White Cloud Mountain Minnow tank mates
Every recommendation below is computed, not copied: the AquaSage engine paired White Cloud Mountain Minnow (4 cm / 1.6 in, peaceful) with 271 fish and invertebrates in a spacious reference tank and scored each pair for water-parameter overlap, temperament, predation and husbandry. A species makes the green list only when every check passes at 5–24 °C (41–75.2 °F).
Verdicts by the AquaSage engine v0.1.2 in a 450 L reference tank. Read the full methodology →
Best tank mates for White Cloud Mountain Minnow

Medaka Ricefish
4 cm · 8–28°C

Borneo Sucker
4.5 cm · 20–24°C

Least Killifish
3.5 cm · 15–26°C

Blue Tiger Shrimp
3 cm · 18–25°C

Glowlight Danio
3 cm · 16–26°C

Japanese Trapdoor Snail
5 cm · 2–28°C

Leopard Danio
5 cm · 16–26°C

Zebra Danio
5 cm · 16–26°C

Odessa Barb
6 cm · 16–25°C

Pearl Danio
6 cm · 16–25°C

Gold Barb
7 cm · 16–26°C

Peppered Corydoras
7 cm · 16–26°C
6 more species pass every check:
Possible with care
- Acei Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- African Butterfly Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Agassiz's Cory— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Agassiz's Dwarf Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Amano Shrimp— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Assassin Snail— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Auratus Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Bamboo Shrimp— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Banjo Catfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Black Moor Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Black Neon Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Black Phantom Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Black Ruby Barb— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Black Skirt Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Blackline Rasbora— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Bladder Snail— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Bleeding Heart Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Blood Parrot Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Bloodfin Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Blue Acara— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Blue Velvet Shrimp— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Boesemani Rainbowfish— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Bolivian Ram— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Borleyi (Redfin Hap)— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Brevis Shell Dweller— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Brichard's Teleogramma— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Brichardi (Fairy Cichlid)— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Bristlenose Pleco— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Bronze Corydoras— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Buenos Aires Tetra— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Bumblebee Goby— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Cardinal Tetra— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Celebes Rainbowfish— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Celestial Pearl Danio— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Checkered Barb— Everyone is close on pH — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Cherry Barb— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Cherry Shrimp— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Chinese Algae Eater— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Clown Killifish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Clown Pleco— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Cochu's Blue Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Colombian Ramshorn Snail— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Comet Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Common Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Congo Dwarf Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Congo Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Convict Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Cylindricus Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Cyprichromis— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Demasoni Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Dogtooth Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Dojo (Weather) Loach— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Dwarf Chain Loach— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Dwarf Flag Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Dwarf Gourami— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Dwarf Orange Crayfish— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Dwarf Pea Puffer— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Dwarf Petricola Catfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Dwarf Rasbora— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Electric Yellow Lab— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Elephantnose Fish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Ellioti Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Elongate Mbuna— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Ember Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Emerald Cory— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Emperor Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Endler's Livebearer— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Even-spotted Synodontis— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Fantail Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Festivum (Flag Cichlid)— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Firemouth Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Five-bar Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Flame Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Forktail Rainbowfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Freshwater Clam— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Ghost Shrimp— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Glass Catfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Golden Dwarf Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Golden Julie— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Golden Pencilfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Golden Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Green Neon Tetra— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Guppy— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Harlequin Rasbora— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Head-and-Tail-Light Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Honey Gourami— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Hongi Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Johanni Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Julii Cory— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Keyhole Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Kissing Gourami— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Lambchop Rasbora— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Lemon Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Lemon Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Little Corydoras— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Macmasteri Dwarf Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Maingano Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Malaysian Trumpet Snail— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Marble Hatchetfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Marlieri Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Masked Julie— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Mystery Snail— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Neon Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Nerite Snail— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Ocellatus Shell Dweller— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Oranda Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Otocinclus— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Panda Corydoras— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Paradise Fish— Some tension — cover and space are doing the work
