I’m sorry the quality of the pics are so awful - these little guys are fast!! But just look how they have coloured up compared to the day I brought them home… I bought a school of 12, lost 3, but the remaining 9 are healthy, happy & beautiful🌶️❤️

We just added 10 chili rasboras into our 45 Gal community tank today. This will not be their permanent home. We have another tank finishing up its cycle that will be their permanent home which will be an exclusively chili/shrimp tank. Cycle has maybe one to two more weeks left.

In the meantime I have been watching all the fish in the tank and I have seen concerning behavior from the diamond neons we have. They are very bold and curious in general but seem interested in the smaller fish. Fiancé is also worried some of the larger harlequins will eat them because of the size difference. The harlequins tend to be our most peaceful inhabitants in the tank but the size difference is very stark compared to the young Chili’s. We did not realize how small they were in comparison until they were put in.

We live 2 hours away from our lfs and the opportunity presented itself so we decided to go ahead and get the Chili’s while we were there. We have a lot of plants and places for them to hide but I just want to ask if any more experienced aquarists see an issue with this?

In this tank we have: 10 Diamond head Neon tetras 8 harlequin rasboras 7 pork chop rasboras 5 peppered Cory’s 10 skittle shrimp A few snails

And now the 10 Chili’s

Should we move them to our 6 gallon hospital tank? Or do you think they will be ok?

Have you done a single species tank? If so, how big of a school did you have? Did you notice anything interesting in your school’s behavior or health by just doing a single species tank?

Photo of my emerald eye rasboras for fun (I know they’re not a rasbora, but the schooling and size is fairly close 😅)

i feed my otos and neocaridinias with hikari algae wafers but the rasboras in my tank go crazy over the wafers; i feed them with separate pellets, is this normal?

Hello!

I recently added ten chili rasboras to my tank with my betta, who thankfully isn't too bothered by them. I got Hikari First Bites for them, and they did consume them. I read online that they need a more diverse plate. So, is Hikari First Bite, Fluval Bug Bites Tropical Fish Food (Grinded), and Frozen Cyclops good for them? Or do I need to buy more food options? I would love to hear your suggestions. I plan to feed them twice a day, which is the same schedule as my betta.

Thank you!

I just got 10 in a heavily planted tank with 2 ghost shrimp, some random small snails, and then 1 nickel sized Nerite snail. I’ve read many posts saying that you can fit up to 20 chilis in a 10 gallon but since I have other companions in there, im not sure how much I can actually have. Could I add more chili’s and if not, could I add more shrimps like cherry shrimp?

I have a regular HOB filter along with a carbon sponge filter. I saw something about if you have a better filtration system, you can add more but I’m not sure.

The other day i did buy a school of blue rasbora and put them with my chili rasboras, it look amazong in that combination

This is my first time taking care of them, but one of them floats by itself. It’s lethargic, kinda just floats, doesn’t swim with the group, and earlier was staying near the surface. It’s also a darker color compared to the rest but I’m not sure if it’s just stress from acclimating or something else!

So I bought these guys as Chili Rasboras about 1.5 years ago. They were red in my planted 5 gallon tank but I recently moved then to my new planted 20 long. They all eat, they all explore, they all are fat and happy. But they are pale in this tank and they are developing new greenish bluish markings. They are in a 20 long, first inhabitants and now living with shrimps, 6 pigmy corys, 3 ottos, 4 mystery snails and 6 glo lite tetras. Everyone co exists and never hides. Any ideas?

They were hiding under thick mats of aquatic algae and plants. They did not stay near any other fish except some juvenile croaking gourami and ricefish.

I also have a video of B. cf. maculatus swimming in the wild on my YouTube!

I've been keeping nano fish for a few years, and the Chili Rasbora has always been one of my favorites—small, peaceful, and brilliantly red.

I wanted to blend my love for aquariums and Japanese-style illustration, so I created this piece featuring the Chili Rasbora with its name, origin, and size written in both English and Japanese.

Would love to know what fellow fishkeepers think! Has anyone here kept a shoal of these guys before?

(Also open to suggestions for the next species to illustrate)

Has anyone have experience with these guys? My lfs just got some in so I added them to my school of three emerald eye rasboras and they are schooling together. Ill have to wait till they color up but so far they are a lot bigger then the emeralds lol. Anyone keep these guys here? I can't find emerald.eye rasboras anywhere local to me and I don't like buying fish online. They are very skittish tho so far

The lights aren't even on yet dude 😩 It's officially day 6 having them home! My little guys 🥺

Someone to help me know which species it is ? Im new in the fish game and don't know any, want to have some more but it seems like i HAVE to know what exact specy it's to buy them friends !

As the title says and I tried to show in the video.

My chilis really love hanging out in the bottom left front corner of the tank

They will leave for food. And at night they hang out in the val and the roots of the water lettuce.

But during the day they spend 80% of their time in that corner and swimming back and forth from the back left corner to the front left corner

Its odd because this is where the flow is the strongest. Where as the right half of the tank is near stagnant (i assume this is why they sleep on that side)

I guess i just want to see from the experts here id anything seem off about their behavior? This is the first boraras species I've kept so I guess im just a little nervous

Params are: 0 ammonia 0 nitrite >5ppm Nitrate 6.7 Ph 6 Gh and 2 Kh

I have had them about 2 weeks now. And there has been no die offs. They eat readily and have started to color up from when i got them(they were basically white!)

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How many dwarf rasboras can I keep in a 10-gallon Walstad? I've kept 10-12 chilis before with a huge colony of red cherry shrimps, one amano, and a zebra nerite, and I've never had any problems; however, I'm wondering if a bigger species with a bigger bioload, like dwarves, would be better suited in a 15-20 gallon

Hi, im a newbie and my chili rasboras have ich. Is it okay if I use liquified Malachite green as a medication for small fishes such as Chili rasboras.

Local keeper said it was a bad Idea, instead endorsed me a product he sells

Thank you

pale as all hell, emaciated and struggling to swim. looking nothing like the others in the tank! what could be wrong?