Will different tetras school?

[dothedew]

I would like to know if black neons and bloodfins will school.

 

[Lateral Line]

Schooling is a defence strategy. Small fish school together to make themselves look bigger, and to "loose themselves in a group" so they are less likely to be picked off by a predator. This strategy works best in larger openwater areas. Thus, schooling is not seen very often in small or crowded tanks, there is simply no advantage, and the fish go about their business as suits them - sometimes they will group together, other times they will be all over the tank.

Fish prefer to school with their own kind, under extreme threat, they will school up with similar fish.

 

[aloaring]

Ummm in tanks probably no. I used to have blue neons and black neons Turned out the blacks didn't like the blues and picked them off one by one it was only when i the last one died that i realised what was going on i had previously been blaming the gouramis!!

 

[Crookster]

No, mine don't anyway, although I was told they would at a lfs.

It's apparently the pattern and colouring that makes them school, that's why different types of cories don't school.

 

[adcs]

All my tetras shoal together in a big clump in the middle of the tank. This includes Neons, Glowlights, Cardinals and most of the time Platinum Tetras if they're not trying to follow the Zebra Danios around at the top.

And with regards to different Corys not shoaling - peppered and bronze corys shoal and my brothers Venezuala and Panda Corys liked to hang out together in little gangs.

I think it depends on the environment, the fish's personalities and what other fish you have in your tank.

 

[Underdog766]

My two different type of Corydoras did not school. I had two Aeneus Cory Catfish and an alibino Aeneus Cory Catfish and they didn't school. The albino would sit off by himself all day and not shoal with the other fish. I took the albino back to my LFS and got another Aeneus Cory Catfish. They all school and are active all day.

 

[Georgemc]

I had a penguin tetra that thought it was a black neon. It used to school with the black neons.

 

[shelly25]

We have neons, glo-lite tetras and rummynose tetras in a 29 gallon and they all stick together.

 

[tear-scar]

My green brochis schools with the bronze cories sometimes . . .

guess he can't count dorsal veins . . . though neither can they.

 

[The-Wolf]

Schooling is a defence strategy. Small fish school together to make themselves look bigger, and to "loose themselves in a group" so they are less likely to be picked off by a predator. This strategy works best in larger openwater areas. Thus, schooling is not seen very often in small or crowded tanks, there is simply no advantage, and the fish go about their business as suits them - sometimes they will group together, other times they will be all over the tank.

Fish prefer to school with their own kind, under extreme threat, they will school up with similar fish.

maybe this should be pinned
you seem to quote this a lot

 

[Angry_Platy]

My neons school together, the glolights prefer to hang with the platies....my whiteskirt tetras prefer to chase each other round the tank and ignore the other fish....

that said, there is a wanna-be neon tetra that has been known the follow the glolights

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> you seem to quote this a lot

It is because people do not use the board search system.

There are probably 5-6 questions that come up almost every week, schooling, Tiger Barbs, Rummy Noses etc. When I get time, I'll make a few stickies and refer rather then type up the same old thing again!!!!

Thanks.

 

[canarsie11]

My glo-lite tetras and Harlequins hang out all the time!