for context, it’s a 20 gal tank that’s been cycled with readable nitrates for 2 months now. My AZ tap water makes the water super hard and the pH is weirdly high for having lots of driftwood, like around 8. I’ve just recently added 3 feeder danios to get the tank used to livestock, but they’re still settling so I’ll wait on adding more fish. I have plenty of snails in the tank, but I still might add a few cherry shrimp eventually from my established shrimp tank. Can’t really tell in the photo but there’s tons background is full of stem plants that are starting to grow.
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But point is, I eventually would like there to be 7 harlequin rasboras and another small school of a different species, so which second species would be ideal? Or I was thinking a centerpiece fish with the rasboras could be cool instead, maybe a red honey gourami? I don’t want to go super crazy with the bioload, so I’m hoping my filters and heavy planting would help with that.
There’s a big sponge filter and a pretty good overhead filter on full blast and I put some extra filer floss in there. And just in case it isn’t obvious I know not to add all the fish at once, we all had to learn somehow… rip my school of cory’s from another tank 2 years ago…
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I know a local breeder selling koi angelfish and I was so tempted to get them instead and have 2 angels on their own, but I know that’s a bad idea for my setup so please shoot it down for me so I don’t have that little bit of hope it will work. But yeah harlequin rasboras are probably my favorite schooling fish so if it comes down to it and I should only have a school of them and nothing else then I’ll still be happy.
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