Jer9935

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.

Christian Patti

maybe yellow lab cichlids, they are very colorful but im not sure if they will be compatible

Jer9935

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.

Lucy

I've read serpaes can be terrible fin nippers so be careful.

I have mine with neons and they've never bothered them.

Barbrella

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!

Jer9935

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.

Allie

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.

Blub

Threadfin rainbowfish, Neon tetras, male Platys, male Endlers livebearers and Emperor tetras would be nice canditates.

shutterbug

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