Tetras! Anyone ?

[mscichlid]

Anyone here keep tetras and can appreciate their beauty and usefulness? Besides as feeders-please! Been there , done that with blue tetras!

What is your favorite tetra?

Mine are cardinals, crenuchus spililurus, poeciliocharax weitzmani, flameback bleeding hearts and emperors.

Francine

 

[Cartel]

I have regular neon tetras in my planted tank. Id loooove to have cardinals just didnt want to swing the cash at the time. I think neon/cardinal tetras look great in a planted tank.

 

[rsretep]

i have a school of 14 rummynose tetras in a planted forty breeder love em

 

[cmcpart0422]

Golden tetras. They add natural beauty to any tank, and great dithers.

 

[Andrew]

I love huge schools of tetras. My favorite is bloodfins for how they school tightly, more than rummynose, in my estimation. I love Congo tetras too, well, almost all of the African tetras are amazing. Vicious b*st*rds, too.

But, there are some other characoids that I really enjoy too... Like Leporinus, Anostomus, Chalceus, and Distichodus. Not schooling fish necessarily, but a shoal of these in the right size tank is incredible. After seeing the scene in the Discovery Planet Earth series, a school of redtail brycon would be stunning in a huge tank.

Speaking of, if you haven't seen the "freshwater" part of this mini-series, make it happen. You won't regret it.

 

[iamzrad]

I have a school of 9 tetra's in my community tank (45gal).
3 Red and Blue Colombian
3 Bleeding heart
3 Diamond

These guys are fun to watch as different types bunch up together. I'm normally not a Tetra-fan, but I needed something to fill up the middle and top half of the tank, since the apisto's chill at the bottom and the ram's can't make up their minds.

I plan to add some more as my tank gets going and goes into full planted tank overdrive.

Def. a cool little fish to keep.

 

[Jumbie]

I have some Bleeding Hearts, Rummy Nose, and Cardinal tetras in a few of my plant tanks.

 

[Lively]

I just got 6 Serpae Tetras! I know next to nothing about them, except they are lovely. Guess I have some reading to do

 

[Frank Cowherd]

My favorite schooling fish are not tetras, though I like the look of a school of tetras or any schooling fish moving around the aquarium. I do not know why but white clouds are my favorite, maybe because it was the first fish that gave me fry. The second fish is zebra danios. Zebras are so fast that they even survive in with a lot of different types of cichlids as long as the tank is big enough. I have had zebras live with a jaguar fish for over a year, but he eventually got them all.

 

[lonlangione]

I like cardinals and serpae tetras. But my all time favorite is the pristella and it's cousin the rarely seen coffee bean or jelly bean tetra Hyphessobrycon takasei.

Lonny

 

[msjinkzd]

I have cardinals, neons, and diamond tetras. I really like them in my planted tanks. I have to agree on the white cloud thing though, I got those meteor minnows a couple meetings ago and am just loving them. I also really like rasboras and danios. I guess I just like fish!

 

[Andrewtfw]

My favorite tetra would have to be Congos. After that would be Serpae, Black Phantoms Columbian blues.

 

[dogofwar]

I have a couple of Buenos Aires Tetras. I'm a big fan of the pink-tailed chalceus, too (although I don't have any right now).

Next trip to Uruguay I'm going to save room to bring back some of the cool tetras that they have down there... If no one takes them, Felipe feeds them to the pikes!

 

[cmcpart0422]

I got 5 bloodfins the other day and andrew is right. They school so tight its fun to watch them swim together.

 

[George]

I have a couple of Buenos Aires Tetras. I'm a big fan of the pink-tailed chalceus, too (although I don't have any right now).

Next trip to Uruguay I'm going to save room to bring back some of the cool tetras that they have down there... If no one takes them, Felipe feeds them to the pikes!

Gee, that rings a bell. I have Buenos Aires Tetras from Andew at Scales. He told me they would do well outside in the warmer months. They not only did well but multiplied like guppies. I recommend them to anyone who wants to do outdoor stuff this spring. They are also pretty tough and make great dithers for cichlids. They are probably hardy and flexible enough for Africans.

I have a group of 6 chalceus that came home with me from Peru last year. I am hoping to find more this year. I would like to try them outside too but they seem to think they are flying fish and might need a cover. A decent cover defeats the purpose for putting them outside. I might just try a thick plant cover.

I have several other tetras from Peru that no one has really been able to identify for me.

 

[Lively]

I now know that serpae tetra's don't make good dither's for Jack Dempsey's - made a good snack. :angry3: I honestly thought they were big enough - found one chomped in half. No more playmates for Brutus...

 

[iamzrad]

I got 8 bloodfin Tetra's two weeks ago from Scales, these guys are cool, always swim together and when one separates, the group finds the loner. Awesome!

 

[dogofwar]

There was a cool green "bloodfin" that we found in Northern Uruguay.

John Patterson brought some back, I believe.

 

[tash]

I have some cardinals. I kinda like them, but recently I have been thinking of puting them in the auction and getting something that schools tighter. the bloodfins sound nice... we'll see....

I like zebra's too. I used to have a small school of them many years ago