From the article: Bloodfin Tetra - Aphyocharax anisitsi
Have you kept a Bloodfin Tetra? If so, share your experiences about care, habitat, feeding and breeding of Bloodfin Tetras. Your knowledge could help other owners! Share Your Experiences
bloodfins was my first fish. my starters
- My first fish was bloodfins. I brought 4. And they was my starters. Unfortunately I only have 2 of that 4 left. I love them. I immediately could tell. If they was happy. There color would fade. I know have 4 neons 3 hatchetfish. And 1 survived. Spawn of 3 sunburst Mickey mouse platy. In a 29 gallon tank. Ph 7.6 ammonia 0 nitrate 0 nitrites 0. Temp 76. Christmas tree moss flooding the middle. Anubis some swords plants. Airbar on always. Light 10hours a day. I just started feeding them live flightless fruitflies from petsmart. Ooohhh they love them they look like sharks feeding. The point was I was looking few more fishb to top off my tanks and imma get more bloodfins
- —Guest Joey Shuvelz
My experience with my bloodfin spawning
- It took my female a long time to finally lay eggs because they were babies when I bought them (4 males 1 female) and 2 1/2 later my female randomly jumps out of the tank and lays a bunch of tiny clear eggs.. all of the tetras instantly ate them ALL, I didn't even see one make it to the ground. Then my female laid eggs again about 5-10 minutes later and then this time I tried to save them, but I'm pretty sure my dojo loaches ended up eating them all. So what I recommend to you guys is get a seperate cycled tank with a sponge filter and transfer all of the eggs to that tank, or take out all the fishes out of the tank with the eggs. You know that the female is about to spawn because the male will be chasing (probably fermenting the eggs or just wants to eat the eggs; or both hah) and the female will lose color on her fins. Don't worry though she will regain color once she is done laying all of the eggs. Next time I am there when she lays eggs I'm going to put them in a breeders net and takecare of em from there!
- —Guest Simba
Bloodfin Tetra Breeding
- What worked for me: 20 gallon long, clear marbles across bottom 8-9 inches of mother tank fake and live broad leave plants( swords, java fern, anubis, banana plant, and java moss) temp same as mother tank 75f mature sponge filter, marbles tank and fake plants cleaned with water no soaps or chemicals, then sterilized with boiling water. put 6 bloodfin in tank about one hour before lights out (PH 6.4-6.8 hardness 3-6 i also use tetra aqua safe, and tetra blackwater extract, some aquarium salt- all already in mature mother tank, get water by mixing tap water 7.5 pH 15 hardness with distilled or r/o water to get my mother tank water usually mix 3 parts distilled or r/o with 1 part tap) the next morning kept blinds up so sunlight came in indirectly, then put room light on to increase light slightly, finally aquarium light i put on tilted angle for more light indirectly then i heard them jumping and saw eggs falling hatched in a day on glass now my first tetra spawning so good luck kc2aaq
- —Guest kc2aaq
