dither fish?

looking for suggestions for dither fish, for 20 long brevis tank

How many brevis do you have? I have 8 gold occelatus myself,I also have 8 red tail rasboras I was thinking of adding to that 20 long of mine for a dither.

aaronfeeney wrote:looking for suggestions for dither fish, for 20 long brevis tank

lol..I KNEW you would be..lol. I just added 6 Dwarf Rainbows to my shellie tank and a few Hornwort Ferns to float around. The shellies are now coming out of the shells more readily.

Any topside fish, like Zebra Daino or the Dwarf Rainbows, all work well.

Check out mythread in the plant section..lol

I saw your rainbows ,,, cool

I've got 6 small Brevis, right now

are these rainbows hard water fish?

Oh, you will also find your dominant male right away. He will chase the biggest dither fish and display like a mofugger!

Some rainbows can handle the lower 8.0 for ph why some ppl use rainbows for a dither fish in african tanks, plus there fast also. I was actually thinking of adding my 3 spotted silver dollars to my 80 gal tank that im going to put my duboisi's in.

silvers are awsome, but they will die from strees because of the small group eventualy, go for at least 5.

So far so good for my Rainbows. They are doing very well.

There is a tanganyika rainbowfish if your wanting to stick with fish strictly from there.

srsly? Moar info plz kthnx.

yes more info please on tanganykian dither

Technically I'm pretty sure that the Cyprichromis genus would be considered a Tanganyikan dither fish.

just type in google search for tanganyika rainbow fish, also like larry said the cyprichromis is considered a dither fish since they stay at the upper part of the tank and considered peaceful.

Im actually going to use gold head compressiceps, a trio of them for my duboisi tank.

Im not finding the tanganyikan rainbow fish?? I read thru allot of google stuff and it was tellin me a bunch of rainbow fish, but none are from lake tang?? Whats the latin name for the Tang rainbow fish?? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Our sponsor, "Reserve stock cichlids" has a huge stock of tanganyikan fish, and allot are peaceful mid - upper water guys that would work great as dithers