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Many freshwater fish-keepers have a warm place in his heart for a small fish with a big name, the 1 ½-inch hemigrammus erythrozonus … or mush easier to say glowlight tetra. Like its little cousin, the neon tetra is glowlight an easy fish to keep in an aquarium. In fact, many neon keepers, tired of fighting neon disease, move toward glowlight tetra.
The glowlight Tetra pastel peach in color with a horizontal red-gold stripe that spans the length of his body. Originating in Guyana, South America, making glowlight well in a fresh water tank on a little sour, but peat-softened water which is kept between 74F and 82F. Glowlight tetras generally occupy the lower third of the shell, except for feeding when they will swim to the top.
The male glowlight tetra is more slender bodied than his friend, although it may be difficult to tell them apart until the female is full of eggs. Glowlight tetras are easier to grow than many other tetras like neon and cardinal tetra. But give them a soft water environment is a critical factor for breeding. In fact, when breeding glowlight tetras, it may help to set up a special breeding tank. After your females have laid their eggs, you must remove the adult fish from the tank until the fry hatch since glowlights have been known to eat their own eggs. Glowlights spread their eggs among fine leaf plants. Clean, fresh water and live foods can encourage breeding. But when changing water, be careful that you do not remove so much that it causes your tank to recycle.
Like many tetras are glowlight tetra a schooling fish and prefer to swim in the company of at least seven of their comrades. Another common feature of many tetras is sensitivity to bright light. Lighting in a glowlight Tetra aquarium should be filtered. This is easily achieved with aquarium plants. Artificial plants enough (unless you plan to grow fish), but glowlight Tetra believes that real plants are a delicacy along with its usual price of tropical flake food, tubifex worms and brine shrimp.
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