Fast, tightly schooling fish suggestions?

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Trying to plan a tank out, and I have always wanted a large school of smaller fish in a tank as it would be pretty cool to see. Of course, there will be monsters around it such as cichlids.


What is a fast, smallish fish that actually schools some what tight? seeing a bunch fo small fish roaming the tank isn't what I am looking for.

Oh, and don't say silver dollars as they are not a personal favorite of mine and tank up way too much space.

I was thinking something the size of tiger barbs but idk if they school tightly at all.

Thanks for the help... this isn't my area of expertise.
 
if ur planning on getting bigger cichlids around the 8-10 in range
then id sugest bigger schoaling fish like congo tetras, buenos aires tetras,
black skirt tetras( these guys r really quick) rose line sharks(expensive tho)
giant danios, or gold barbs, there all 3-4 in + schoaling fish
 
Lookdown Jacks

I highly recommend Lookdown Jack, (Selene vomer), for fast tightly schooling fish. They are fairly exotic, silver, thin, yet shaped like a silver dollar. Very pretty to look at and attract a lot of attention.


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Tinfoil barbs and possibly loaches for the bottom. Would help to know what size tank you were dealing with.
 
i dont know exactly what your loking for but if you end up with something big like an oscar you can kiss your schooling fish idea goodbye because oscars and most every other large (6"+) cichlids main diet in the wild consists of buggs and SMALL SCHOOLING FISH!
if you end up with something more gentle like keyholes, red parrot, angelfish, severums you culd definately have something small and schooling
the most tighly schooling fish i have ever seen is marbled hatchetfish but they like to float on top sooo ya idk if youl like them but check em out
if they dont float your boat stick with elongated (not disc shaped)tetras they seem to stick closer together than the round bodied tetras IMO and most schoolers school better when in a larger tank with more budies


oooh i just thought of glass catfish
when they are in big groups they all bunch up together but there not verry active so theres another idea if you guive up on the oscar
 
JamesBetts said:
I highly recommend Lookdown Jack, (Selene vomer), for fast tightly schooling fish. They are fairly exotic, silver, thin, yet shaped like a silver dollar. Very pretty to look at and attract a lot of attention.


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Umm...pretty sure this is a FW tank.
 
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