Neon Tetras...

[tamara]

can you have say 2 neon tetras with like..2 others and 2 others of another breed?
or does it have to b e like 6 neon tetras???
(if they're all around the same sizze...)

 

[tamara]

help..?

 

[dwarfgourami]

They will usually feel safer if surroudnded by others like them, so it is better to keep a school of the same species. It's a "don't eat me eat my mate" attitude; as long as they are in a school, they feel safer from predators.

 

[Spinal]

As dwarfgourami said, different species wont school. Neons like neons, cardinals like cardinals, etc...
Michele

 

[johnatkin]

You may be able to keep black neon tetras with the normal neon tetras but I'm not sure

 

[insanityseeker]

neons and black neons arent related though... are they?

 

[eschaton]

My experience actually is that neons and glowlights will all school together.

 

[Tsi_User]

My experience actually is that neons and glowlights will all school together.

and from our experience our 3 cardinals and 3 neons school with each other all the time. And half the time our glowlights school with them also.

 

[iroc]

I have black skrit tetras, black neons, and blue neons and they all school together as one big pack, I donno if thats common but I have 5 blues, 6 black neons and 6 black skrits so they all COULD school by themsleves if they wanted to.........