'd get used to them

 

[kizno1]

Dont like khuli loaches, so a no to those. Pygmy corys i have thought about, along with sterbai, but at the moment the tank is very calm, and the tetras can be quite skittish and jumpy - i dunno, maybe they'd get used to them

Corys stay near the bottom so wouldnt really bother tetras that much. Pygmy corys look great mine stick in a really tight shoal and swim every where around the tank together.

 

[fluffycabbage]

my tetras tend to stay round the bottom though maybe there arent enough plants for them to feel safe higher up

 

[OldMan47]

I love many of the more common cories in almost any tank setting. I keep skunk cories, any of the 3 different pygmy sized cories or C. trilineatus or even C. paleatus in almost every one of my tanks. They are entertaining in their own right and do not really disturb other fish much0. Their playfulness seems to go unnoticed by nervous fish like rummy nose or neon tetras. I do tend to stick with a single cory species in each tank because they interact better with each other when there is a large group of the same species together.