Datnoid Dither Suggestions

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Jack Dempsey
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Greetings all,

Specs: 180g 7x2x2 / FX5 / Eheim 2250 / AC110 (Mechanical Filtration)

Stock:

5x Indo Dats (3x 4-5" 2x 6-8")
2x Endil Bichir (6-8")

All pellet trained.. never eaten a feeder in their lives...

My delima...

I am looking for some opinions from the community on Dither for the tank.. I've been rolling it around in my head the past few weeks of what type of schooling flashy (silvery) dither I could house in this tank to make it a little more active to help keep these guys stable (please don't let this turn into a how to stabilize debate there's another amazing thread going on about it already)... I saw bomber with his school of Silver Dollars and Silver Dollar variants and thought they would be awesome and thats what I am leaning more towards.. a school of around 5 Silver Dollars...

but..

Other than Silver Dollars (Red Hooks and Barred Dollars etc etc) what else would you guys throw out idea wise for some good flashy quick moving dither to stir up the tank a bit and keep it lively? (Keep in mind I am not worried about the tankmates eating them as long as they are 3" or so)

Thanks as always =)
 
I think silver dollars are the best way to go. If the tank were larger, you my consider lemon barbs and/or tinfoil barbs, but those fish get huge fast and take up too much tank space. I'd say to get maybe 4-5 silver dollars and 5 large clown loaches in the 5-6 inch range.
 
My smaller IT is with 6 Geos 4 Tiger Barbs and 6 Silver Dollars. He is always stable and doesn't hide near as much as he used to when he had the tank to himself.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions guys... yep everyone seems to be on that Silver Dollar train.. =)

Clown Loaches are a great idea.. only problem is they tend to get pretty big but grow relatively slow... and I'm not one to ditch fish... unfortunately...

Geo's are a great idea as well! Only issue with that is I was thinking of a more mid/upper level swimmer... and it looks like I've been going in the right direction with thinking Silver Dollars...

I was just putting a line out there to see if anyone could come up with a schooling fish thats more.. exotic?

Thanks again guys
 
lilolmedn;4833958; said:
Thanks for all the suggestions guys... yep everyone seems to be on that Silver Dollar train.. =)

Clown Loaches are a great idea.. only problem is they tend to get pretty big but grow relatively slow... and I'm not one to ditch fish... unfortunately...

Geo's are a great idea as well! Only issue with that is I was thinking of a more mid/upper level swimmer... and it looks like I've been going in the right direction with thinking Silver Dollars...

I was just putting a line out there to see if anyone could come up with a schooling fish thats more.. exotic?

Thanks again guys
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My clown loaches all got eaten. The dats grew faster than them and one day all gone :(
 
Does anyone know if there are any fish that are found in the areas where datnoids are collected that are available in the hobby?
 
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