How to spread fish around?

[KevinO]

Get yourself a hyper but peaceful fish/s. In my experience, when you have active fish that constantly swim, the others tend to follow. Even if it's not the same species for example a pictus catfish or some dwarf rainbows/praecox. Whatever will not bully/chase or eat your tetras may encourage them to swim more.

 

[Onion01]

try one bigger nonaggessive fish to motivate them.

the idea is not to stress them. I'd rather not resort to an enforcer

ya and get some crayfish they will hide out in the plants and snap at them when they try and hide again

Crays + small fish= fat crays. They are vicious predators

 

[leopio]

how big is the tank and how many fish do you have u mite need to get more fish
so they feel more comfortable

 

[Davey_8313]

When you gonna get some pics of the blue tetras... or is this that tank?

 

[Onion01]

Get yourself a hyper but peaceful fish/s. In my experience, when you have active fish that constantly swim, the others tend to follow. Even if it's not the same species for example a pictus catfish or some dwarf rainbows/praecox. Whatever will not bully/chase or eat your tetras may encourage them to swim more.

you don't understand. They are swimming a lot, just not where I want them to.

the type of behavior modification i'm looking for is based on adjusting water flow and layout of decoration, not bringing in more fish.

 

[SuperDave]

ya the plants would be pretty good. Hope it works out for ya. Get some pics

 

[Onion01]

how big is the tank and how many fish do you have u mite need to get more fish
so they feel more comfortable

75g, at least 12 per school

When you gonna get some pics of the blue tetras... or is this that tank?

They aren't showing their full colors yet, and i only have 4. put in an order for 11 more. i'll try to get pics tonight

 

[justonemoretank]

I would first ensure that you have a good number of each school. In a 75, with four types of tetras, I'd try for a dozen of each, at least. Also, how heavily planted is the tank? They're more likely to move into the middle of the tank if it is as heavily planted as the sides. If the sides are heavily planted, and the middle isn't, they might just think it's 'safer' to stay in the planted section. So, maybe spread the plants out a bit?

 

[leopio]

yeah i would totally do more fish

 

[its_paul]

Try moving around their landscape. is there something in particular that the fish tend to school next to?