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"Unsung hero" couldn't have said it better. These are often overlooked because they're cheap. They're beautiful! I love them and while everyone is passing on them, I scoop them up on the cheap :)
Yes...Thank You so much for spotlighting this awesome tetra. After 2yrs of struggling to keep cardinals alive and well, I switched over to these little gems and couldn't be happier. I originally put 20 in my 55, and they dazzle my housemates and guests; they are so interesting when they dart to the surface for flakes. EXCELLENT AND VIBRANT COMMUNITY FISH!
One of my favorite tetras! So easy to keep and gorgeous in a planted tank. They will also gang with other tetras ( I have one that thinks he is a cardinal tetra).
Love the videos Corey! I've subscribed to the channel and watched a few of your fish room videos and love how much information you give! Thanks for helping my girlfriend and I get our tanks back on the right track. Everyone seems to be doing fine and my koi angel is growing a little bit each day! See ya soon!
I had 7...now I have one. Hardy my foot! I put them in with my duaghters Betta to add some activity...but they died off. I put the last one in with my female green sev and he is surprisingly doing well. I will buy 10 more and try again🤷🏾♂️. Good video. I love the background on that tank.👍🏾
Any chance the fish were overfed and led to high Ammonia in the tank? I know I have to monitor my daughter's tank or she'd feed her Betta every hour. He's very successful at begging.
I have a 40 breeder. I already have 10 neons in there (its stocking is minimal right now). I want to add 10 rummy nose tetras and 10 black neon tetras, kind of have three different schooling actions going on. I think it'll look really cool. With German blue rams, cories, and a couple plecos.
Love your videos brother. I wanted to ask you if you could do a video about different ways of raising fry. Preferably an easier approach or way of keeping fry alive or at least giving the fry a better chance of survival in an adult aquarium. i.e. Raising fry within your community or species tank without having to remove them. Thanks
I was watching your video¬iced it looked like you had African Debuawi catfish aka Eutropiellus Buffet;I've been trying to find these catfish with no luck for my 30 gallon long hillstream biotype Aquarium&was wondering how I could obtain a school of them for my Aquarium.
I think my female black neon tetra is killing all of her tank mates. Not sure what to do. Parameters are good. 5 gallon tank... Had 5 bnt... Now down to 2
Question for you, I have black skirt tetras and black neon tetras. Currently give them API tropical flakes. But I recently added electric yellow cichlid and they’re doing awesome. The cichlids are still small and do not bother anyone. But didn’t realize there’s a specific food for cichlids. I came across api tropical green leaf flakes. If I switch to this, would this cause problems with my tetras? I really don’t want to remove them. Any help is greatly appreciated!
i have had black neons and neons for a while in a small tank recantly introduced 6 black widows a small yoyo loach and am assassin snail had to because of the hitch hiking bladder snails on plants i placed in my tank and the yoyo and assassin snail lile hudini they dissapear for hours on end then bam they are in plain sight
can you mix all different kinds of neon tetras all together? Like black neons, green, true neon, diamond head, albino, cardinal (red neon), gold and long fin neon tetras? say a school of 10 of each sub specie on a 110 gal pond or aquarium?
I have a male with a bunch of them. He chases them a tiny bit when I'm feeding them, but other than that everyone has been getting along great. No agression from the betta and no fin nipping from the tetras.
Started out with 10 in quarantine. Losing about 1 every 48 hours or less. Quarantine tank is cycled with used filter media from an established tank and am using an airstone. I don't have the trifecta medicine as I was gonna just observe them for a month or more. It's been 10 days and I have 4 left with 1 albino Cory that's doing fine. I don't suspect the black neons will survive the week. Parameters are 0ppm ammonia/nitrite/nitrate pH 7.8 approximately. Heated to 80F. When I had 10 I did notice 1 or 2 develop Popeye. Dosed with seachem metroplex and kanaplex and now down to 4. I've been watching them break away from the school 1 by 1 and then just die randomly. Are black neons susceptible to neon Tetra disease? I don't know why I loose fish more in quarantine than just acclimating and then adding straight to my main tank.
Awesome vid brother. I have a 45gal tall, I have 10 Rummynose and was looking to mix these guys in with them. Whats the most I can have total without being overstocked?
David Freshley how tall if it's tall you should get a long tank I'd only get 8 maximum if it's tall it's basically like knocking 20m gallons of the tank size
Hey Cory! I have 8 of these tetras and i went and bought some micro pellets for them to eat that are quite slow sinking but they seem to not eat them. They just take them in and spit them out. Is it because they don't like them or because they just aren't hungry? They do spend most of the day in the current so i guess that they would be hungry yet i rarely see them actually swallowing the food.
