Rummy Nose Help

[Gourami123]

hi i am thinking about getting a school of rummy noses but my tank came with 2 large angel fish and rummy nose heads are the same colour as the flake food can these go together

 

[Mikaila31]

They should be fine. I don't have much experience with angels, but I brought home 2 largish ones that are about 4" long including tail. I don't expect any issues with rummy tetras, those are fairly large. Mine at least are too big to fit in angels mouths. There are half a dozen ember tetras in the tank too and so far they are ignoring them. I've only had the angels for 4 days though.

 

[waterdrop]

Rummys are among the larger tetras when they get more mature. But when younger, their shoal should protect them. The way a shoal works is that as the 6 or more rummys move together, the tiny brain of the angelfish interprets the darker colors of the rummys as being a single, moving, large fish or other thing and it leave "it" alone.

Other things I can think of are that if the angels are young, they will get used to the rummys being in the tank (just like they do for neons, which are even smaller) and not eat them, even though they, the angels, have grown larger. On the other hand, one negative posibility, a minor consideration, is that angels, like many other cichlids, are among those fish whose behavior varies some by individual fish.

Bottom line, I'd think rummys would be fine with angels as long as the minimum shoal size (at least) is maintained.

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[fishyfeet]

ive got angels with rummys too, no probs at all, di