Black Skirt Tetra
Black Skirt Tetra
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We do not take backorders on live fish, invertebrates or plants. Livestock arrives on the shipping schedule our suppliers and the weather allow, so we will not promise a date we cannot keep.
What is in the tanks changes from week to week. Ask us and we will tell you what is in and what is coming, or check back shortly. Visit us or get in touch.
Free local pickup at our Lethbridge store. Livestock guarantee
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The black skirt tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi), also sold as the black widow or black tetra, is one of the oldest community fish in the hobby. The body is a deep, flattened diamond, silver at the front and shading to charcoal at the back, crossed by two vertical black bars behind the gill. The broad, trailing anal fin is the skirt of the name. The black fades noticeably with age, so an old fish is a good deal paler than the one you bought.
Aquarium care
- Reaches roughly 5 to 6 cm.
- Hardy and forgiving of ordinary tap water.
- Keep six or more.
- Omnivorous: flake, pellets, frozen bloodworm and brine shrimp.
- Active mid-water swimmer that wants open room.
Be honest with yourself about the fin nipping. Black skirts kept in twos and threes will harass long-finned tankmates, and even in a proper group they are best kept away from bettas, angelfish and fancy guppies. With barbs, danios, rainbowfish and corydoras they are an easy, long-lived and undemanding fish. Avoid dyed or artificially coloured specimens sold elsewhere.
Stock rotates with each shipment, and livestock is sold for local pickup at our Lethbridge store. See what else is in on our tetras page.
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