A Small Bit Of Advice

[LouiseRat]

Our 6 month old king cobra guppy (he is called animal) was moved to a new tank about 2 months ago as we had soooooooooo many fry from his 3 ladies .

Yesterday we had to move him back to our main community tank as the neo tetras have BITTEN his anal fin off , i am furious with the tetras and to be honest will not be getting any more when these move on to fishy heaven

So a word of warning to anyone who has fancytailed guppys DO NOT put them with tetras.

 

[stang1]

I'm sorry you've had a problem with your tetras but I'm glad you brought it up.
I had the same problems with my neons chasing and having a go at my male fighter, but when I mentioned it on the forum a couple of people said that it was unlikely and someone even suggested that I must have been doing something wrong!
I understand your frustration but I moved my neons in with similar siazed fish eg. Harlequins, minnows, etc. and they've been fine.

 

[wei0204]

Dorry to hear that... But this is something new to me...

Thanks for sharing...

 

[FishySarah]

A friend offered me some guppies after her fish had babies. But I have neons, so now I'm not so sure. Maybe I'll wait until I get my other tank, which isn't going to have any tetras, just livebearers.

 

[sylvia]

Neons are actualy very well known as nippers - particularly amongst people who keep bettas (so I'm surprised with what you've said stang1 - I would have expected people to have said 'Well yes, obviously, they'd nip!' ).

What I'm posting to emphasize is that this is NOT the case with ALL tetras. Neons are only a single species amongst many, many others. There is no reason to generalise (which people seem to be doing). My personal favourite tetra species is the black phantom and they never nip anything but each other (unless they are in too small a group). Pristellas, rummynoses and emperors don't nip either IME (and there are many others that fit into this non-nippy category as well). On the other hand, things like black widows/skirts and buenos aires tetras are notorious nippers - much worse than neons - and shouldn't be kept with anything slow or long-finned.

 

[stang1]

Neons are actualy very well known as nippers - particularly amongst people who keep bettas (so I'm surprised with what you've said stang1 - I would have expected people to have said 'Well yes, obviously, they'd nip!' ).

It surprised me too Sylvia! When we brought the neons the lfs said they'd be fine with the Betta and they were wrong. It was only after doing a bit of research that we found out they were fin nippers. Fortunately we research before we buy now, we learnt the hard way.
I'm so glad people have mentioned this because I was made to feel as if it was my fault and that neons weren't capable of such a thing!

 

[LouiseRat]

animal is a fancytailed guppy (king cobra) and the only tetras we have are the neon tetras .

I felt i had to put this up as i dont want any other fancytailed gups to go through what little animal has .

The neons are fine with the female guppys , just not with the fancytails .