How Many?

[stella!]

Hi again every 1!
Iwas wondering how many cardinals you think i could have in a rio 240 with 4 angels 1 harliquin and 3 cherry barbs? tnx

 

[Sibelius]

15? or is that a bit conservative? In a tank that size you'd need a largish shoal to stand out. I also notice you have no bottom dwellers or clean-up crew.

 

[stella!]

Not at the minute i have 2 bristlenose in my 20 gal which will be going in shortly. Howver i was told by my lfs that i would be able to have more would you recomend any other small fish that would stand out? tnx

 

[ghent_3rd]

i am in a very similar situation to you stella. looking for a cool tetra to add into my Rio 180, similar stocking to yours except i only have 2 angels.

 

[NEONCORY]

I think you should get some harliquin and some cherry barbs to bring the number up to 6 each or so. So they can be happier as I believe they do better with their own group. And after that if there are room for another fish, you can get Cardinals, Neons, Glowlight or whatever you would like.

 

[ghent_3rd]

i have been considering adding to my neons as currently i only have 1 but everywhere i go on the net it says that he angels i have will see the neons as a little snack!!!

my angels are only fairly small compared to the ones often seen, don't know about yours stella, so i may still add if i can't decided on anything else.

 

[chr15_8]

ive got/growing a planted tank at the moment and have 25 neon tetra's i have just bought another 20 to add to the tank (rena classic (approx 47 x 15 x 9 lxhxw) width is only 9 inches because of the background

i still think i will need to get another 20 possibly another 40 for the full effect (tank is 43 gallons but only 30 gallons of water where the fish are in

 

[stella!]

Cool thanks every 1 for your input