Question about green neon tetra

**Hanako** · 8th Jun 2007, 10:39

Hi, long time have not posted here.

I just bought some green neon tetra (paracheirodon simulans) and green eye rasbora (rasbora dorsiocellata) from WuHu on Monday.

I think the rasboras (beautiful fish by the way) have settled in ok in my 2 feet tank. I found that they like to swim near the surface of the water so now I have top swimming fish.

But the green neon tetras tend to hide a lot behind plants. I got about 10 of these tetras. They don't seem to like swimming out in the open. Is it normal behaviour while they are settling down in a new tank? Their stripes have changed to a blue color in my tank rather than the more greenish tinge when they were in Ben's tank.

**hwchoy** · 8th Jun 2007, 10:47

P. simulans does best in a fair sized group (12 and upwards) in heavily planted/shaded tank. Their best colours is when illuminated by light filtered through the vegetation, which allows their stripe to gleam in the relative darkness. As usual for tetra, colours vary depending on lighting angles. Neon stripes would vary between blue to green.

**valice** · 8th Jun 2007, 10:57

They are very shy fishes.
Mine hides the moment I walk near to the tank. And my tank is a forest of crypts and nana and moss. But once I walk away, they starts to swim out.

So your observation is normal.

**hwchoy** · 8th Jun 2007, 10:58

Gan used to have a display tank with hundreds of these guys, spectacular.

**Hanako** · 8th Jun 2007, 17:49

Thanks.

Yes, they are very beautiful fish. Shame that they are so shy.

My tank is heavily planted, and they do hide away whenever I walk up towards the tank.

Are they bottom feeders?

**hwchoy** · 8th Jun 2007, 17:53

Hi Tin Tin, didn't realise it was your fish!

Give them a couple more weeks to settle in. If they feed voraciously then they are fine. Those at Gan's will swim towards a waving hand even.

check with the Great Hall see if he still has ADP. would be a good treat for them and help settling in.

**Hanako** · 8th Jun 2007, 18:04

Hi Hi *wave*.

Yeah, I will give them some time to settle down. What is ADP???

**hwchoy** · 8th Jun 2007, 18:05

Azmi's Daphnia Powder

**valice** · 8th Jun 2007, 18:09

Back in stock!?
Cheong ar!!!!!

**hwchoy** · 8th Jun 2007, 18:20

hanako, see people how kancheong, I never intro salah one. heehee.

Eh vince, if he has make sure beep me!

**Quixotic** · 9th Jun 2007, 12:37

My experience with them is that, they seem to be notoriously slow growers. I still have some specimens in my tank that I got at around 1.5 to 2 cm SL, damn small size, about 2.5 years ago and they have stayed the same since.

**hwchoy** · 9th Jun 2007, 12:52

I don't know, they have always been much smaller than the cardinal and neons.

**valice** · 9th Jun 2007, 17:03

It is their smaller size that makes the fish more enduring to me.
Especially when you have a 2ft tank and starts out with say 15 pieces they stay nice and good in size.

**Hanako** · 11th Jun 2007, 09:58

Great to know that they are slow growers and don't grow very large. My tank is also only 2 feet so I found fauna like Harlequin rasbora grows large very quickly and looks odd in smaller tanks.

Hmmm...wish can get my hands on those ADP to try out then. But the shop is always closed when I found the time to go there.

**hwchoy** · 11th Jun 2007, 12:11

Since it is now with Sera Centre they should be open during "normal" hours. except that Azmi may not be there, but someone should be there to take care of customers. You can always call or beep him.

**chubbchubb** · 25th Jun 2007, 23:20

Do you have a picture of green neon tetra? I am pretty interested to add colour to my tank using schooling fish

**ryzcris** · 26th Jun 2007, 02:02

I got a small school of 9 greens recently... still very shy...
probably need more time to condition to the tank and some really enticing food to lure them out of the vegetation.

Oh they love cyclops...