Bleeding Heart Tetras! Who Has Em?!

[tangokitty]

I was looking in a fish book and saw Bleeding heart Tetras and decided I wanted to try some. Mostly I was looking for a differnet fish shape since I have cherry barbs and white clouds with the same basic body style. I put 6 in my 50 gallon and Now they are my favorite fish! They have beautiful colors that the pictures don't do justice to. Mine are silver with an orange sheen, Fuchsia heart spot black and yellow or black and orange dorsal fins and blue and red or white and red anal fins (some fish have the blue and red anal fins others have white and red same goes for the dorsal fin) and a slight orange mildline. They always school and just look awsome together. I think I'll add more when my other fish pass on.
It was really hard to find them and oddly enough no LFS had them but Petsmart! I'm glad that I found them and was wondering if anyone else has them and loves them like I do....Or hate them......

The picture doesn't do them any justice! The are eating some tubifex worms I smashed to the glass.

 

[shelaghfishface]

i have some in my community tank, when i bought them i bought them as tiger barbs( with a diffrent pattern lol) they have lived happily with them for ages now,and in my opinion i prefer them to tiger barbs.. ggod choice
shelagh xxx

 

[minxfishy]

Just recently put 5 in my 55g with my SA cichlids. Nippy little buggers IMO, have had a go at my geo's and now my silver dollars May have to up their numbers to see if that stops the nipping or re-home them. Probably re-home them!

 

[tangokitty]

I love mine, they never fin nip my other fish...They school and keep to them selves. I love the colors on them.

i have some in my community tank, when i bought them i bought them as tiger barbs( with a diffrent pattern lol) they have lived happily with them for ages now,and in my opinion i prefer them to tiger barbs.. ggod choice
shelagh xxx

Do yours have the beautiful colors as well? Glad you like yours. I would definatly have them over tigerbarbs!
Vanessa

 

[MermaidMel]

I used to have some, very robust indeed I actually took them all back to LFS and swapped for something else as I got bored, they just lived and lived and lived lol

 

[tangokitty]

I hope that mine live a long time! My red tailed shark is 7 years old!.

 

[tangokitty]

Do any of you have pictures of your Bleeding hearts to show me??
Here's a few more of mine.

 

[shelaghfishface]

i dont sorry, that tube in my tank has blown.........Mel.. what are u like lol