Spotted Blue Eye Rainbowfish

[crazyforcordoras]

Hey all, getting a new planted tank and i am going to put a school of dwarf rainbows in there. I like spotted blue eyes the best. Are they easy to care for? Has anyone had any experience with them? Tanks

 

[KittyKat]

Pseudomugil gertrudae? I used to keep them: they're not picky about anything, so easy to care for. I kept them in a 1 ft and a 4 ft tank, but I think that they would do better in a 1.5-2 ft tank. I strongly recommend a mixed-sex group of at least 10 individuals. The following page pretty much sums up most things that you need to know about them: http/rainbowfish.angfaqld.org.au/Gertrud.htm

 

[crazyforcordoras]

Yep those are them. I read on a site you can keep them in 5 gallons. Is this correct?

Thanks!

 

[KittyKat]

I read on a site you can keep them in 5 gallons. Is this correct?

No, that is not correct: it is possible to keep them in a 30*25*25 cm tank (which happens to be 5 gallons), but it is a bad idea to keep them in a shorter tank (which can also be a 5 gallon) because they are moderately active and need the space to swim. As I said previously, my own experience is that they would do better in a 45-60 cm tank as opposed to a 30 cm tank.

 

[crazyforcordoras]

Oh, are there any other small rainbows i could fit in a 5 gallon? Celebes, fork tail blue eyes,? If not then i will get dwarf pencilfish

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Oh, are there any other small rainbows i could fit in a 5 gallon? Celebes, fork tail blue eyes,? If not then i will get dwarf pencilfish

Celebes are definitely out of the question I would have thought, these grow bigger than Pseudomugil gurtrudae or furcata.

My experiences with pencilfish are very limited, I have had 6 tank bred Nannostomus beckfordi for about two months. These have been kept in my squat 130l Aqua One 620T (~60x40x55cm) with no other fish, but the tank is acting as a temporary plant nursery to my Anubias (some is attached to floating PVC pipes that break up the water surface). The dominant male is very boisterous for such a small ~3cm SL fish, at times he chases the other male relentlessly and to a lesser extent the four females. Consequently, I'm very close to moving the group to my 48x12x15, to give the group more space to roam and hopefully escape the dominant male!

 

[KittyKat]

Oh, are there any other small rainbows i could fit in a 5 gallon? Celebes, fork tail blue eyes,?

What are the dimensions of your tank? Half my point was that it is not possible to say that this or that fish fits into a 5 gallon tank without knowing the dimensions of the 5 gallon tank. A 40*25*20 cm 5 gallon will take quite different fish from a 30*25*25 cm 5 gallon, which is again very different from a 5 gallon bowl.