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Gill Passman
September 26th 05, 12:37 PM
Al Haunts wrote:
> I've finally upgraded from a 10 to a 55 gallon freshwater planted
> tank. 80 watts of flourescent lighting (pair of 4' GE Chroma 50's).
> Filtration courtesy of an AquaClear 300. Plants and fish seem to be
> doing fine.
>
> Present occupants:
>
> 6 Neon Tetras
> 5 Black Neons
> 6 Zebra Danios
> 1 pair Dwarf Gouramis
> 3 Corys
> 4 Otos
>
> I like to add about a dozen more Neon Tetras to get a real 'shoal' of
> them going in the bigger tank. Will a bunch of new Neons fit in with
> the existing 6 bigger (2 year old) ones? Any comments welcome.
>
> Regards, Al.
>

A school of Neons looks really cool. I sometimes find that it is
possible to buy larger ones in my local LFS as well as the smaller ones.
On the other hand I recently added some smaller ones as my previous
school was down to just one larger one with no problems. JME

Gill