good schooling fish for a 10g

[chinaboy1021]

i need a school of fish that can acompany my Rams in my 10 gallon. ive tried cardinals but they always swimming all over the place on their own.

i would really like to try some Espe's rasbora/heteromorpha espei

they're like harlequins but much smaller. i forgot their school behaviour but i know harlequins school well even in a secure environment.

any other suggestions?
its a lightly planted tank, so tons of swimming space.

 

[ducksarefun]

A 10g doesn't provide enough room for a big enough school of schooling fish to really see their true behavior. You might get that result with white cloud minnows. I don't really know anything about Espe's rasbora, is that the dwarf rasbora? They might work, I've never seen them in any of my LFSs.

 

[FroggyFox]

not only is 10G not big enough for a good sized school of anything...but definitely not in addition to other fish. How many rams do you have in the tank already?

 

[fishysmell]

I have espei rasboras in a 10 (oddly enough) and they school pretty well for such a small tank. I would recommend 5-7 of them in a 10 granted you only have 1 or 2 rams and 1 or 2 other fish in there.

I also have a 4 fish school of 1in. bloodfin tetras which school very tight in my 10 gallon. I think blue tetras do the same so they might be an option but with either of these guys you'd have to have a bigger tank to move them to when they get over an inch.

 

[monkeyboy]

I have 8 harlequin rasboras in a 10g, and they school very well. When you first put them in (or add new ones to an existing school), it takes them a while to establish a pecking order. Before they become established, they don't school very well...but after a week or so, they form nice, tight schools while the lights are on.