Harlequin Rasbora or Neon Tetra

Which Fish?

  • Harlequin Rasbora

    Votes: 25 54.3%
  • Neon Tetra

    Votes: 15 32.6%
  • Other (read my post)

    Votes: 6 13.0%

  • Total voters
    46

jhj

William Fontaine DeLaTeur Dauterive
Oct 30, 2005
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I am thinking of getting a shoal (11+) of small colorful fish for my 75G planted. I am considering the Harlequin Rasbora or Neon Tetra. I am open to other suggestions as well.

What do you guy think?

Other Fauna: 3 Clown Loaches, 6 Rainbows, 1 Pearl Gourami, 1 clown plecco. Soon to be added: 5 otos, 2 Blue Rams, 2 apistos cacus
 
The rasboras are 10x tougher than neons plus they do some really neat spawning tricks. I feed mine (not on purpose) red color discus food and they have AWESOME colors.
 
Rainbows are too active for neons. IME they prefer to school and hang in the middle, where the rainbows are going to be. With bows, they'll hide near the bottom a lot and won't school much.

Rasboras won't care.

Rummy nose tetras are also a good option. They school bottom, middle and don't care how big or active the fish is in the middle layer. They'll school underneath it.

Roan
 
I like the cardinal tetras more so then the neons. The cardinals have a full red on the lower body where the neon tetra has only a half red on the lower part of the body. I have about 30 of them in my 75g, I also have 2 rainbows that I want bring back to the lfs for a credit. The Harlequin Rasbora are nice as well, I have thought of adding a small school to my tank.

good luck.
 
If you're looking for some color variations...

Perhaps go with something less common than the Neon.

Perhaps go with some "Penguin Tetras"

There's also many colorful variations out there! Perhaps a school of Lemon Tetras, Red Serpae Tetras, or even Blue or Green Tetras


So many species...so little tank space! :duh:
 
i think neons are too common. everyone has them. i would go for rasboras.
 
I would try for a different, but similar species of rasbora, henglei or espei. smaller but more irridescent. I wish I had another tank and I would stock it with either.
 
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