Suggested Fish That Won't Get Eaten

[mr williams]

for the top of my tank. The suspected eaters are my 5 in oscar or my 5in birchir. The only other inhabitants are my mbu puffer and a pleco and firemouth. It's a 5 by 2 by 2 tank.
Silver dollars come to mind but anything more colourful???

ta.

 

[mr williams]

ok cheers guys. Lots to think about here

 

[jayjay]

It was a little over an hour..... Impatient

Any way, oscars often don't like any open water fish but you try, rainbow fish, other cichlids, larger charcins like silver dollars etc.

 

[mr williams]

I was worried the post was going to fall off the page into the ether..... Thanks 4 your help.

 

[CFC]

Any large peacefull schooling fish will do, larger rainbows such as boesmani's, the larger barbs, silver sharks and big characins like Chalceus or silver dollars can all work.

 

[mr williams]

Any large peacefull schooling fish will do, larger rainbows such as boesmani's, the larger barbs, silver sharks and big characins like Chalceus or silver dollars can all work.

Thanks CFC I did previously have silver sharks but took them back to lfs due to overstocking. I'm looking for fish that won't get so big. I think i'm leaning to dollars but don't they get to around 20cm.

I know I have a few fish that will get big in my tank but I have recently noticed that its quite a rare occurance to see a fish actually swimming. This was not the idea behind the tank.

 

[smmetz]

I think the point is that a fish needs to be pretty big to survive with the oscar and birchir.