Some good ideas here folks, thankyou.
It can be difficult to get micro fish around here, the shops normally don't stock them, they figure they end up as lunch in most peoples tanks with larger fish present, so they tend not to sell very well when they do have them. So basically they don't bother getting them in most of the time.
I had some spare time yesterday and visited a couple of the largest lfs around the city here, one shop had farm bred Galaxy rasboras, cute little guys but expensive at about £5 each and considering 10 of those guys would still look pretty lost even in a small tank I ruled that one out pretty quick, nice little fish but wrong colour and shape for me, although I was surprised to see them at all, they were definitely farm bred though I know this shop well they wouldn't stock them otherwise.
They also had one lonesome Rasbora maculata all on his own, they look good I would have probably bought those if they had more of them.
The next shop actually had lampeyes Ed, nice fish with the big blue eyes , I had read somewhere that they breed very easily so I didnt really want to get into all of that scenario of being over run with fry, but maybe they ain't so easy to breed?? I will probably go back to that shop tomorrow anyway so will have a good look at them again, what sort of max size would these fish get, any idea?
But thanks for the other ideas as well, the tank won't be ready/grown out for about a month so no hurry with stocking, I will keep looking around.
Dave/beeky the ember tetras look excellent I will keep an eye out for them
Thanks for the offer maximumbob Im sure you will have no shortage of takers on that one if you are successful in the breeding stakes.
Thanks everyone