With rainbows, you need to have more females than males, regardless of what they tell you at the LFS. They are in the business of selling fish, not properly caring for them or offering expert advice. What can happen with more males than females is the males can quite literally stress the females to death. Males are pretty aggressive when they are in breeding mode.
oh poooooooh! I was so careful to read up on it too-I saw the fact about larger male to female ratio on this site too http
/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/mel-pcox.htm, I will have to have a think-and that makes my brain hurt
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(a little later!)
I think I have a solution, but will wait for Robby to let me know what you think
If I buy 3 more dwarf neons (female!) and reduce the numbers of xray tetra I am going to add to 6 and golden barbs to 10, Aq advisor still reckons I will only be 95% stocked when I add my bn. Does this sound ok, or do I need a larger ratio of females
........a little later again!
or 4 more rainbows and leave the barbs at 6, gives me 90% - which is a healthier safety net?
Also, having just put 8 rainbows in, I was going to leave it a while before adding anything else, but do you think I should at least even the numbers up, by adding another 2 rainbows, or is this going to be too much (I added the last 8 on Tuesday)
..and any suggestions for floaty plants which are indestructible, and ok with a trickle filter and no fancy equipment, or shall I only put one light on, which looks fine?