Shoal Poll

goldfishattack · Oct 28, 2003

black neon tetra
neon tetra
black widow tetra
cherry barbs
tiger barbs
Pictus Catfish

aernympha · Oct 28, 2003

gouramis, cherry barbs and guppies don't shoal!! and neons i think do it best lol

freshmike · Oct 28, 2003

My cardinals were awesome!!! Always in a tight bunch!!!!

smb · Oct 28, 2003

Red Belly Piranhas look really cool when they are shoaling but I never see them on any polls. :no:

freshmike · Oct 28, 2003

Probably no one even thinks of them as being schooling fish smb!!! LOL!
I know I didn't until you told me they were!!! :thumbs:

AquaNut · Oct 28, 2003

Oh smb.. you're in my head.

I was gonna say my best shoalers are silver dollars, the friendlier cousin of the piranhas. :lol:

goldfishattack · Oct 28, 2003

I had 6 piranhas before, they are the most stressful fish I've ever owned, now I need clean, happy, small fish. Like this fellow here. :fish:

smb · Oct 28, 2003

goldfishattack said:
I had 6 piranhas before, they are the most stressful fish I've ever owned, now I need clean, happy, small fish. Like this fellow here.

Why were they stressful to you?

Probably no one even thinks of them as being schooling fish smb!!! LOL!
I know I didn't until you told me they were!!!

Really? I thought everyone knew. Well, now you know!

Oh smb.. you're in my head.

juanveldez · Oct 28, 2003

I think that any of those fish will shoal well if there is a 5 inch GT and a 7 inch JD sitting in wait underneath them!!!! :lol:

cassandra · Oct 28, 2003

i think neons are

The_Budmaster · Oct 29, 2003

rummy nosed tetras are the best!

millym · Oct 29, 2003

tigers/green tigers always seem to like to hang in a gang specially on their am/pm tank patrol

my neons only seem to shoal when im up to my ears fiddling in their home!!!

Death Penguin · Oct 29, 2003

I'm totally with you on that one Millym. Tiger Barbs are big shoaling fish and the green ones are an awesome green colour.

In my limited experience of keeping fish i found that the neons i kept were quite boring fish and never really stuck together much.

FanOFish · Oct 29, 2003

Whats the difference between a shoal of fish and a school of fish?

Sinuhe · Oct 29, 2003

How I understand it is that "schooling" means swimming together in a syncronized manner, like there was one brain moving a group of fish :lol:

. "Shoaling" means the fish swim together, but not necessarily in a tight group like schooling fish, they just "hang out together". Like Guppies can shoal, but not school.