Hey! I've been keeping fish for a couple of years now (3-4) so I'm not the most advanced but nor am I a beginner, I have been searching for a few quite large community fish, I have been looking at silver dollars, and tinfoils and they are great, but apart from those, any large com fish for a 400-450 gallon tank? I would also love it if any of you know more of a predatory fish that could go with large tinfoils? I am willing to grow these out from babies till adults also, so something that grows faster like tinfoils.
Ideas?
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Yea but I’m sure if you keep a big enough school some will last a while or if a bigger clown loach is found it’d make a pretty addition
If you like the Tinfoils, I'd recommend the "Altus" variety. They typically max out at eight or nine inches. I currently have two of them, both about seven inches.
If you want good sized, fast growing, durable Botia Loaches, look at Y. Modesta. YoYo & Tigers.
Any group of the Dawkinsia Barbs would also be a very good addition.
If you want good sized, fast growing, durable Botia Loaches, look at Y. Modesta. YoYo & Tigers.
Any group of the Dawkinsia Barbs would also be a very good addition.
I'm biased with my suggestions because I've had, or still got these species. Tinfoils are fantastic, and yes try and get the altus if possible. Bala's are a good choice too, as are silver dollars. Those three need to be kept in numbers though. Also, as singles you could add a flagtail and chalceus. And too finish it off school of filament barbs. Personally I'd give the predator a miss, at least until all the others had put some size on.
I second on the filament barbs there awesome I had a group of 15 for about 5 years absolutely loved them fish, get to a nice good size as well and always very active.
Holy! Didn't expect this many answers so quick, with the loaches, they are incredibly slow-growing compared to tinfoils and such, so I don't want to put them in danger or them to be too stressed out, I don't think they would be the best choice, thanks tho everyone
wow, i can tell someone is a bit experienced, I am so thankful for everyone's help, I am from Australia, and I have been looking at the atlus' and I can't seem to find any, well any that aren't 300$+, and just to be clear the atlus' are the red-tailed barbs?
Below is a picture of my altus. Typically they don't get much bigger than 9" but mine is pushing 12" now, and I've read reports of them getting bigger!
As well as the altus there is also the schwanefeldii, though this one can get huge. I'm thinking that the unusually bigger altus, such as mine, may be a cross between the true altus and the schwanefeldii. Just a hunch.
Other variants are the yellow tinfoil and the albino tinfoil, though at the prices you're looking at, tinfoils may be off the list! That is extremely pricy for what is a very common fish.
