schooling fish
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patoloco
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Danios seem to be tighter schoolers to me. Also, they are more active and a lot more agressive. I've had some small zebras (only 4) and they kept togheter as one, and kick the s**t out of some neon tetras.
I woul I would have to agree with Cardinal Tetra's. They look just like the neon Tetris but have more color. Once fish become comfortable in their environment they may not school any more unless they feel threatened.
Neons are really pretty, but I have 10 in a 180g, along with a few bigger fish and they still don't school all the time. Unless you have a really big tank and a really big school, after a while, most fish realize they don't have to school for safety b/c there is nothing after them and will sort of form lose groups.
patoloco
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The only almost-certain way to have your fish in a tight school is to make them feel endangered, since schooling is a way to defend from predators.
There was a topic a few days ago where we discussed this same subject and we realized that forcing a group of small fishes to school using bigger predator fishes would end up in
1- Small fishes being eaten by the bigger one.
2- Heavily stressed fishes
3- Fishes getting used to the big guy and dispersing again.
However, my most desired tank setup at the time would be a heavily planted 180 gallon tall tank, with 4-5 discus and a school af around 80 cardinal tetras with a blue moonlight system for night watching.
There was a topic a few days ago where we discussed this same subject and we realized that forcing a group of small fishes to school using bigger predator fishes would end up in
1- Small fishes being eaten by the bigger one.
2- Heavily stressed fishes
3- Fishes getting used to the big guy and dispersing again.
However, my most desired tank setup at the time would be a heavily planted 180 gallon tall tank, with 4-5 discus and a school af around 80 cardinal tetras with a blue moonlight system for night watching.
IMO for schooling fish, just swimming in the same tank should be considered schooling behavior. I have 4 tanks linked with water-bridges and all my Tetras stay together in the same tank. My other fish will swim to and from all my other tanks, but the small school of about 40 Tetras have never split up.
patoloco
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Swimming in the same tank doesn't mena thay are schooling. Just haven't found a way out. 
Schooling is a practice used by fishes to look like a big fish, thus trying to change the predators mind about attacking. Also, if the school is attacked, the multiple targets will give a hard time to the predator in choosing one to munch on. Schooling requires all the fishes moving at a relative same speed and in the same direction, forming a tight group.
Two examples of schooling
For distracting predator
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This looks like a huge fish.
Once fishes get to calm waters the schooling is likely to disolve, so each fish can mind his own business.
Schooling is a practice used by fishes to look like a big fish, thus trying to change the predators mind about attacking. Also, if the school is attacked, the multiple targets will give a hard time to the predator in choosing one to munch on. Schooling requires all the fishes moving at a relative same speed and in the same direction, forming a tight group.
Two examples of schooling
For distracting predator
[
This looks like a huge fish.
Once fishes get to calm waters the schooling is likely to disolve, so each fish can mind his own business.