Guy at the pet store sold me 2 for my small tank I told him I don’t want schooling fish for that reason lol but nope I get up look up one video and great I hope they become friends and swim around or I’m thinking about taking them back cause I feel bad
So I have a snail and a betta. I’ve gotten a black neon tetra. Do I need more tetras? And if so, can they live with 2. I have a 10 gal rn and am working up to a 50 gal.
Could you do a video on wild caught fish? For some reason so many people (especially those that keep African Cichlids) want wild ones. In my opinion line breeding has produced a better looking fish in many cases. I know people that import fish and the cost associated with it. I recently was trying to explain to a guy that buying a 14 inch Wild Frontosa for $ 50.00 maybe isn't the smartest thing to do. First it seems cheap, second do we really need to keep taking fish out of the eco system when that same fish is being commercially raised? Another thought is the depths that some fish come from and how it would adjust in our tanks? Any thoughts?
Lots of thoughts on it really. I'd say most people don't look at it from all sides. They look at it from their opinion. For instance frontosas take 5 days to raise from the bottom of the lake. Might be hard to adjust. But also realize that someone has a job doing that. When we take that job away, often times it is replaced with worse things. Look at the Amazon river. Take away ornamental fishing and the people turn to burning down the forest and growing palm oil. This in turn has done much more destruction than the catching of the fish. Maybe I"ll do a video on it as I've got lots of other points as well.
+Aquarium Co-Op Thanks. It is funny you mentioned palm oil.. Ted Judy just spoke about this issues last Friday at my local club 's meeting. I am sure the list of both pros and cons are long.
would these be ok in a 29 gallon that has 8 harleyquinn rasboras, 6 sterba corycats and 1 koi angel and 1 gbr my ph is around 6.8 and temp is 81 - 82 i was thinking of picking up 8 of them as theyre very cheap
I only have three black neon tetras in my ten gallon, but I already have two otto-cats and three zebra danios. They seam to like to swim around with the danios just fine.
I know this is an old video but from my experience with these tetras, I hate them. It might just be bc of where I get them from, or maybe bc I only have 3 in my 29 gallon but they seem sick or boring. All they do is sit about 2 inches away from the the top of the tank facing my air stone. They spread out every once in a while and swim around but when I try to look at them through the glass they swim to the opposite side of wear I’m looking at and then just go back to sitting two inches away from the surface. My other fish don’t behave like this and my water parameters are healthy range. Idk what their deal is
+Tropical Fish well it would depend on skill and water parameters. I can keep 300 in 20 gallons with 4 auto water changes a day. A conservative approach would be 1 inch per gallon. Which would be 10 black neons. You might find you handle 20 or 30 with the work load you want on that tank. If you incrase the numbers slowly you can stop when rhe maintenance is where you enjoy it.
Alicia Luoma question I have a tank with tetras and a betta I watched it for weeks and hours upon hours when I had time and I saw a neon nip once about two days... nothing since then what should I do??
Definitely not that hardy. Still prone to disease like their neon cousins. Lost a couple of them within the first week. The remainder had an ick outbreak. Nothing different than the regular neon tetras. Harlequin rasboras are still pound for pound the hardiest fish in the hobby. Never had any issues with them. Haven't lost a single one and never had ick.
Aquarium Co-Op wish I had done this sooner! I got a group of about 17, sadly the store didn't have more. They school quite nicely and the silver tip tertas already in the aquarium are far more active now as well, they often tag along with the school. The pearl gouramis I had in there are a lot more active and curious as well and no longer jolt about the tank when I approach it. Never expected such a result.
I have a 10 gal tall tank I have 7 black tetra fish and 2 cory. I have a great filter and pre-filter water change 50% a week do you think I can keep 7 more in this tank?
I can second that, In the shop they looked great, I got 4 as some of my first at fish 4 for £5 or £2 each, and honestly I wish I had either got more or none, they're a plain and boring fish in low numbers!
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These were the first tetras that I started my first tank for my daughter. Great fish, had them now about 4 and a half years now.
Super hardy, a great starter fish :)
The trick to selling schooling fish "You're going to need at least 100 for a good school"
"Unsung hero" couldn't have said it better. These are often overlooked because they're cheap. They're beautiful! I love them and while everyone is passing on them, I scoop them up on the cheap :)
Yes...Thank You so much for spotlighting this awesome tetra. After 2yrs of struggling to keep cardinals alive and well, I switched over to these little gems and couldn't be happier. I originally put 20 in my 55, and they dazzle my housemates and guests; they are so interesting when they dart to the surface for flakes.
