What Else To Keep With Juvenile Angels

Have you used the Community Creator? If you add angels to a tank, it'll make suggestions for other suitable fish. I think for Angels it suggests harlequin rasboras. Or some of the larger tetras (not bite sized). 

I looked at adding angels to my community tank and was surprised that suggested companions were on my list. I also had warnings though, for others in my tank, so I can't remember which was which!

The main fish to avoid with angels are small pencil shaped fish as they are easily eaten, certainly once the angels  grow up. Neon tetras are the natural prey of angels, and any neon sized and shaped fish will possibly be eaten. Harlequins have deeper bodies so should be OK. If fish from south America are wanted, any of the non-nippy, deep bodied tetras should work - but they need to be non-nippy species because of the angelfish's fins.

Hi Helen,
              yes I did use the compatibility thing and will try the big barb idea, 

Thanks all,
                  I tried the Community Creator and it said Five Band Barbs and Cardinal Tetras as Helen said
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Sue mentioned Harlequins,but I don't know what the "non-nippy" deep bodied Tetras are called ?

Names please

I don't know what the "non-nippy" deep bodied Tetras are called ?

...and the deep-bodied tetras include the ones that look like that in the relevant section of this page http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/fish-profiles eg phantom, widow/skirt, diamond, emperor, bleeding heart, Columbian, silver dollar, head- and tail-light, lemon, red-eye and rosy.

Hope that helps. 

OK that's it !!
                      conflicting advice from the fish keeping fraternity 
Will someone be brave enough to name one fish that I will buy 10 of that wont bite my Angels fins?

Sometimes it's impossible to say that a shoal of fish wont nip as sometimes it's down to the individual fish in the shoal rather than the species itself.

Couldn't agree more with this comment!

...and to illustrate the point Littlefish made, and my emphatic agreement, it was actually a harlequin rasbora I was referring to - I have one who terrorises and chases all ten other fish in the tank relentlessly every afternoon without fail.
 

Is your water hardness between 10 and 15 DH?

Angelfish are quite slow moving whilst platys are very active. Does any one think they would stress the angels as a result?

Other than this, I don't see why it couldn't work...

I have espe's rasboras (Trigonostigma espei), one of the species closely related to harlequins, and they are anything but aggressive and nippy. I think I have 14 of them but they are very tricky to count in tank with lots of plants and wood. (I bought 18 but three died within the first couple of weeks. I asked for and paid for 15 but there were 18 in the bag  )

However, I partially retract my statement about keeping them with angels - with any fish in fact - because Trigonostigmas of any of the three species like cover. Seeing mine first in a tank with no floating plants and now in a tank with almost the whole surface covered in plants I can definitely say that they don't like being exposed when the tank light is on. When I first got them I didn't have any floating plants and they hid in a corner. Then I bought some water sprite and they hid under that. As the water sprite has grown, they venture further into the tank but only as far as the edge of the plants.
So my partial retraction is to say - harlequins or one of their lookalikes provided you have some plants (real or synthetic) floating on the water surface.