Favorite dither fish?
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Great question!
Buenos Aires tetras are mine - they get a considerable size and are fearless, unlike something like silver dollars or balas. Mine would steal food from my dempsey when it was smaller and even looked like they had damage from lip locking him (though that could equally have been from hitting a wall too hard). That said, they aren’t mean like my Aussie rainbows. As a bonus, they look like mini piranhas.
For smaller fish, I like serpae tetras a lot - great color and very peaceful.
Buenos Aires tetras are mine - they get a considerable size and are fearless, unlike something like silver dollars or balas. Mine would steal food from my dempsey when it was smaller and even looked like they had damage from lip locking him (though that could equally have been from hitting a wall too hard). That said, they aren’t mean like my Aussie rainbows. As a bonus, they look like mini piranhas.
For smaller fish, I like serpae tetras a lot - great color and very peaceful.
Colombian tetras
+1 on Columbians - they get a nice blue and red color.
Bleeding heart tetras are pink.
It’s best to get a color that compliments the cichlid in question imo.
Bleeding heart tetras are pink.
It’s best to get a color that compliments the cichlid in question imo.
I do like the exodons but I have heard that they are like miniature piranas and I have a geophagus redhead tapajo with some nice trailers I wouldn’t want to get nipped at.
Exodons are an amazing fish, but are naturally scale and fin eaters. Most tankmates quickly wind up being harassed endlessly.
the smaller barbs like rosy or odessa, and denison