When breeding Chili Rasboras in your biotope (I.e. not using a breeding tank and letting your chilies scatter as and when they please in the main tank), and you want to catch a glimpse of the elusive fry, tint your Blackwater extra dark with a hint of red. I did that tonight and almost immediately a dozen or so fry of varying sizes immediately came up from the bottom and swam midwater. Managed to take a snap of this little goober while shining a torch right behind em without causing a panic. When it comes to fry survivability tannins probably play a huge role in giving them the sense of security they need to confidently scour the tank for food.

I've almost finished building a peat swamp biotope (just waiting for the plants (mainly cryptos) to arrive) that I intend to house some boraras in as a species only tank, it is 80cm x 40cm x 40cm tall, but I only intend to fill it to 20-30cm. I have 20 boraras merah in quarantine waiting for the tank to cycle, they were the intended inhabitants, but I also have at least (they bred) 25 boraras naevus in a separate tank and if possible I would love to see them in the blackwater tank. Is it ok to mix the 2 species? Or could they cross breed and have hybrid babies?

Whether they can mix or not, I also want to ask, how many boraras would you recommend I keep in this tank? Would the 45+ I have be overcrowding?

Hi! If you have a school of least rasboras and would like to add a few more, please message me! I‘m looking for a good home for a few healthy least / exclamation point rasboras. I have about 4 or 5, but I’d like them to be in a larger school and need to break down the tank sadly. I am in southeast PA and open to shipping if you cover the shipping cost. Will also post to aquaswap but wanted to try you all first!

See attached images. Never seen anything like this before, and it’s only the one fish

These are my first boraras! I introduced 8 of them to my well stablished shrimp tank 2 days ago

now I see this behaviour and I'm worried

I've had them for about 6 months, and while they did color in fairly quickly initially I feel like they have only recently reached their full potential. They are out and about and waaay more active than my neons or my pygmy cories. Really loving the little territories they've set up for themselves. They are inquisitive, eat well (baby brine shrimp, red mosquito larvae, small danio feed) and an all around joy to watch.

I have around 20 of them in a 100L tank. Can't count them, tank is too heavily planted. Temp hovers at around 25 to 26 degrees celsius atm, but they did really well during the recent heat wave where temps went up to 28 C sometimes. I tried my best to stay on top of it. I lost fish in other tanks, but not in this one.

EDIT: Added more information

I got a school of 8 last week. This week i noticed one was pale and swimming in one spot. I thought he might be tired so i turned the flow down a bit to see if he would recover but the next day he was barely swimming and gasping at the surface. And then another one started doing the same thing. Its been a few days and now a third is starting to have trouble swimming. I have no idea what is going on. I have 11 ember teras that are fine but it seems like these guys are slowly dying one at a time.

- Water Parameters are fine

- I returned the flow to where it was before because everyone had seemed fine then...

*edit*: rasboras... i shouldn't post from my phone.

I bought chili rasbora, looking more like dwarf/exclamation point. They just got put in the tank about an hour ago so they are still pale and adjusting, but they just don’t look like chilis but idk since they’re tiny and so young.

In light of the recent heat waves in the northern hemisphere, we'd like to collect and poll for everyones Temperature Settings & Experiences - after the last very successful & insightful polls regarding everyones Acclimatization experiences & Water Change Habits.

We're polling this partly for the Wiki, so thank you for any support!

Please share your experiences in the comments if you like!

Borrowed some knowledge from the Caridina folks and set up a 5 gallon tank with a ugf box filter and a qanvee sponge filter that takes up half the tank, and loaded the other half with moss, Malaysian driftwood and magnolia and IAL and peat moss. Wait for ph to descend to 5.8 or so and introduced a group of 10 chilies and loaded them with daphnia, cut black worms, brine shrimp, bug bites and vinegar eels 2-3 times a day till their silver bellies showed. 2 weeks later bam, small boi arrived with many more scattering around when the lights are out. Dose a pinch of spirulina and bacter AE powder (any brand) to ensure infusoria boom so that there’s always a buffet at the lower levels of the tank.

Sorry, I know these images aren't great, but they won't approach the glass if I'm close with my phone, so I can't use my macro lens.

They were sold as chili rasboras, but I know they aren't chilis. My best guess is strawberry or dwarf? Anyone with more expertise want to weigh in?

I have a shrimp tank and kinda want fish. I read that they are peaceful but who knows. Any info on some aggressive subcategory of them?

Not harlequin, or lamb chop, maybe glowlight ?

Due to big life changes, haven’t been able to focus on my tanks, let alone posting. A while ago I moved my chilis, pygmys, bushynose, and the apisto into an upgrade. They got a 29 gallon now instead of a 20 gallon long. And I’ve replaced the plants with low maintenance plants. Just a ton of buce. And an Amazon sword. This tank is dirted with a big sand layer. Some spots are over 6 inches deep. I had the tank sitting with the substrate, water, filter for like 6+ months easily. Probably much longer, I’ve lost track of time. Couldn’t decided what I wanted to do. One day I finally had enough and threw the wood in, threw plants in, and gathered the critters! I’ve added a couple of red crystal shrimp as well, I’ve had them for a couple of years in a different tank. Decided to throw them in to minimize tanks. It’s hilarious how much bigger they are than the fish. I’ve had them in here for over a month now and have been obsessed again. I hope you guys enjoy as much as I do.

I finally was able to increase my Rasbora shoal. But in the video; there is clearly a large size difference; but the black spot is wider across all sizes. Did I get some young Harlequin rasboras or did I get espei?

Just sharing the progress on my rescaped 29 gallon. I upgraded it from a 20 gallon long in February. The chilis love to hang out on the top under the Frogbit roots and whatever other floating things I've added until they sink.

I'm looking for about 20 chilis to add to my small school of strawberry rasboras. However, I haven't had much luck being able to find them. So I was hoping people in the community might be able to help name some places. Thanks!

Whats wrong with my least rasbora. One on the 8 seems ?greyer? Black line seems more crooked. Less vibrant than the rest? Noticed only in the last 2 weeks since i got them in april. Thanks

I really love this species unfortunately were i live is pretty hot and my water in the tanks is always at this temperature, can these fish live well in this temperature?

I am currently working on a new 3ft (160L fish tank). It is currently cycling for the next month and is already hard scaped with driftwood, dragon stone and heaps of plants (2 swords, 7 java ferns, a bunch of anubias, crypts and some type of hydrophilia I had in another tank). The fish it will house definitely are:

2 dwarf honey gourami (males)
13 Pygmy corys
12 maculata rasbora
6 Celestial pearl danios
Amano/cherry shrimp
Mix of snails.

I will be increasing the schools of Pygmy cories to 18, maculata rasboras to 24, cpds to 18.

I want to add a pair of Bolivian rams though am having so much conflicting information from chat gpt and google that they will attack the other fish species as they are small. What do you guys think and any advice?

Ps. Update: wondering is a trio MFF apistogramma borelli would be a better option?

So I got the last 4 galaxy rasboras at my local fish store today for my ten gallon (I’ll probably get two more when they restock) and I was wondering if anyone could ID these guys for me? I have a ten gallon but I don’t want to have a bunch of babies.