Green Neon Tetra
Green Neon 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.
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The green neon tetra (Paracheirodon simulans) is the smallest of the three Paracheirodon species and comes from the blackwater tributaries of the Rio Negro and Orinoco. It looks like a neon tetra that has been rinsed of most of its red: the blue-green stripe runs the full length of the body and is brighter and more turquoise than a neon's, while the red is reduced to a small smudge near the tail or absent altogether. In a large shoal the effect is a moving line of green light.
Aquarium care
- Reaches about 2.5 cm, smaller than a neon tetra.
- Peaceful and easily intimidated.
- Keep a large group, twelve or more, in a well-planted tank.
- Wants soft, acidic, warm blackwater conditions and is less forgiving than a neon.
- Mid-water swimmer.
- Needs small foods: crushed flake, micro pellets, frozen cyclops and baby brine shrimp.
Best in a dedicated blackwater or nano planted tank with pygmy corydoras, chili rasboras and other small, quiet fish. It is not a beginner's tetra and does poorly in a tank that has not fully matured.
Stock rotates with each shipment, and livestock is sold for local pickup at our Lethbridge store. See the current tetras.
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