I have this planted aquarium tank around 2 months now and added a 13 chili rasbora last week and im thinking to add 7 more of chili rasbora should i add more or no?

I also have a clean up crew a Otocinclus, Amano and bloody mary shrimp.

Kinda new to this hobby and still learning thank you!

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One of my Celestial Pearl Danios had whitish spots appear on it and then after a while it's sort of looked a little bit bent and had difficulty swimming and diesld. 3 weeks later another one died. My water parameters are good and I used a little bit of Pimafix for a week and then a little bit of Melafix and added a little bit of aquarium salt. Then the next one died. I'm down to four now in an 8 gallon aquarium and two Amino shrimp. I'm tempted to just let them continue to die and then not sure if I should just get a heartier fish after waiting a few weeks.

Welcome any suggestions!

I have this 10g tank with 2 cherry shrimps (10 on the way), and 2 nerite snails. My original plan was to get a betta but I heard too many mixed opinions saying that I risk my shrimps getting eaten. I am now very interested in chilis due to their size and how cool they look. Do yall think it’s a good match?

I plan on letting my shrimps establish before adding fish anyway. Probably gonna take a couple more weeks. Just doing research for now. If yall have any suggestion pls lmk❤️

Will chili rasboras lay eggs in a tank with ph 7.4 and pretty hard water? I’ve been thinking of setting up a spawning mop in my tank and adding it to a 5 gal bucket with a sponge filter and heater with half rainwater half my well water. I would fill the bucket with a bunch of oak leaves and some java moss. Will this be worthwhile or are my chilis unlikely to be breeding in their current environment?

Wondering how well other fish gets along with Chili Rasboras. I've got 13 Chili's in a 15g and I'm wanting to upgrade and re scape my other tank which has 10 green neon Tetras in it. Wondering if I could move the Neon's to the Chili tank for a few months while I scape and cycle their new tank. The neons are bigger, faster and more playful then the Rasboras and I'm worried they might bully them. I'm going to a lfs tonight to buy some plants as they just got a new shipment in so the Rasboras have more places to hide but I also don't want them to have to hide in their own tank.

I have had my planted tank for 5 years. All parameters are fine. I added 10 more chili rasbora (5 already in the tank) last saturday and now they seam all dead. I saw 2 dead myself and as it is much planted and with shrimps and snails I guess the other just disapeared. My parameters are ok (0-0-5), I drip-acclimated them over hours, and they are now just dead. What happened? I thought they were much smaller, paler and less healthy than the ones I already have but I've put it on the fact that they were stressed at the store. Can anyone help me? I drove over an hour to get them and I'm so sad now 😓

Hi, I was wondering if these readings are good for least rasbora, I have a 8 gallon I want to put some in, could I also start with two before I go all in and buy 6?

Im about to do it friday

I bought a school (13) chili rasboras a few months ago. They’ve been eating, but haven’t colored up at all. Im wondering if theyre actually exclamation point boraras.

I’m looking at setting up my first fish tank—either a 20 or 30 gallon planted community tank. Im not completely new to fish keeping, I’ve helped friends set them up before, but it’d be the first one that’s entirely my own. I love nano fish, so I was thinking a big group of a really colourful rasbora would be amazing.

My two favourites at the moment are chilli rasbora and green kubotai. (Very open to other ideas!) Are either of these suitable for a first tank? The water in my area is supposed to be quite hard, which I think they tend not to like as much, but most of the care guides I can find say that they both are adaptable to water hardness.

I’m also interested in raising fry at some point down the line. I’ve heard chilli rasbora are quite hard to breed indoors? Are the green kubotais or a different rasbora altogether any easier?

My boyfriend would also like a bigger centrepiece fish that would contrast nicely with the rasbora. He loves the blue rams, which would look amazing with the chillis, but I know they’re not suitable for beginners. Are there any combinations of feature fish/rasbora that work really well and look great?

I was wondering what lower light plants I can have for my future chilli tank, as the azolla has taken a lot of the light and I like that it’s covered the top, I have some hygrophila poly but wanting more fast growing “weed” plants to fill out the tank that enjoy 26-28 celcius, that chilli’s like. Java ferns seem to grow really slow for me. (The top of the tank is now overflowing with duckweed and azolla)

I'm just planning out a future tank and I have decided on chili rasboras for my 20g breeder tank. I'll be doing an aquascape with a bunch of plants established before adding them. But I am curious what the best kind of filter would be for them? Everything I see says they like low flow, and ideally I would like a sponge filter because I plan on having cherry shrimp with them and I worry that both of these critters will be sucked into a normal filter lol. Any advice for me?

I have a Roma 240 currently empty. The plan is to upgrade the filter to a Fluval 407 and set it up with plenty of plants and hardscape.

Is the flow likely to be too much for a group of 20-30 chilli rasboras? Never kept them before but my understanding is that they're not the strongest swimmers.

I’ve read somewhere that chilies don’t spawn until 2 years of age. Does anybody actually know? I have a school I obtained as juvenile/teenagers, nearly adult size but far from being big males etc.

Im in tuscon arizona and I'm having trouble finding some chilli rasboras does anyone know where I could find some

I bought some chilis about a week ago. When I bought them they had no color at all. Now they’re starting to color up! This one is much more red than the others. Anyone know why? Sorry for the bad picture, they’re so fast lol

So, I have a 15 gallon Community tank, right now I have a female plakat betta, 5 kuhli loaches, and an unknown amount of shrimp. I got 5 blackline / brilliant / red tailed rasbora (same fish, different names), but I feel they are too big, deserve a bigger school, and I worry for their well-being, so I will be returning them tomorrow.

Could someone give me suggestions for the best rasbora (or maybe other microfish) to join the community? My LFS has some emerald dwarf rasbora I have my eye on. I would really like chilis but I don’t think they are in stock at my LFS and I do not feel comfortable shipping them in the winter.

I have 3 chilis that I have had for about a year. I know they like to be in bigger groups, but my LFS doesn’t always have them in stock.

I finally bought 3 more the other day when they had them and wondering if they are actually chilis after seeing them next to mine. Or maybe they are very young and don’t have their color yet?

TIA