I would like to find a schooling fish that is really hardy. I dont really like red eye tetras or danios. My neon and cardinals die all the time and am looking for something that will last longer.
Schooling fish suggestions
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I've also experienced a decline in the hardiness of the pet store bought neons and cardinals. I think they are overfarmed! Same thing seems to be happening to a lot of varieties of petstore cories. If you can get some rummy nose tetras, I think you'd like them. Their whole nose area gets bright red and they really school where I found the neons really didn't. Neons kinda just hung out on the sides of the tanks. Although the rummies are considered to be sensitive, I found no problem with acclimating them. I did it slowly since the petstore water is usually around 7.0 ph and my ph is 7.6. I emptied half the bag water out, floated the bag and every 10 minutes added a couple of tablespoons of water until I had doubled the volume of water in the bag. I've had absolutely no issues with them like with the neons/cards.
36 gallon bow with 2 pearl gouramies 2 dwarf gouramies, 5 guppies, a bushy nose pleco, a few mystery snails, a few ghost shrimp, a female krib, and as of now 2 cardinal and 4 neon tetras
How about endlers live bearers? They are great little guys with lots of color. Never a dull moment very active and very tough as far as pH and temperature. Not commonly available at the LFS but readily available at Aquabid.
although they aren't considered "schooling" fish i really like my cherry barbs. Ideally, you could increase your cardinals...but as a second choice the cherry barbs are great and always actively engaged with each other.
Are they hardy? Will they be ok with my current fish? I wont buy cardinals or neons any more all they do is die
I have them with neons, cardinals, honey gourami, cherry shrimp and cories and they don't bother anyone but themselves. If you get them, I would get 1m/2f ratio as the males chase the females a good bit (not doign any damage). I have found them to be hardy, I didnt lose any during qt or since they have been added. The males are super vibrant and they get a little bigger than the cardinals. They also are always in the front of my tank and like to munch on algae (a little, not enough to be considered "cleaners"). I really enjoy them.
