Tetras

[Barracuda518]

I have 7 Zebra Danios and some cories...Do all tetras co-exist well with them? especially Serpae Tetras and Black Skirt Tetras?

Thanks

 

[xxSarahxx]

I don't see a problem you might find the below helpful;

Serpae
http/badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile75.html

Black Skirt
http/badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile40.html

They should help. Let me know if there is anything else I can do and let us know what you decide!

xxxxxx

 

[jollysue]

Teras can be nippy. They have teeth in the front of their mouths. They are a pirhana breed.

I have found, and they do have a reputation, serpae to be very nippy and to do damage when the mood takes them. I had to remove my serpae from the main community tank. When mine got crowded they got aggressive. They took the eye out of one of their own. All the serpae were bruised and battered with their pretty fins ragged, torn and chomped off.

Some of the black phantoms joined the fray. All the tetra had their tail fins nipped, even some diamond head neons. Fish that stayed out of the way were ok, but it was not peaceful and no one was safe. The schoolers stayed together and the others stayed inside.

I took the serpae out and will either make a small tank with them or return the ones who recover well.

The main factor was that they seem competetive and like their space. They seem to be more aggressive when they are crowded, they are expecting food, and there are a shoal of them. I have two still in the big community tank. Those two aren't a problem any more. Tetras are a nippy fish. The larger ones can do damage. I even see the diamond heads nip, but they are too small to do much damage.

Ilike most of my tetras, but they nip and the larger ones can do damage. And some of them get very cranky.

 

[Barracuda518]

ok thanks for the info...I dont want any nipping fish...

What about Rainbows?

 

[jollysue]

Well, don't really know the rainbows.

The neon varieties of the tetras are all nice. My personal favorites are the diamond heads and the green neons. They have appeared to be good tank mates. I think they are too busy covering their own bu__s to bother any one. But the neon lights in a good size shoal are very visable and attractive, imo. I have 20 diamond heads. I am just quarantining 12 to add to my exsisting shoal of eight.

My next shoaling fish will be I think harlequin rasaboras. I understand that the rasaboras are good. My lfs has some in quarantine reserved, so to speak, for me.

I am now beginning to add the dwarf and pygmy cichlids and gourami: a cockatoo colony is established. I am adding some honeys and sparklers for variety and upper level swimmers.

GBWY