I have kept fish for over 20 years (since childhood) and these are fish that I never paid 5 seconds of attention to as they looked very plain and gray colored to me; I always went for brightly colored Guppies, neons, bettas, and platies. In creating an Asian biotope I researched fish and picked these up.. their colors though delicate shimmer in natural settings and their tight schooling habit even with just a few fish is very sweet to me.
Hey man, just ran across your channel, dig your presentation. Quick question: do these guys work well as a dither fish to bring out more shy species, or do these guys kinda chill and shy away into plants a bit? New to community tanks, so sorry if its a dumb question.
Absolutely not a dumb question at all, im really sorry for my late response, the notification got away from me, these guys are not so much a shy fish once they are used to an aquarium, they tend to be very peaceful and are always out and about if they are comfortable, their presence of being out brings other dither fish out. I Really appreciate you checking out my video
They sure are head and tailight tetras! Good eye! And the eel looking fish at that time slot may have been either the peacock goby or the panchex killifish, i do have a yoyo loach in there as well that may have been something you saw
These guys tend to be out and about after adjusting to a new tank, but they do like to explore, but for the most part they are out showing off their colors 🙂 appreciate you checking out the video!
And they are not typically the best schoolers, they do hand out but its more so lazy type schooling, if you want a good schooler check out the espie rasbora! They look almost the same but tend to school tightly and swim at the surface
I got 10 harlequin rasboras last week, but they all died in one week, one after one. The other fishes I have are fine. My tank is 7 months old. I bought 3 other ones the other day in another store to see if it was a bad batch but they still die.. So maybe my water parameters aren’t fit to them but I see many people have these fishes without any problem. What are your parameters? What’s the hardness of your water? That said, it’s a very beautiful fish
So with bad batches of fish can sometimes be a long while before the actual bad batch is gone, your local fish store probably orders on a weekly base and if it was a bad batch they are unfortunately probably still getting their fish from their distributor (which probably contains the same batch of fish you had purchased)if that was the case, now the the tank being 7 months old is amazing, you have definitely created a established aquarium at that point but depending on the size of your aquarium the adding of 10 fish at once creates a bioload that even your beautiful established aquarium isnt used to yet. Your aquarium is used to what it has in it now and now has to adapt to 10 new aquarium fish, so what probably happened was a ammonia spike that might have stressed out and killed the newly adapting fish, so what I would do is a nice 50% water change, wait a day and then try adding only 4 harlequins, watch how they do for a week or two, then do a 25% waterchange and try 4 more, repeat that until you get up to your desired number of those fish🙂 hope that helps and I appreciate you watching the video, my water parameters for Plantcity (the tank with my harlequins) is PH-7.2 NO2-0 NO3-15 NH4/3-0 KH-5 (roughly)
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 Thanks for your reply, it helps a lot. Your water parameters aren’t so different than mine. So, yes, I’m gonna look for another fish store and try. My aquarium is a 30 gallons one. I’m gonna do as you said by changing 50% of the water this week, then normal water changes for 2 weeks (10%) before adding them, in case. I can’t wait to watch more videos! Especially PlantCity, beautiful tank.
@Alex Ning really appreciate that. I'm glad it helped you out! When you are at the fish store you can also ask them how the fish have been doing ask if they have been dying off or not, that way you can know if they are a better batch, keep me updated on the future fish!
I had 6 Harlequin and 6 rummy nose on my 85g tank that had been cycling for over a month, I started losing one harlequin daily the first week, only one Harlequin made it, yet all the 6 rummy nose are there... bad batch? all seem to have been eating and almost every day one will be dead in the morning. 0.25ppm Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, 0 Nitrates, pH 7.4, temp 77, 30g Sump with bio media blocks and K1. total water volume of about 110g
Interesting there is always a possibility that the fish are in a bad batch, ive seen that many times, now if you added all 12 fish at the same time its a possibility you got a small spike of ammonia that the rummy nose might have just not been able to overcome, and by the time the tests came the bennificial bacteria in the tank may have consumed the ammonia levels to make it seem like there was no level of ammonia, I call that a "light spike" usually i add fish 3 at a timenin a new aquarium to keep an eye on the ammonia, with just 3 fish added you can see how much an ammonia is actually spiked up relatively safely, then the following week 3 more and so on so forth, when the tank is a year mature you can most likely start adding fish 6 at a time 🙂 thanks for watching!