- Paraguay Eartheater— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Peaceful Betta— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Peacock Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Penguin Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Platy— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Polka Dot Loach— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Port Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Powder Blue Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Purple Emperor Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Pygmy Corydoras— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Rabbit Snail— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Rainbow Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Rainbow Shark— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Ramshorn Snail— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Ranchu Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Red Empress— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Red Rainbowfish— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Red Whiptail Catfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Red-Tail Shark— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Regan's Julie— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Reticulated Hillstream Loach— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Rummynose Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Rusty Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Ryukin Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Sailfin Molly— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Salt and Pepper Cory— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Sand-sifting Xenotilapia— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Saulosi Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Scarlet Badis— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Scissortail Rasbora— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Serpae Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Severum— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Shubunkin Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Siamese Algae Eater— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Silver Tip Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Similis Shell Dweller— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Skunk Cory— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Sparkling Gourami— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Spotted Hoplo— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Star Sapphire— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Sterbai Corydoras— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Strawberry Rasbora— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Striped Kribensis— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Sunshine Peacock— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Sveni Eartheater— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Swordtail— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- T-Bar Cichlid— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Telescope Goldfish— Some tankmates are at risk of being eaten
- Thai Micro Crab— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Thick-lipped Gourami— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Threadfin Petrochromis— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Threadfin Rainbowfish— Temperature is a compromise for someone here
- Tiger Barb— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Turquoise Rainbowfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Umbrella Dwarf Cichlid— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Upside-down Catfish— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Vampire Shrimp— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Venezuelan Cory— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Wrestling Halfbeak— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- X-ray Tetra— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Yoyo Loach— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
- Zebra Mbuna— Everyone is close on temperature — one fish sits just outside its favourite
Avoid with White Cloud Mountain Minnow
- Adonis Pleco— Tank is too small for some species
- African Butterflyfish— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Altum Angelfish— No temperature suits every species here
- Angelfish— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Bala Shark— Tank is too small for some species
- Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish)— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Blue Dolphin Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Buffalohead Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Bumblebee Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Calvus Cichlid— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Checkerboard Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Chili Rasbora— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Chocolate Cichlid— No temperature suits every species here
- Chocolate Gourami— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Clown Loach— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Cobalt Blue Zebra— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Cockatoo Dwarf Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Common Pleco— Tank is too small for some species
- Compressiceps Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Crystal Red Shrimp— No carbonate hardness (KH) value suits every species here
- Cuckoo Catfish— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Demon Eartheater— Tank is too small for some species
- Diamond Tetra— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Discus— No temperature suits every species here
- Duboisi Tropheus— Only one pH value suits everyone — no margin
- Electric Blue Ahli— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Endlicheri Bichir— Tank is too small for some species
- Featherfin Squeaker— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Figure-8 Puffer— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Frontosa— Tank is too small for some species
- German Blue Ram— No temperature suits every species here
- Glowlight Tetra— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Goby Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Golden Wonder Killifish— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Green Discus— No temperature suits every species here
- Green Spotted Pufferfish— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Green Terror— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Heckel Discus— No temperature suits every species here
- Iridescent Shark— Tank is too small for some species
- Jack Dempsey— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Jaguar Cichlid— Tank is too small for some species
- Jewel Cichlid— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Kenyi Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Koi— Tank is too small for some species
- Kribensis— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Kuhli Loach— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Livingstoni— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Malawi Eyebiter— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Malawi Hawk— Tank is too small for some species
- Molly— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Moonlight Gourami— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Multifasciatus Shell Dweller— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Ornate Bichir— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Oscar— Tank is too small for some species
- Peacock Bass— Tank is too small for some species
- Pearl Gourami— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Pictus Catfish— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Pike Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Red Devil— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Red Terror— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Red Zebra Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Redhead Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Reticulated Flying Fox— Tank is too small for some species
- Rostratus— Tank is too small for some species
- Rosy Tetra— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Royal Pleco— Tank is too small for some species
- Sailfin Pleco— Tank is too small for some species
- Salvini Cichlid— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Silver Arowana— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Silver Moony— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Striped Raphael Catfish— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Sulawesi Cardinal Shrimp— No temperature suits every species here
- Taiwan Reef Cichlid— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Texas Cichlid— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Threadfin Acara— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Three-spot Gourami— Only one temperature suits everyone — no margin
- Tropheus— Only one pH value suits everyone — no margin
- Uaru (Triangle Cichlid)— No temperature suits every species here
- Venustus (Giraffe Cichlid)— A predator will eat a tankmate
- Wolf Cichlid— Tank is too small for some species
- Zebra Pleco— No temperature suits every species here
Frequently asked questions
- What are the best tank mates for White Cloud Mountain Minnow?
- Top engine-approved picks: Medaka Ricefish, Borneo Sucker, Least Killifish, Blue Tiger Shrimp, Glowlight Danio. Each shares a workable temperature and pH band with White Cloud Mountain Minnow and clears the temperament and predation checks in a spacious reference tank.
- What fish should you avoid keeping with White Cloud Mountain Minnow?
- The engine red-flags Adonis Pleco, African Butterflyfish, Altum Angelfish among others — for incompatible water, temperament conflict or predation risk. The avoid list above states the specific reason for each pairing.