"Different" Fish for 65g Planted

[_Jessica_]

I have a planted display tank at work...the Fluval Vicenza, 65g bowfront. Plants and everything doing spectacular, but I have pretty much the run of the mill planted tank fish...angels, roseline barbs, rummynose, serpae tetras, a few rainbows, etc.

I'm doing more display tanks in the stupid retail systems we have...one per set of tanks...7 total...and I think I'm just going to do one of those with the fish above (neons, rummynose, etc).. so I think I would like to find something else for the 65g. I'm really at a loss of what to do...I do not want anything that is risky to the plants. I'm considering almost a blue and gold gourami species tank, but I think that might be a little boring. I would definitely like to keep the roselines if possible. Any ideas? The fish I have now are okay but then again I'm annoyed with how many different species are in there..the plants look nice but the fish selection seems chaotic to me (maybe my own OCD).

 

[jcardona1]

I definitely wouldn't call roselines "run of the mill" fish. Have you thought of discus?

 

[_Jessica_]

Yes but the problem is the sales tanks...I can't keep discus in those for sale, so I run into the problem of people wanting them but I don't have them for sale. I can special order but I'm finding people get frustrated with that.

I'm just interested in anything different...throw those ideas out there!

 

[negative_tea]

You could do a school of galaxy rasboras

 

[Burto]

A couple Ctenopoma acutirostre? They look pretty cool lurking amongst plants, especially when nose down, fins flared, impersonating a leaf. They shouldn't be a threat to the roselines unless the Ctenopomas are extra big and the barbs are extra small.

Dwarf cichlids? Blue rams, Nannacara anomala/gold dwarf, Apistogrammas, checkerboards, they all seem to look good with plants.

Could try several of the rarer species of gourami like chocolate, licorice, sparkling.

Maybe just one big school of a less run of the mill tetra like diamonds, Moenkhausia pittieri.