EXCELLENT AND VIBRANT COMMUNITY FISH!
+wyzemann Yeah they are super hardy and fun to feed.
One of my favorite tetras! So easy to keep and gorgeous in a planted tank. They will also gang with other tetras ( I have one that thinks he is a cardinal tetra).
aw!
yellow background is beautiful.
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I love these. Just put them in a planted 30 gallon with my Celestial Danios and they couldn't pair up better!
Great vid and information!
Love the videos Corey! I've subscribed to the channel and watched a few of your fish room videos and love how much information you give! Thanks for helping my girlfriend and I get our tanks back on the right track. Everyone seems to be doing fine and my koi angel is growing a little bit each day! See ya soon!
+andy pegg Glad to hear it :)
Lovely fish👍🐟
AKA the mini freshwater tuna
i freaky love black neon tetras
I had 7...now I have one. Hardy my foot! I put them in with my duaghters Betta to add some activity...but they died off. I put the last one in with my female green sev and he is surprisingly doing well. I will buy 10 more and try again🤷🏾♂️. Good video. I love the background on that tank.👍🏾
How did they pass? The Betta could have aten some,I had 10 in a 29 gallon tank with a male crowntail and he ate all of them
Any chance the fish were overfed and led to high Ammonia in the tank? I know I have to monitor my daughter's tank or she'd feed her Betta every hour. He's very successful at begging.
I have a 40 breeder. I already have 10 neons in there (its stocking is minimal right now). I want to add 10 rummy nose tetras and 10 black neon tetras, kind of have three different schooling actions going on. I think it'll look really cool. With German blue rams, cories, and a couple plecos.
I have 40 in my 25 tank
3 albino ( had 10 but they 7 died)
27 normal blue and red
And 10 black ones. And there doing amazing.
Love them
I just got 4 of these fish that are in with my Betta. So far so good. They’re fast! And always hungry 😂 guess I need to get a few more...
Love your videos brother. I wanted to ask you if you could do a video about different ways of raising fry. Preferably an easier approach or way of keeping fry alive or at least giving the fry a better chance of survival in an adult aquarium. i.e. Raising fry within your community or species tank without having to remove them. Thanks
I'd say check out my red russian guppy video as that method works for most types of fish.
Congratulations on over 10000 subscribers.
Thank you :)
He's at 188K now ,,,, 8/6/2018
I was watching your video¬iced it looked like you had African Debuawi catfish aka Eutropiellus Buffet;I've been trying to find these catfish with no luck for my 30 gallon long hillstream biotype Aquarium&was wondering how I could obtain a school of them for my Aquarium.
are glowlight tetras hardy as well?
+Jaren Kayu yes, glowlight tetras are super hardy as well. You would do well with them.
have 6 neon tetras atm gonna add 4 black neons for a decent small group
Good work!
Beautiful!
I think my female black neon tetra is killing all of her tank mates. Not sure what to do. Parameters are good. 5 gallon tank... Had 5 bnt... Now down to 2
Best bet is probably get it into a bigger tank. 5 gallon is too small for those tetras.
Great video!
Question for you, I have black skirt tetras and black neon tetras. Currently give them API tropical flakes. But I recently added electric yellow cichlid and they’re doing awesome. The cichlids are still small and do not bother anyone. But didn’t realize there’s a specific food for cichlids.
I came across api tropical green leaf flakes. If I switch to this, would this cause problems with my tetras? I really don’t want to remove them. Any help is greatly appreciated!
i have had black neons and neons for a while in a small tank recantly introduced 6 black widows a small yoyo loach and am assassin snail had to because of the hitch hiking bladder snails on plants i placed in my tank and the yoyo and assassin snail lile hudini they dissapear for hours on end then bam they are in plain sight
can you mix all different kinds of neon tetras all together? Like black neons, green, true neon, diamond head, albino, cardinal (red neon), gold and long fin neon tetras? say a school of 10 of each sub specie on a 110 gal pond or aquarium?
I was thinking of doing these with bosemani rainbows thoughts???
Hi, can I keep black neon tetras with Betta & 10 Dwarf gouramis in a 100 gallon planted tank?? I am thinking of about 48-50 of them. Please suggest.
The fish are nice, but dang those racks are rad! Ever have any issues from omitting the crossbeams? Looks real clean the way they are set up now.
