Yellow Fish - Your Recommendations?

[csjasona]

Hi all - a happy Easter to you all, firstly

I'm wanting very bold colour in my community tank (180l Vision180). I'm thinking bright yellow. Any suggestions?

Living in London, the water is pretty hard, but I have a electronically-controlled PH system that keeps the Ph at/around 6.8.

The tank has a sand substrate and is heavily (live) planted, especially at the rear. There are two pieces of bogwood and a holed-rock that provide hiding spaces.

Other existing species in the tank (in very small numbers):

clown loaches
platies
guppies
dwarf gouramis
rumy-nose tetras
danios (spwaning like it's Christmas and providing enough babies to keep my lfs bill down!)

 

[reddannyh]

Golden gouramis are a nice yellow, but if you've already got some you may not want more. Other than that I'm having trouble thinking of another yellow community freshwater fish lol. I believe some types of angel contain yellows but I wouldn't class angels as community personally. Not much help sorry

 

[csjasona]

Golden gouramis are a nice yellow, but if you've already got some you may not want more. Other than that I'm having trouble thinking of another yellow community freshwater fish lol. I believe some types of angel contain yellows but I wouldn't class angels as community personally. Not much help sorry

I shall take a llok at the golden gouramis. I have 2 dwarf g's already and I like them. The male is orange and the feamle is grey (of course!) but they are the most peaceful and graceful fish I've ever seen. They are totaaly serene. Apart from when they are spawning and then the male chases the female all the time!

 

[Bloo]

If you had the space (which you don't because of the clown loaches), you could have gone for some Boesmani Rainbow fish. That's quite a variety of fish for a 3ft tank (all be it 47.5 US gallons). I wouldn't add any other kind of fish - but instead build on what you have.

 

[Arfie]

I have a yellow(ish) themed tank, with 2 yellowey/orange angels, 3 golden barbs and 1 golden gourami and will be adding a pair of albino bristlenose plecs soon. All these are tough enough to cope with the angels when they are breeding.

I may add some Lemon Tetra and 3 or 4 albino corys at some point too.

You could certainly have the lemon tetra, and probably be OK with golden barbs, though guppy fry may not fare well. I'd probably avoid adding another type of gourami as has been mentioned.

Arfie

 

[BigC]

Golden Barbs
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[csjasona]

I have a yellow(ish) themed tank, with 2 yellowey/orange angels, 3 golden barbs and 1 golden gourami and will be adding a pair of albino bristlenose plecs soon. All these are tough enough to cope with the angels when they are breeding.

I may add some Lemon Tetra and 3 or 4 albino corys at some point too.

You could certainly have the lemon tetra, and probably be OK with golden barbs, though guppy fry may not fare well. I'd probably avoid adding another type of gourami as has been mentioned.

Arfie

Very nice! I might even place those in the smaller tank (60l biorb). Would they be OK with mosquito rasboras or even lampeyes?