C. MacLeod - 2005-05-16
Hello,

My grade 10 class has been working on an aquarium project. We have 6 marble hatchets and 3 corydoras catfish. 4 glowlight tetras were added as a mid swimmer in our 20 gallon tank. The glowlights were added on Thursday, seemed to be doing swimmingly on Friday, but all four were mysteriously deceased by Monday. Tank levels were ammonia 0ppm, nitrites 0ppm, nitrates 5ppm, and phosphates 0.5ppm. The only thing we could figure is that they were sucked into the filter. However, they were rather large glowlights so it shouldn't have been a problem. But as a warning, be careful!!!!

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Lora Lichty - 2005-05-15
The serpae tetras are very beautiful fish. I own three of them right now. I will probably add more soon. They get along great with other tetras. My serpae tetras have a very high metabolism. They are constantly swimming around.

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Alex J. Bloom - 2005-05-15
My glowlight tetras are very communal fish. I have 2 baby swordtails 6 glowlight tetras and one otto catfish

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Tristin Mock - 2005-05-14
We've had a school of three of these in our community tank for three years. I was surprised to find a fairly large fry in the tank this morning! This is the first time I've had an egg layer spawn, and I wasn't even meaning too.

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Bonnie - 2005-05-08
I have only just started my aquarium, but I still believe these fish are one of the best aquarium fish yet. They are quite active and at my house have even grown to like being pushed up and down by the filter current. :) I recommend these fish to anyone with an aquarium.

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Blondie - 2005-04-20
The first Leporinus I brought home is snow white w/blk. bars. I took a second one home the following night and the two swam side by side with mouths open before going at it with scales flying. I brought a third home the next night, and neither showed this behavior towards it. I suspect the first two are males. They still spar, but no out and out fighting. These two seem to have a bit more black edging on dorsal and rear of anal fins. They also have a bit more color on their pelvic fins. They pay attention only to each other, not their tankmates, which are gouramis, headstanders, bleeding hearts, kissers. They are in a 125. They need their own kind to interact with, and lots of room. They love meaty foods, but also love halved cucumber and zucchini held with an elastic on a rock, and spinach and romaine lettuce on a veggie clip, and algae wafers.

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Mike - 2005-04-15
I have 4 tanks that hold 5 gallons. I started with simple fish like minnows and now moved on to these fancy fish.( I think their fancy). I have used this website to set up my tetra tank and this is great information.THANKs.

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Alex C - 2005-04-09
I have three of these that I bought because they were labled as black neons in the store and I wanted to give my existing black neons some school mates. When I got them, I thought they just had awful colours because they were juveniles. Then they grew into these beautiful fish that I had real trouble identifying until I found this site. A beautiful, peaceful fish with a voracious appetite for frozen brine shrimp. I just wish I had one good school of one certain type of tetra, instead two groups of three lonely tetras. How incompetent to completely mislabel a fish in a shop! How incompetent of me to buy them!

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Bob Doetsch - 2005-04-06
The info here is very helpful to us newbie aquarium hobbyists. We just started our 20 gallon high tank with three Black Tetras. At first they were reserved and confined themselves to an area of cover. We are one day into this now, and they are more comfortable, alternate between hanging around the plastic leaves and darting around, occasionally nipping at each other. We are told to wait at least a week before adding more fish. We had a false start dealing with a chain pet store before we wised up and visited a real fish store with expert advice.

-Bob in St. Clair Shores, Mich.

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Anonymous - 2005-04-05
To me, Hatchetfishes are very interesting and great to learn about. I am thankful that there are living things out there in the world, like Hatchetfishes, to be fond of. Hatchetfishes are my personal favorite fishes!

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