What Aquarium Fish Stay Under And Around 1.5"?

[LisaLQ]

3.6cm/1.42" Firehead tetra Hemigrammus bleheri

wow, i'm thinkin about some of the rasboras to add to the 10 gallon. but i think 0.08" is a little small for the mini rasbora.

I dont know about the others, but rummynoses (listed as firehead tetras) get to 2.5".

 

[020292]

I am sure there are more but you can read their little descriptions that they have on the tanks at the stores or my stores do. Well good luck and let us know what you get!

 

[eschaton]

A lot of the fish people are quoting on here as 1.5 inches or less aren't, such as Zebra Danios, or Neons.

If I were going to do a mixed tank for a 10 gallon, I would do:

3 Endlers - One Male + Two Female
6 Pygmy Rasbora (seen them at LFS...wonderful creatures)
6 Ember Tetras (also saw at LFS, but didn't have enough for good shoal)
6 Pygmy Corys (top out at an inch)

That pretty much fills up the water column (you have top-dwellers, mid-level, and bottom) and comes out to close to 20 inches of fish (and 21 fish!) in 10 gallons of space...two inches per gallon is doable if you're experienced and you plant the tank.

Personally, I like the idea so much I might do it myself. It's about the smallest complete community I could imagine.

 

[Liam]

The one in my avatar is Dario Dario, beautiful little fish, nice slow moving a bit like a dwarf cichlid, great for small tanks. Full little body but shorter than a neon tetra. Only a bit of a fussy feeder, rarely eats flake, frozen and live foods they take happily, I only have a few males as no females in the Lfs.

 

[KeeperOfFishyPeace]

A lot of the fish people are quoting on here as 1.5 inches or less aren't, such as Zebra Danios, or Neons.

If I were going to do a mixed tank for a 10 gallon, I would do:

3 Endlers - One Male + Two Female
6 Pygmy Rasbora (seen them at LFS...wonderful creatures)
6 Ember Tetras (also saw at LFS, but didn't have enough for good shoal)
6 Pygmy Corys (top out at an inch)

That pretty much fills up the water column (you have top-dwellers, mid-level, and bottom) and comes out to close to 20 inches of fish (and 21 fish!) in 10 gallons of space...two inches per gallon is doable if you're experienced and you plant the tank.

Personally, I like the idea so much I might do it myself. It's about the smallest complete community I could imagine.

The whole 2 inches per gallon thing is wrong. It is one inch to every gallon and I am sorry, but to me that is too many fish in a 10 gallon and i am an experienced fish keeper. Let me know what you think.

A reason for setting up this 10 gallon is to move all the fish in my 5 gallon into it. I believe that the 1 inch per gallon rule is for lazy fish keepers, as mentioned before. I have 11 inches of fish in my 5 gallon hex. The tanks been set-up for almost 9 months with not one death or ammonia/nitrite spike, and my pH is stable. I do weekly water changes of 20-25% so that's my secret to alot of stocking. When I'm ready to transport the fishes from the 5 gallon I'm going to return the cory (maybe the oto) for 2-3 pygmy cories. That means I'll have:

2-3 pygmy cories
3 neon tetras (they're small)
2 guppies
1 endlers

That's 10-11". I am thinking of adding 2 more endlers, and 3-4 of a certain species of rasboras. That gives me about 16" of fish. I'll leave it at 16" because I just know I'll find a shoal of nice small fish at my LFS (Dragon Aquarium or Big Al's,they're less than 100m from each other )that I'll just HAVE to get. Thanks for all your input guys, I would have never thought of all of these myself. Partly because I am a little concentrated on my saltwater tank now. Will keep you updated.......but first I have to cycle the tank ( i hate this part , but it is necessary )

EDIT: spelling

 

[Annastasia]

Heterandria formosa stays small, and it's a very peaceful fish. There are other rarer Livebearers that stay fairly small too, if you're into those.

 

[summat fishy]

glow light tetras, however you will need plenty of plants to see them!

 

[Betta5]

Pygmy rasbora
jelly bean tetra

 

[KeeperOfFishyPeace]

I agree with Loko17. It went from one thing to another....does anybody have any new species under 1.5" that have not been posted before?

 

[KeeperOfFishyPeace]

Got 3 glowlight danios!!! They're so nice with their yellow bodies and orange stripe!!!

 

[Loko17]

haha, good job trying to get this thread back on track keeperoffishypeace. Though it may be too late! haha.

 

[Annastasia]

I have split off the other posts, so this thread will be back on track. Those wishing to participate in the other thread can click here.

 

[Jeewhizz]

I too am interested in small fish. I need to stock my 12" Nano cube and was thinking:

2 otos
small shoal of tetras

Would be interested in the type of tetras I can have. I'd love to get cardinals, but with such a small tank, and them being quite sensitive to water fluctuations, I don't think that's wise....

Anyone else?

 

[Betta5]

What about Glofish?

 

[three-fingers]

Glofish are just genetically modified zebra danios so they get to 2" and are very active.