Nope, they have been sturdy as a rock.
oh could these do well with dwarf neon rainbows?
Can you keep them with a betta? I heard you can keep bettas with neons.
Depends on the tank size, temperament of the betta etc.
I have a female betta with 10 of them and she's cool with them
I have a male with a bunch of them. He chases them a tiny bit when I'm feeding them, but other than that everyone has been getting along great. No agression from the betta and no fin nipping from the tetras.
I have a 34 litre tall and I have a half moon betta with neons and he's never touched them
Started out with 10 in quarantine. Losing about 1 every 48 hours or less. Quarantine tank is cycled with used filter media from an established tank and am using an airstone. I don't have the trifecta medicine as I was gonna just observe them for a month or more. It's been 10 days and I have 4 left with 1 albino Cory that's doing fine. I don't suspect the black neons will survive the week. Parameters are 0ppm ammonia/nitrite/nitrate pH 7.8 approximately. Heated to 80F. When I had 10 I did notice 1 or 2 develop Popeye. Dosed with seachem metroplex and kanaplex and now down to 4. I've been watching them break away from the school 1 by 1 and then just die randomly. Are black neons susceptible to neon Tetra disease? I don't know why I loose fish more in quarantine than just acclimating and then adding straight to my main tank.
Awesome vid brother. I have a 45gal tall, I have 10 Rummynose and was looking to mix these guys in with them. Whats the most I can have total without being overstocked?
David Freshley how tall if it's tall you should get a long tank I'd only get 8 maximum if it's tall it's basically like knocking 20m gallons of the tank size
Can I put them with a female Betta in a 30 gallon tank???
Even though it's a year later I'll answer. Yes it should be fine unless your betta is real mean lol. But 30 is a lot of room so it should be fine
Hey Cory! I have 8 of these tetras and i went and bought some micro pellets for them to eat that are quite slow sinking but they seem to not eat them. They just take them in and spit them out. Is it because they don't like them or because they just aren't hungry? They do spend most of the day in the current so i guess that they would be hungry yet i rarely see them actually swallowing the food.
how many are in that aquarium? oh and how big is that aquarium?
Guy at the pet store sold me 2 for my small tank I told him I don’t want schooling fish for that reason lol but nope I get up look up one video and great I hope they become friends and swim around or I’m thinking about taking them back cause I feel bad
So I have a snail and a betta. I’ve gotten a black neon tetra. Do I need more tetras? And if so, can they live with 2. I have a 10 gal rn and am working up to a 50 gal.
Can they be tank mates with shrimp?
How many in a 15 gallon?
Can I keep 2 for a week and later add more
Could you do a video on wild caught fish? For some reason so many people (especially those that keep African Cichlids) want wild ones. In my opinion line breeding has produced a better looking fish in many cases. I know people that import fish and the cost associated with it. I recently was trying to explain to a guy that buying a 14 inch Wild Frontosa for $ 50.00 maybe isn't the smartest thing to do. First it seems cheap, second do we really need to keep taking fish out of the eco system when that same fish is being commercially raised? Another thought is the depths that some fish come from and how it would adjust in our tanks? Any thoughts?
Lots of thoughts on it really. I'd say most people don't look at it from all sides. They look at it from their opinion. For instance frontosas take 5 days to raise from the bottom of the lake. Might be hard to adjust. But also realize that someone has a job doing that. When we take that job away, often times it is replaced with worse things. Look at the Amazon river. Take away ornamental fishing and the people turn to burning down the forest and growing palm oil. This in turn has done much more destruction than the catching of the fish. Maybe I"ll do a video on it as I've got lots of other points as well.
+Aquarium Co-Op Thanks. It is funny you mentioned palm oil.. Ted Judy just spoke about this issues last Friday at my local club 's meeting. I am sure the list of both pros and cons are long.
Are they very diferent from regular neons? how easy is it to breed them?
+b.a. Warman Easier to breed, I've had some customers accidentally breed them and make a few more. But they get much larger than a neon in my opinion.
Will these survive in coldwater
would these be ok in a 29 gallon that has 8 harleyquinn rasboras, 6 sterba corycats and 1 koi angel and 1 gbr my ph is around 6.8 and temp is 81 - 82 i was thinking of picking up 8 of them as theyre very cheap
Yeah so long as you keep up on water changes, they should get along with that mix of fish.
