neon tetras as dithers?

[Macromatt]

I was reading somewhere on the net the other day about diffrent fish that could be used for dither fish. It said a school of neons in a Chiclid tank would make them not hide as much. Unfortunatley this was a few days ago and I can't find the link for the life of me. I think my fish (4 species of Lamprologus) and am interested in trying this out. My largest fish is about 2" at the moment.

Would I just be wasting my money and sacrifycing the neons or might this actually work?


Matt

 

[JSchmidt]

Did you say "neon tetras as dinners"?



Jim

 

[Macromatt]

That's what I was thinking when I read that post. I just started thinking about it earlier today, and thought...hmmm...I've heard stranger things...so just maybe...

Is there ANY fish that can do this for Lamprolgus?


Matt

 

[wayne]

Well neons would likely work for some S American dwarfs , and I've used them myself, but I think they'd struggle woth the high pH's your lamprologus prefer. Giant danios?

 

[tanker]

Neons would be dinner fish. Try platies or guppies, they better for the hard and high-PH water as dither fish.

 

[demon_surfer]

neons are too small, you need something bigger and hardier. danios, platies, mollies, rainbowfish. there is a large list of possibles.