Lemon Tetra
Glassily open, could lemon tetra (Hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis) seems to be just a sunbeam flashing through your community tank if not for background elements like plants and driftwood. Another member of the large characin clan, lemon tetra has a fairly elongated body like its smaller relative, neon tetra and like neon and other characins, make lemon tetra is best if kept in small schools of six to eight fish.
One of the most distinctive features of the lemon tetra is their large eyes. The top of the lemon tetra’s eye is brilliant red, a stark contrast to the yellow pastels it displays in its body color. Actually, however, lemon tetra quite colorful on close inspection. Body color is a delicate pale yellow, flanks are silver, and the front of the anal fin is shiny-bright-yellow and sharply divided from the other rays, which is black. In the male, the rest of the anal fin wide and lined in black, a feature that is lacking in plumper women. Like many male characins do, the male lemon tetras also have small hooks on their anal fins. Both men and women have tetras characteristic adipose fin, which is pale yellow in color.
Although omnivorous and can exist on a diet of cereal food, shows a pale yellow color of the lemon tetra best if the fish’s standard diet is well supplemented with live treats. The lemon tetra is an egg-scatters. However, breeding can be tricky because women often have a problem expelling their eggs and after the game is lemon tetra like many others of their kind, quick to cannibalize its eggs if not removed from the breeding tank. However, the eggs hatch in about 24 hours after the game. Fry should be fed a live diet and if they survive, they will be about two inches long as adults.
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