+Aquarium Co-Op awesome thank you for the reply i was thinking maybe 8 or 10 i never buy 6 same with harleys got 8 keep up the good vids co op 👍
i pike these fish but i wont keep them they keep dieing on me but the rest of my fish are fine so i think its just my local supply isnt healthy
How do you breed these guys?
Do we need a filter in a 15 -20 gallon tank? We don't need a heater bcuz my country is real hot
I'd recommend an airstone at the minimum honestly. If you're well versed in the aquatic hobby you can do it without a filter as well.
If you use live plants it's so much better!
Hi. I was going to get 6 neon tetras and 2 Dwarf gourami. What food would you recommend for them and how much of it should I put in per day. Thanks
Got any tips on breeding neons
+TheSharkStop My tip would to be breed something else as they are only worth doing on a massive scale.
ok got it!
How many black neon tetras can I school in a 10 gallon tank?
I only have three black neon tetras in my ten gallon, but I already have two otto-cats and three zebra danios. They seam to like to swim around with the danios just fine.
6
What's the size of that tank Sir?
What are black neon tetras? Substitutions for when your LFS is out of stock of Pygmy Corys!!
i ♡ me black neozzzz!!! :P
I know this is an old video but from my experience with these tetras, I hate them. It might just be bc of where I get them from, or maybe bc I only have 3 in my 29 gallon but they seem sick or boring. All they do is sit about 2 inches away from the the top of the tank facing my air stone. They spread out every once in a while and swim around but when I try to look at them through the glass they swim to the opposite side of wear I’m looking at and then just go back to sitting two inches away from the surface. My other fish don’t behave like this and my water parameters are healthy range. Idk what their deal is
Maybe because their not enough...their schooling fish and a school of fish is ideally 6 and more
Can you do a guide on Emperor Tetra
+That FishGuy I can try next time I have them in stock. I don't carry them too often. Usually just wild caught ones.
+Aquarium Co-Op Thanks! I've been looking into getting some.
How many black neon tetras can I fir in a 20g?
+Tropical Fish well it would depend on skill and water parameters. I can keep 300 in 20 gallons with 4 auto water changes a day. A conservative approach would be 1 inch per gallon. Which would be 10 black neons. You might find you handle 20 or 30 with the work load you want on that tank. If you incrase the numbers slowly you can stop when rhe maintenance is where you enjoy it.
Will they eat shrimp eggs
Will they mess with neons? I pm thinking about them and im afraid they might mess with my neons
They could, but it is unlikely, what size tank etc?
+Aquarium Co-Op its a 55 gallon
+Aquarium Co-Op its a 55 gallon tank
Should work out well assuming proper numbers and no one fish goes rogue :P
I've all ways have wanted to breed black neons.
+Dominic and cats Not too difficult. Customers do it in their planted tanks on accident. They don't get huge spawns but babies show up.
Aquarium Co-Op Cool, ill try to find some after the fry I currently have are sold. I tryed to breed normsl neons but my Dad got me loaches.
Can black neon tetra go with bettas???
Yup. Just make sure the betta's fins aren't too long because tetra's can be fin nippers. I have a female betta in with mine. :)
Alicia Luoma question I have a tank with tetras and a betta I watched it for weeks and hours upon hours when I had time and I saw a neon nip once about two days... nothing since then what should I do??
Definitely not that hardy. Still prone to disease like their neon cousins. Lost a couple of them within the first week. The remainder had an ick outbreak. Nothing different than the regular neon tetras. Harlequin rasboras are still pound for pound the hardiest fish in the hobby. Never had any issues with them. Haven't lost a single one and never had ick.
I've been debating to get a group of these for my 260Liter (68 gallon?) aquarium. Would a group of 20 be decent?
Yeah, I think that would work out just fine. They are a really robust fish.
Hopefully they'll school nicely then!
Aquarium Co-Op wish I had done this sooner! I got a group of about 17, sadly the store didn't have more. They school quite nicely and the silver tip tertas already in the aquarium are far more active now as well, they often tag along with the school. The pearl gouramis I had in there are a lot more active and curious as well and no longer jolt about the tank when I approach it. Never expected such a result.
I have a 10 gal tall tank I have 7 black tetra fish and 2 cory. I have a great filter and pre-filter water change 50% a week do you think I can keep 7 more in this tank?
I have four sorry
I can second that, In the shop they looked great, I got 4 as some of my first at fish 4 for £5 or £2 each, and honestly I wish I had either got more or none, they're a plain and boring fish in low numbers!
Until you buy them from a petstore that doesnt treat their tabks and they are all diseased🙃
Awesome