Love these guys

[CassCats]

Bright, but i find them sorta snippy with each other. Possibly just hangry little things.

Theyre also terrible beggars, come to the front of the tank to see if i have food for them.

 

[JuiceBox52]

I love neons. Unfortunately most of mine developed some new disease that people have been reporting. Deanasue had it as well. It's a hard growth on their lips, kinda looks like a mustache. When they stopped being able to eat I had to euthanize them

 

[howard_hopkinson]

I too like neons, but due to their problems I prefer cardinals which seem a lot hardier.

 

[JuiceBox52]

I too like neons, but due to their problems I prefer cardinals which seem a lot hardier.

And to think that 5 years ago the thought was that cardinals were expert only and you should get neons instead

 

[CassCats]

Ive had them for some time now without issues. Ive heard of a lot of the issues with them, but ive not lost a single one and theyve all been quite sturdy. I got 10 total.

 

[utahfish]

Bright, but i find them sorta snippy with each other. Possibly just hangry little things.

Theyre also terrible beggars, come to the front of the tank to see if i have food for them.

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Putting another shoal of like tetra species with them if room allows decreases aggression and nippyness as the other tetras species signals to them the lack of predators to like species and helps them feel safe and they will loosely shoal with other tetra species.
Ive had glo lights tetra, rummy nose, black neons ,neons, flame tetras all shoal together in one tank. good looking neons!

 

[Retired Viking]

I have glow light, ember and red eyed tetras in with my neons but I have lost several neons and a couple of embers, I also had the growth on the mouth. It has been awhile since I lost any fish. My glow lights did not loose any since I bought them. I have 13 of them. I have been holding off on replacing my neons because of the health problems I have heard of.

 

[emeraldking]

To me these neons do always look great in almost every tank... Same goes for the cardinal tetra...

 

[CassCats]

Putting another shoal of like tetra species with them if room allows decreases aggression and nippyness as the other tetras species signals to them the lack of predators to like species and helps them feel safe and they will loosely shoal with other tetra species.
Ive had glo lights tetra, rummy nose, black neons ,neons, flame tetras all shoal together in one tank. good looking neons!

I got them in with black neons. Who are perfect happy citizens.

I think i just have a male heavy group of neons. Got a 50/50 ratio of males and females and its the males always bickering with one another.

 

[utahfish]

I got them in with black neons. Who are perfect happy citizens.

I think i just have a male heavy group of neons. Got a 50/50 ratio of males and females and its the males always bickering with one another.

Cool i like black neons as well. Yup sounds like you have a heavy male shoal lol. Those silly males always fighting over the ladies