Topside fish capable of existing with escondido?

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In our 75gallon, we currently have 4 young carpintis escondido growing out. Other tank mates consist of 8 botia striata, 1 king tiger pleco, 1 spotted medusa pleco, 1 clown pleco, 1 peppermint pleco, 2 thor. meeki.

Once the carpintis grow out some more I'll be getting rid of a few of them and keeping either a pair or just 1 who seems to have the best personality of the bunch.. still debating on that.

I had a few danios in the tank, and a few were glolights I'd moved over there to clear out our 10g that I turned in to a QT tank. For whatever reason, the glolights were targetted and killed off out of the blue. They'd been in the tank forever. The escondido were introduced to the tank close to a month ago now. Last week is when the killing started. The biggest escondido was killing to eat.. not for fun or sport. Clueless as to why it wanted that as they were being fed 4-5 times a day... she's fat as heck already.. lot of mass for her size imo.

Anyhow, my wife was talking to me the other night about how there's not much color in the tank right now, aside from the plants, and wants me to get more color in the tank now that the red glolights are gone.

I know it's likely an exercise of futility, but are there any other topside fish I could introduce to the tank that would add some color to the tank and be able to possibly survive a few months without the escondido going after them? The other fish in the tank are not bothered ever.. at least so far they still remain as such. I was looking at giant danios and tinfoil barbs but neither of them are all that colorful, at least they didn't seem like it.

Thanks for any ideas.
 
they are pretty fast growers
try some tiger barbs they generally work well as dithers
but not sure are more than one escondidos
 
Best surface fish I know is pinktail chalceus, but if you escondido's decide to mess with it it's going to be toast. One of my severums was picking at mine when they were in the growout, but interestingly he leaves it alone now that they're in the big tank. But it would be too big to eat, so if they just went at the danios to eat them you might be OK.
 
New guinea red rainbows get to good size and are quick they are a lil pricey for dithers though. I'm using some congo tetras that I already had and so far its great
 
glolight =color . would be like throwing a brown stick on a line versus a perch colored shad rap . which bait do you think you'd catch more bass on? try some aussie rainbows or , possibly some emporer tetras
 
harvick29fan;2937261; said:
glolight =color . would be like throwing a brown stick on a line versus a perch colored shad rap . which bait do you think you'd catch more bass on? try some aussie rainbows or , possibly some emporer tetras
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I agree 100% with ya regarding the bait analogy. I used it myself with my wife actually...

..And that's where I run in to the problem I'm having with my wife. Until the escondido grow out and color up more, they aren't very colorful in her eyes and the plecos do what they do best.. graze and sit under neath the spraybar filtered rocks chilling in the current, and the loaches... well she just doesn't like them. I'd entertained putting in some bosemani rainbows from N-E cichlids as they aren't that far fetched in price and I wanetd to pick up an eel from him anyways. I moved in a 5" possibly female GT ove the weekend from the QT tank, and so far it's working out really well. Somehow, this fish has become her favorite even after I asked her repeatedly if she liked the fish when browsing pics.. of course the resounding answer was, "no, no, no." Now if I bring those conversations up, she asks if I really ever showed her what teh GT was... have to throw my hands up at that point.

Anyhow, gonna see how things work out for now and look at other surface fish as time goes on.
 
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