Head-n-Tail Light Tetras?

[Ulan]

My H&Ts will chase each other around, but I've never seen any actual damage done, no actual nipping, more like bumping and "Let's swim real fast through these plants -- tag, you're it!" and "I'll get you for that!" but then in a few seconds the chaser forgets why he/she was chasing. I do have a plump female black neon who claims half the 6G tank and chases others away (they keep returning) -- until yesterday, when my smaller male BN turned the tables and was chasing her everywhere. Ah, sex! But I find H&Ts to be easy going.

Those flame tetras were dividing the tank into territories. They only worked with lots of plants, otherwise the weakest were harrassed to death in some corner. They also attacked guppies and the ram. The glowlights didn't have a chance against the last flame tetra, who claimed more than half of the tank for himself.

I just say this as a word of caution. "Peaceful community fish" sometimes just means "doesn't kill tankmates outright".

 

[G_Knicks]

Well what tetras work good?

 

[enrique4jc]

I housed Headlight/Tailight Tetras together with neons and guppies for a long time. They did fine together. The HLTL's did not show any aggression toward anything else in the tank. If you want neons, I'd say go for it!

 

[Sammie7]

Perhaps you can go on this site and look up different types of tetras and then come back with the ones you like and ask if they are compatible: http://www.aquahobby.com/e_gallery.php

Tetras are under the group "Characin" 4th down.

 

[Ulan]

Perhaps you can go on this site and look up different types of tetras and then come back with the ones you like and ask if they are compatible.

Well, he already said he wanted to have rummynoses and lemon tetras.

But as we are talking about this at the moment, here is a question: How reliable are these "will only color up in soft water" statements. I read those everywhere, and that's why I repeated that "piece of wisdom" in one of my prior posts. But I also read that glowlight tetras will only get their silvery white fin tips in soft water, and I know this to be wrong. Mine have great color and white fin tips in hard water.

 

[ct-death]

All fish are fairly good at adjusting to their environment, but most require specific parameters to sucessfully breed for example. Anything beyond their nature tolerance (which they have evolved to over 100k years+) will cause some distress (albiet slightly), and may have an effect on such things as coloration, longevity, size, behavior, etc.

^^ From my biology education...

To answer you question Ulan - I have no clue!: