schoolers with redeyes?

**sp00f** · 10-26-2010, 11:43 PM

hi - I have three redeyes and what I thought was "another type of redeye" but turns out to be an ornate. They're what's left of a slightly bigger school and I'm moving them away from the loaches (whom they HATE) and into the quieter 20g. I want to fill out the school, what types of tetra will they hang out with? I really like lemons and pristellas, are their body shapes similar enough that they'll hang out together? Also they seem kind of reclusive - should I keep some danios or other dither-y fish around to prevent them from hiding in the plants all the time, or are they just scared of the loaches?

**smaug** · 10-26-2010, 11:48 PM

They need more of there own type ,a school of 6-8 of them would bring out there personality a bit better.Mine got along well with a simliar size school of tiger barbs.

**sp00f** · 10-26-2010, 11:52 PM

the only redeyes I've seen in the store lately look really cruddy ... there's a bunch of people in town who are way crazier about fish keeping than me and they come in and snap up the good stuff I think - fish guy says he has people come in every day just to see what's stocked. I could request some more of them I guess - they're really cool little fish.

**smaug** · 10-27-2010, 12:13 AM

As long as the cruddy ones arent diseased they will look just fine after cared for .

**Goes to 11!** · 10-27-2010, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by smaug

They need more of there own type ,a school of 6-8 of them would bring out there personality a bit better.Mine got along well with a simliar size school of tiger barbs.

+1 on all of this.

Raising their numbers will help dramatically. Mine also live with tiger barbs but the red eyes are outnumbered 2 to 1 lol.