CPD – Best Tankmates

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  • November 8, 2010 at 2:48 pm #10785
    RustyW
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    First off, thank you for taking the time to read.

    I wanted to get some suggestions for the best tankmates. I have a 38 gallon tank, with multiple plants and driftwood. I am looking to build a friendly community tank with two/three schools of fish and maybe some shrimp. My first purchase was 8 CPD. Now I am looking to add another school and/or other fish to the tank. What are your suggestions?

    November 8, 2010 at 7:07 pm #14641
    BallAquatics
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    Hi RustyW, welcome to the forum!

    Yellow shrimp look fantastic in a planted tank. A group of Otos would also work really well.

    Some of the other small Danios would be nice too. Glowlight Danios, Dwarf Spotted Danios, Gold Ring Danios, and Panther Danios would work.

    Some of the Rasboras would work well too.

    Dennis

    November 8, 2010 at 8:34 pm #14642
    AquaGirl
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    Just wanted to say hello and welcome to the forum! :D

    November 8, 2010 at 9:33 pm #14645
    RustyW
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    Thanks the replies.

    Was hoping to add some larger fish community fish, any suggestions?

    November 8, 2010 at 10:20 pm #14646
    BallAquatics
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    Larger fish and shrimp usually don’t mix very well. Even if the fish aren’t large enough to out right eat your shrimp, they will cause the shrimp so much stress that they won’t thrive for you.

    Dennis

    November 9, 2010 at 12:15 am #14649
    AquaGirl
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    Totally missed where you posted about mixing shrimp and fish. :oops:

    I agree 100% with Dennis.

    Fish and dwarf shrimp do not mix well and the shrimp are either eaten by the fish or stressed to the point of death. IMHO

    November 10, 2010 at 12:52 pm #14652
    Tom2006
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    I also agree. Shrimp and CPDs just don’t like any fish bigger than the cpds. Unless you have some peaceful catfish that is about it

    March 29, 2011 at 9:30 pm #14880
    mack
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    iv’e got a pair of powder blue dwarf gourami in my community tank with the c.p.d & they seem to get along fine

    i did have 6 albino tiger barbs in there too,and they never bothered the smaller neon’s or harlequins in the tank,but as soon as the c.p.d were added they hassled them all the time,so they (the barbs) have been moved to another tank

    April 1, 2011 at 12:46 am #14883
    ged
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    I just picked up some thread fin rainbow they seem to get along well in fact they often swim together which the cpd usually don’t do
    They are in a QT tank with some cpd it will take a while to get them settled they were in a local fish store for a year so they are a little tattered but when they are in breeding colour they are spectacular


    I couldn’t resist it is usually hard to get the females, I hope to breed them I also keep them with shrimp with no problems

    April 1, 2011 at 5:04 am #14885
    ged
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    Took this tonight lol

    April 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm #14888
    BallAquatics
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    Those are very lovely fish Ged, thanks for sharing your photos.

    Dennis

    April 1, 2011 at 10:47 pm #14889
    Carmon in NM
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    Those really are lovely fish! I’ve always wondered about threadfin rainbows and those are fantastic.

    I keep a beautiful group of gold ring danios in with my CPDs and they have done extremely well together. They both seem to have about the same level of energy (very calm) and neither group is at all aggressive. Plus, I love they way they look together!

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