stocking with Kribs

Harlequins will shoal, you could also do Cardinals, Neons, Glowlights, Black Neons. Really anything like that. If ya want something that was a little more nasty tempered, get some Serpae Tetras.

I have a pair of kribs in a 38g tank, and I've got a shoal of orange von rio tetras, and a shoal of harlequin rasboras (it's small now, but I'm just building it up). All are doing fine, though I lost an orange von rio or two in the first krib spawn. Now they know when to stay away. I was kind of hoping for two distinct shoals, but they are all schoolign together... I know that by having two types of shoaling fish, I have less of each type to school, so they aren't as packed as they would be otherwise. In a 29g I'd reccomend finding one type and sticking with it. But, yes it can be done, and yes it will look nice! Be sure to have some good caves for the kribs (I find locating them at the edges of the tanks helps so that part of the kribs area is outside the tank, and they dont' have as much in tank territorial space...) Also, some hiding spots for the schoolers away from the kribs territory is good...
Emily

That method works when they have eggs and wrigglers, but once the fry become free swimming, the ENTIRE tank becomes the krib territory since they "parade" the fry around the tank.

the kribs might be too aggressive to schooling and shoaling fish. I lost two glowlight tetras and 3 guppies to a krib. if you put any fish in a krib tank make sure that they are big enough not to be eaten.

I just replaced my the neons in my 29g with hatchet fish. Big improvement!! They actually school together (neons just spread out around the tank), they stick to the top 1/3 (pretty much off the kribs radar so to speak), and are really fast. I lost some color, but as far as "fitting" my tank, I think they're winners. I'm also hoping that they will not be as much of a threat to future dwarf cichlid spawns.

Moo, make sure you have a good cover on that tank with no holes big enough for the hatchets to get out, they are notorious jumpers.

NatakuTseng said:

That method works when they have eggs and wrigglers, but once the fry become free swimming, the ENTIRE tank becomes the krib territory since they "parade" the fry around the tank.

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True, my kribs do parade their fry around, but at that point, my schoolers know to stay near the top of the tank, and they do fine. Actually, they parade the fry for a while, and then lose interest and the fry dissapear. I presume they are eaten... Actually, my Kribs are in great color right now, so I'm thinking after hte next water change, they'll dissapear for a week or two, and then show up with a bunch of fry...

Emily

you might try some phantoms(black,red). i read that sometimes they go ballistic and beat up all the fish in the tank . poor guy got his rams rippes to pieces. i assume they could hold their own against kribs. you might get issues with the sexes figting though.