Large shoals of characins

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snaggle

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I was wondering what shoals of tetras people have on here, I have around 50 red-blue Columbian tetras in my 150. I would love to build a larger tank and have a shoal around 1000 of mixed tetras.
 
I have a nice school of 40 -50 Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae in a planted 4x2x2 tank with some ozzy rainbows
 
Current shoals (all in different tanks because I don't like to mix em')

Diamond tetras
Cardinal tetras
Emperor tetras
Gold tetras

I only have these because it makes the pleco tanks look like they have something in them, not that I don't enjoy the tetras too.
 
MDK500;2146533; said:
That would be freakin' awesome... Can we see pics of your shoal now?

I just took a new video tonight I will try and to get it up tomorrow after work.
 
Pics please
 
Tried 28 golden pencilfish (Nannostomus beckfordi) before along with dozens of rummies, kerris, red phantoms and several others.:)
 
Here are a couple of pictures. These setups are not mine but I breed quite a few tetras so most of the fish are ... Should give you a bit of an idea. Most people choose predominantly one species with only one or two specimens of different shape/colour that is distinctive to add contrast.



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wow, those are some big ole' shoals!
 
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