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Schooling also has disadvantages, such as excretion buildup in the breathing media and oxygen and food depletion. The way the fish array in the school probably gives energy saving advantages, though this is controversial. [5] Schools of forage fish often accompany large predator fish. Here a school of jacks accompany a great barracuda.
The banded rainbowfish itself is exemplary of these traits; a hardy and peaceful shoaling fish, they make easy additions to most peaceful community aquariums and can tolerate a wide range of water parameters. Like many other rainbowfish, this species should be kept in an aquarium with a lid as they are capable of jumping out. [5]
Garra barreimiae is a small, slender fish, somewhat flattened on the underside. It grows to a length of about 7–8 cm (2.8–3.1 in). [3] [4] The head is wedge-shaped and has a suction plate on the lower jaw and a blunt snout. This fish is a fairly dark colour and is speckled; it has a paler transverse band just behind the head.
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Hemigrammus erythrozonus, commonly known as the glowlight tetra, is a small tropical fish from the Essequibo River, Guyana, South America.It is silver in colour and a bright iridescent orange to red stripe extends from the snout to the base of its tail, the front of the dorsal fin being the same color as the stripe.
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Strategies such as those outlined in the previous section can work to a degree against freely streaming fish schools, but work much better if the fish school is first compacted into a bait ball. It is difficult for predators working individually to scare a fish school into a bait ball, and they usually work together.