The following caresheet was written for Creedy Aquatics, a former exotics collection in the

UK, after my time curating the collection there.

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Neon Tetra
Paracheirodon innesi

Size: Around 5cm maximum.

Care Level: Easy
Tank Type: Tropical
Diet: Tropical Fish Flake/Bloodworm
Compatability: Very peaceable fish, can live with pretty much any other aquatic creature,
providing that the other species poses no threat to them! They are a shoaling species
however, so need to be kept in groups of at least six individuals.
Tank Size: 30 litres minimum.
Temperature: 23 - 28 Degrees celcius
pH: 6 - 8

A very attractive and fascinating tropical fish that is exceedingly easy to care for, although
for this species to be truly happy in a UK environment, they must be kept in a heated tank.
A feeding of 1 pinch of flake to 6 individuals once daily should suffice as a balanced diet.
We use TetraMin flake, avaliable from most pet/aquatic shops, and they seem to adore
this! In addition, they take small portions of bloodworm also. It is quite normal for some
tetras to become fat after a meal, this goes within a day!

They mix readily with any other species of tetra, of which there are many, though this
species is one of the smaller varieties. They are mid to top level fish and so can spend a
lot of time at the surface of the water and definitely require a lid to prevent jumping out of
the tank.

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