Shoal Poll

[goldfishattack]

black neon tetra
neon tetra
black widow tetra
cherry barbs
tiger barbs
Pictus Catfish

 

[aernympha]

gouramis, cherry barbs and guppies don't shoal!! and neons i think do it best lol

 

[freshmike]

My cardinals were awesome!!! Always in a tight bunch!!!!

 

[smb]

Red Belly Piranhas look really cool when they are shoaling but I never see them on any polls.

 

[freshmike]

Probably no one even thinks of them as being schooling fish smb!!! LOL!
I know I didn't until you told me they were!!!

 

[AquaNut]

Oh smb.. you're in my head. I was gonna say my best shoalers are silver dollars, the friendlier cousin of the piranhas.

 

[goldfishattack]

I had 6 piranhas before, they are the most stressful fish I've ever owned, now I need clean, happy, small fish. Like this fellow here.

 

[smb]

I had 6 piranhas before, they are the most stressful fish I've ever owned, now I need clean, happy, small fish. Like this fellow here.

Why were they stressful to you?

Probably no one even thinks of them as being schooling fish smb!!! LOL!
I know I didn't until you told me they were!!!

Really? I thought everyone knew. Well, now you know!

Oh smb.. you're in my head.

 

[juanveldez]

I think that any of those fish will shoal well if there is a 5 inch GT and a 7 inch JD sitting in wait underneath them!!!!

 

[cassandra]

i think neons are

 

[The_Budmaster]

rummy nosed tetras are the best!

 

[millym]

tigers/green tigers always seem to like to hang in a gang specially on their am/pm tank patrol my neons only seem to shoal when im up to my ears fiddling in their home!!!

 

[Death Penguin]

I'm totally with you on that one Millym. Tiger Barbs are big shoaling fish and the green ones are an awesome green colour.

In my limited experience of keeping fish i found that the neons i kept were quite boring fish and never really stuck together much.

 

[FanOFish]

Whats the difference between a shoal of fish and a school of fish?

 

[Sinuhe]

How I understand it is that "schooling" means swimming together in a syncronized manner, like there was one brain moving a group of fish . "Shoaling" means the fish swim together, but not necessarily in a tight group like schooling fish, they just "hang out together". Like Guppies can shoal, but not school.