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Old September 12th, 2008  
Fish Newbie
 
Colorful fish to stock a 29g

Hello all,

I am looking for some suggestions on stocking a 29 gallon community tank. Currently there are 5 Serpae Tetras in the tank. I would like to get fish that are peaceful, colorful, and swim all over the tank.
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Old September 12th, 2008  
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maybe yellow lab cichlids, they are very colorful but im not sure if they will be compatible
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Old September 14th, 2008  
Fish Newbie
 
I hear cichids are aggressive, also how big do they get? I was thinking Glofish, Guppies, Cory Cats, pretty much anything that will get along with my Serpae Tetras and look nice.
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Old September 14th, 2008  
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I've read serpaes can be terrible fin nippers so be careful.

I have mine with neons and they've never bothered them.
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Old September 14th, 2008  
Fish Keeper
 
I wouldn't put guppies with Serpaes. They might lose their tails. Glofish would be nice though.

I have a tank with a bunch of Neon tetras, Cherry barbs and a Powder Blue dwarf gourami. Not sure though how a dwarf gourami would fare with Serpaes.

My tank is peaceful, very colourful, lively and they swim all over the tank!
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Old September 14th, 2008  
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So far they havn't nipped any fins from each other, I am planning on a total of 6 of them so they should keep their fin nipping to each other if they start doing it.
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Old September 14th, 2008  
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maybe yellow lab cichlids, they are very colorful but im not sure if they will be compatible
Yellow labs are a mbuna which need to be in a species only tank. They will pretty much kill any other species of fish that is smaller than them.
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Old September 20th, 2008  
Fish Mentor
 
Threadfin rainbowfish, Neon tetras, male Platys, male Endlers livebearers and Emperor tetras would be nice canditates.
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Old December 16th, 2008  
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As a whole, yes african cichlids are aggresive............but the yellow lab is probably the more docile of the species............Yellow labs are beautiful to look at and very interesting to watch burrow out a den for themselves.......A single yellow lab MIGHT not be that bad for a community fish, he will hold his own against any fin nippers and generally leave other fish alone, but you never know.........maybe try some danios to go with your serpae tetras
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