After gradually losing and moving the fish in our kitchen tank it is now re stocked. We have 18 golden tetra (these fish are only golden in the wild due to something that happens to them but I really like them.)
And yesterday Zarra picked a pair of electric blue rams because she has always wanted blue fish. They are lovely.
64l kitchen tank: 16 golden tetra.
5ft 425L: 3 blue angel fish, 30 rummie nose tetra, 20 black neon tetra, 1 longfin bristlenose plec, 2 corydoras sterbai, 24 corydoras duplicareas,2 SAE.
Nice Andy
I just had a read as I remember hearing/seeing something about the colour on some fish.
With these tetra in some areas they inhabit there’s a type of parasite that reacts with their skin to cause the gold colouring
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Gingerlove05 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 19:43 pm
Nice Andy
I just had a read as I remember hearing/seeing something about the colour on some fish.
With these tetra in some areas they inhabit there’s a type of parasite that reacts with their skin to cause the gold colouring
Thats the one Iain. Cheers.
64l kitchen tank: 16 golden tetra.
5ft 425L: 3 blue angel fish, 30 rummie nose tetra, 20 black neon tetra, 1 longfin bristlenose plec, 2 corydoras sterbai, 24 corydoras duplicareas,2 SAE.
Tank still looks lovely, and that ram is very vibrant For some reason your pictures won't enlarge for me, I get this issue sometimes, yet others in other posts will load fine, anyone know why??
425L SeaBray Elite aquarium - Rio Mamoré (Bolivia) theme
4 x Cupid Cichlids, 14 x Cory caudimaculatus, 12 x Cory sterbai 51 x Reed Tetra, 4 x Honeycomb Bristlenose (L519)
plankton wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:49 am
I have gold tetra with the pygmeus corys.
They do still have sparse gold dots, and beautiful blue edges to the fins.
They are a lovely little fish when they catch the light just right.
64l kitchen tank: 16 golden tetra.
5ft 425L: 3 blue angel fish, 30 rummie nose tetra, 20 black neon tetra, 1 longfin bristlenose plec, 2 corydoras sterbai, 24 corydoras duplicareas,2 SAE.
Yesterday I took the smaller electric blue ram out of the kitchen tank. I'm fairly certain we have 2 males and the small one was being bullied or in hiding.
I've put the smaller one in angels delight where we have 2 german blues that we think are both female. Will the 3 rams interact or will they keep to themselves?
64l kitchen tank: 16 golden tetra.
5ft 425L: 3 blue angel fish, 30 rummie nose tetra, 20 black neon tetra, 1 longfin bristlenose plec, 2 corydoras sterbai, 24 corydoras duplicareas,2 SAE.
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