Bottom Dwellers Serpae Tetras Will Be Perfect for Community Aquariums
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If you are going to set-up an aquarium accommodating tropical fish, you can certainly think of Serpae tetra fish as a fine addition. They are also called Blood Characins because of their color.
They are famous for their bright red color. Sometimes you can find them in reddish brown color. Another important feature is a black spot behind their gill. It is prominent when they are young but will reduce when they grow.
They originate from the Amazon River basin. They are famous for their shape which is sleek and compressed. They can grow up to 2.5 inches. You can easily distinguish between a male and a female from their shapes. The females are round in shape.
If you want to bring them for your aquarium, you should plant your aquarium very heavily. They love to live in an environment which is full of plants. Even though they can tolerate lower temperatures, they can be happy in a wide range of 65 to 85° F. They want to live in calm waters so you should not create any flows or currents in the aquarium.
You need not make any special efforts for their care and for their feeding. They can eat all sorts of food including flaked food, live food, frozen food or dried food. In the open nature, they usually feed on various types of insects and worms found in the water. Most of them will also try to taste available plants. As they are not big in size, even if you provide them with quality food, your food budget will not get extraordinary.
They can live peacefully with almost all other species but you should avoid neon tetras with them. Serpae tetras will not be able to cope up with them.
Serpae tetra fish will always swim in the middle of the aquarium or sometimes at the bottom so they will not bother fish the other species in the tank. However, they will play with each other for the whole of the day.
The breeding of Serpae tetra fish is very easy. If you shift and a pair of male and a female in a small separate tank with many plants, they will lay small eggs which are transparent. They like to lay eggs on the leaves of the plants, so you should set-up some plants with big leaves in the breeding tank. In this small tank, you should put dark substrate and that tank should be kept away from direct sunshine. The eggs will hatch in about one day and the young ones will start eating from day one. Baby brine shrimps can be an ideal food for them. You can also feed them with powdered flaked food. They will grow very fast if you feed them with live food.
You should always keep them in a group of at least five. They are schooling fish but they can become aggressive at the time when you feed them. At that time, they will try to compete with each other and in the process they may hurt the fins of their friends. If you want to keep them with other species, you must see that all the fish in the aquarium are of the same size. If you introduce species with different sizes in one tank, there will always be in-fighting.
I will recommend Serpae tetra fish in a community aquarium because of their bright red color which is extra-ordinary and their habit of staying in the middle or at the bottom of the aquarium.
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Source by Chintamani Abhyankar