Any nano fish that doesn't require keeping in groups?

**torque6** · 10th Mar 2009, 01:23

I've always noticed that small fish requires a minimum of at least 6 to do well, even if these fishes don't school. In my experience, i've encountered various tetras, cyprinids becoming highly predominate and behaves highly aggressive when you keep around 3-4.

I have tried livebearers though 1 male 2 female seems to be fine.

**Mez** · 10th Mar 2009, 02:17

What size nano?
If willing to lower pH and water hardness, can consider some of the smaller wild betta species.

**illumnae** · 10th Mar 2009, 08:11

dario dario also comes to mind, as do apistos (depending on tank size)

**feide** · 10th Mar 2009, 08:57

you can consider scalet badis (dario dario).
http://www.fishforums.com/forum/laby...rio-dario.html
but the LFS here don't usually stock in females and these little guys prefer live food

**torque6** · 10th Mar 2009, 13:22

Thanks all for the feedback,
badis did cross my mind, however i recalled them taking either frozen food/ worms/bbs or live ones. Theres no accounts of them prefering hikari pellets.

Another option is the indian puffer but that too eats worms. Maybe i should drop a 3-4 pellets per week to feed my pond snails, which will in turn spawn and feed the puffer on a weekly basis.