Hello everyone! Pretty much what the title says. First attempt was months ago with a school of 8. One by one they all died. They barely ate and remained pale as ghosts the entire time. Ok, I figured maybe the tank was too new for these sensitive little guys and not as stable as I thought, though the tank was already 3 months old at the time with a thriving colony of shrimp, some pygmy cories, celestial pearl danios, a long finned betta and ember tetras. 100 liters. Heavily planted.

Shortly after that I ended up rescaping it with a much bigger piece of wood going through the middle, even more plants, added kuhli loaches from another tank, moved the embers to another tank, swapped bettas, etc and kinda gave up on chilis. Thought I'd just keep it with the way it is with the 10 CPDs, 10 kuhlis, shrimps and betta. But something is missing...

Placed an order for another 5 danios and 🌟15🌟 chilis, hoping that the first attempt maybe failed due to small numbers in auch a big space. They arrived 3 days ago, acclimated them over 3 hours with all the lights switched off, so in near total darkness, and then the next morning we realised they have ick. K, no big deal, we have medications and started treating straight away. Yesterday we already counted only 11...all new danios are fine and coloring up. Some chilis are kinda red, which is nice, all of them ate, which is also great, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm still going to lose them all anyway probably. And the weird thing is that only the chilis have ick. None of the other fish are affected even after sharing their space with them this entire time. Stress?

So the tank is 80cm long, 40cm tall, cycled half a year ago. Ammonia and nitrites 0, nitrates maybe ~5, pH 7.4. I can't post pictures, and this is a throwaway account, but believe me when I say it's well planted with plants at different heights and levels, the light is dimmed down to 25%, all other fish and shrimp are doing great, eat like wolves, nicely colored up, interactive with us and one another, just a joy to watch. Obviously when/if these guys all die, I'll just cross them off the list forever, but can anyone please help me figure out what's wrong?

Edit: I'm sorry this is so long...

A few months ago I got 6 chill rasboras from my lfs (trying to get a few more when they are in stock) and they just never settled in and have been glass surfing and swinming in the bubbles of the sponge filter non stop as well as being very pale. Despite this they eat fine and look physically good other than the paleness.

The tank is heavily planted with dim lighting due to lots of floating plants and no tank mates besides cherry shrimp and aquatic isopids.

The water peramiters have always been stable; PH between 6.8 and 7.2, KH between 60 and 70 mg/L, alkalinity about 50 mg/L, ammonia 0 mg/L, nitrite 0 mg/L, nitrate 0-10 mg/L (Admittedly, I only have mediocre test strips So I don't have super accurate readings on water parameters but they seem to work good enough) and water keept at 77° Fahrenheit.

The only thing I can think could be stressful to them is my water is pretty hard, (GH is around 100) and the relatively small shoal size. The only reason I don't think it's either of those things is because the lfs I bought them from has a similar tank to mine with only 3 chilles and use local water and they are bright red and perfectly healthy.

I realy don't know what to do at this point.

Hi everybody :)

I just got my new shrimp in my 30L tank however they arrived with a blind passenger, one single Rasbora... I feel incredibly bad for him. I know that they are swarm fish. I have a 55L tank that is not fully cycled yet and to be honest I really wasn't planning on adding Rasboras to that tank... Will the little guy be okay on his own? The tank is pretty well planted so he has lots of hiding space.

I don't breed fish. However, I did my usual partial water change with 50 / 50 RO to tap water, co-incidentally the light timer blew that day, and I must have knocked my heater gauge which sent the temp up to about 29 degs. Must have done something to spark their libido as now I have a tank full of little critters. Heheh!

Current plant stocking includes java ferns, java moss, bucephalandra needles, a banana plant and a red dwarf lily

Have a two month old 15 gallon set up with a bunch of blue dream shrimp + shrimplets that are currently growing out really well in the tank. I'd like to add chili rasboras, but I am a bit worried about the plant stocking for this tank. Would this be dense enough where the chilis aren't afraid to swim in the mid levels? The light is relatively at a low intensity (10-14 PAR, 20% intensity for a 18W SEAOURA for 6 hrs.)

Also do they typically jump? should I get some type of cover for this tank?

Bunch of blurry buggers. They will parade around beautifully until I get the camera out, then they will mysteriously dissolve into little red streaks leaving the frame as quickly as possible

All the websites I've looked at seem to have different lengths listed, anywhere from 0.47in to 1.6in (1.19-4.06cm). How tiny are these little fish? Are they smaller than celestial pearl danios?

I have planaria in my tank I also have there amano shrimp and 1 nerite snail, 3 otos. I don't really want to use no planaria. I have 14 rasbora I bought them a week ago will they eat planaria ? I'm afraid they will kill my amanos or nerite snail. Last week one of my amano died but I don't think it was from planaria, but on the corpse there were some...

I am looking to beef up by Chili shoal by adding 10 more fish. In the past, after quarantine I have just added all the new stock to the tank at once and it's caused quite a kerfuffle for the resident fish and through stress has caused a loss here and there. I am curious if anyone has tried a slower approach, maybe adding a fish or two each day until everyone is transferred? It's an experiment I'd like to try anyways and am wondering if there's something I'm missing that would make this a bad idea.

Currently have 8 chilis, 6 EDR, 2 amano shrimp, and 10 blue neo shrimp that are multiplying like crazy. Had a staghorn algae problem that is now under control.

Just wondering if its naturally they have white iridescent feature since my fish have strong red color with iridescent on certain angle. I can’t show on picture because it couldn’t capture properly.

Hello, I am currently cycling a 29 gallon tank, there are plants growing in there, and should hopefully provide enough cover for any fish I put in there when its time.

I have decided to get a Honey Gourami, and 6-8 Panda Corys, but for my last option I was thinking of doing Chili Rasboras or Ember Tetras, according to AqAdvisor, If I do a Honey Gourami, 8 Panda Corys, and 16 Ember Tetras, I would be at 115% filtration, and 69% stocked, so should be fine if I go that route.

But when I change out the tetras for Chili rasboras, it says I can only do 10 Chili Rasboras with 1 Honey Gourami, and 8 Panda Corys to get the same 115% filtration and 69% stocking level.

I feel like that is wrong? I've read that you can keep more Chili Rasboras compared to other fish due to how small they are? how many could I keep instead, maybe 20-24?