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By the way you are right about glofish being illegal in the UK

"A license from Defra is required to legally sell or house genetically modified organisms in the UK. Defra tells us that no licences have been issued in the EU, or the UK. As a result, any such fish on sale in the UK at present are highly likely to be illegal. While we do not have any real issues with genetically modified organisms (there are few, if any, significant welfare issues) we would prefer not to see such fish sold."
 
thought so....shame really as a big Glofish school would look great in my tank. Just got a Juwel Vision 260 in Dark Wood so will post pictures if i ever figure out how best to stock it with what i've already got!! Don't think you get Juwel in US, check out www.juwel-aquarium.com, decent tanks
 
You are facing a problem right now with a large cichlid that will eat your neons, it is called an angel fish, scalare. Mine has removed all 30 of the neons that I once had in my 120 gallon tank. It took place over time but after a while I noticed that I only had 10 or 12 left and a couple of months later there were just 2 or 3 left. After that, it didn't take long at all for the last ones to go. A neon is just too small to keep with an adult angel at a body size of 4 or more inches.
A good schooling fish that is not much bigger than the neons, but is big enough to live with an angel, is the rasbora, another nice one that stays fairly small is a black neon. Both of these are big enough to thrive in a tank with an angel present.
Another small cichlid that does well with smaller fish is a Herotilapis multispinosa, called rainbow cichlids. Unfortunately, they are great plant eaters and will go through all of your plants in fairly short order. This is a picture of some of mine. The plants in the background are a paper background on the tank and the plants in the foreground are silk plants. The only real plants that are surviving at all in their tank is some java ferns that have largely been eaten but somehow the plants are surviving it.
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does anyone else have experience of Neons being munched? have read a fair few posts over the net and i'm certainly not the only person to keep an angel with them with no probs. Are you saying that as the angel gets bigger she'll munch on the neons cos they've been totally fine for last 4 months - is that me just being bit naive?!?! Was comtemplating some tiger barbs maybe as they look nice, or rainbowfish. i'm taking it as no-one has commented that the guppies are safe from my angel?!?
 
No cichlids man... your neons will gone in a heart beat! Congrats on the upgrade though!
 
Would also like to say, I had a 55g rectangle with a pair of angels and about 15 neons.... everyone was fine. the neons schooled and the angels watched lol... no one ever got eaten.
 
try some dwarf gouramis, honey gouramis or something...
 
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