Nice looking tank, a little small for a shoal of tetra but they do look good, I keep my neon shoal in my sunken forest tank (55 gallon) gives them plenty of room to swim. Like the look of the salvinia floating on the surface it is good to have shade for tetras, they do not like bright light.
They look rlly nice m8, congrats
I currently have 6 ember, 14 glow light ,12 neon and 2 red eyed tetra which were fry I later found from a shoal of 17 red eye tetra I gave away. I started out with 5 red eye tetra which I tried breeding in the tank and ended up with 17 adult red eye in just 2 months or so. They were starting to over run my tank. At the time I had this tank set up as my LOTR castle themed tank. I have to use RO water to soften my water and get it just right for the tetras to breed.
Given its just that small size, id keep it neon tetras only. Let them have more of the space.
Only cories suitable for that tank size are the pygmy cory species, but they will use up some midwater space too, so that would infringe on the neons space for swimming.
Now, if you upgrade to a 20 gallon long, move the neons there and could do a nice shoal of cories in that
This tank then could house some microrasboras like chili rasboras, boraras, or my favourite the kubotai rasboras... theyre super small and would do fine in the space. Go for a nano tank!
But definitely in the future i will be upgrading to a bigger tank.
That sounds like an awesome set up you have going on there! and I would definitely like to breed fish in the future! but as of yet im new to keeping tropical fish, so I still have plenty to learn. I have kept Fancy Goldfish in the past so i’m fairly clued up on those guys. But tropical and live plants is all new to me!
I had 3 koi at one time, as they grew I moved them from tank to tank and they ended up in my 55 gallon tank. They all had their own personality. I ended up giving them to a friend that had a pond so they would have a better life. He kept koi and goldfish in his pond.
