Looking for ideas on new fish.

[Bagstar]

I have at present in a 40 gallon tank.

15 neons
3 guppys
5 danios
5 rainbows
1 clown loach (soon to be removed)
1 Silver gourami (soon to be removed)
2 Otocinclus cats.

I would like to add something else with a bit of colour and that is not to hard to look after, any ideas?

 

[Killerhap]

I have at present in a 40 gallon tank.

15 neons
3 guppys
5 danios
5 rainbows
1 clown loach (soon to be removed)
1 Silver gourami (soon to be removed)
2 Otocinclus cats.

I would like to add something else with a bit of colour and that is not to hard to look after, any ideas?

How about Barbs?

some nice ones:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1005
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1010

 

[piranhalova666]

i would try some dwarf cichlids ...rams...ect... that would add alot of color imo.

 

[Eupterus]

How about a pair of dwarf gouramis. Male dwarf gouramis are very colorful, you already have a gourami in there, which I assume currently is getting along..Just should check if they'd eat neons at their adult size.

 

[benzjamin13]

Koi Swordtails. These guy are very cool to me for some reason.

 

[Gypsylion]

I would say killifish but they might go after your guppies (you can get other varieties for less than the ones offered at that site. E.g. Golden Panchax killis are available at crappy chain stores around here for not much $). A lot of the barbs (like these or these) can be colorful and they'll usually keep their aggression to themselves as long as there's more than 3 of them. I've found the non-tiger barbs (Odessas, Rosies, Golds) to be very non-agressive. Other than that, there's always the livebearers (platies, swordtails, and mollies) that can be really pretty and are rediculously easy, though I'm sure you already know about those.

There are some really cool other kinds of tetras out there too like bloodfins, emperors, green fire tetras, congos (that pic doesn't do it justice - these are really beautiful), etc...

 

[davo]

Dwarf Gouramis, and the blue rams would be my favourite to add. Maybe some red tailed glass fish? I'd throw a pleco of some sort in there too.

 

[RadleyMiller]

Glowlite tetras and glow danios!

 

[Gypsylion]

I jsut saw some albino glowlights at a LFS - nice little school of flitty yellow things...

 

[AtomixIGN]

I almost bought a dozen albino glowlights the other day to run with my dozen.... I loved them.


I swear to christ I'm just going to set up a 180 planted tank so I can have all the little fish I want.

PS Blue Rams if you can keep them alive. Platies if you can't. There are beautiful varieties of platies out there. Yellows and oranges. Just fantastic. I also love Von Rio flame tetras.