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I was given 4 neon tetras and a 10 gallon tank. I purchased and quarantined 6 more to make a group of ten neons. Then I was given a glow betta that seemed depressed or lonely. What a very nice surprise, that they all live together in joyful harmony! going on 7 months.

Thanks for the content, I have been obsessed lately with the history of this fish. During the depression one neon would sell for enough to buy a house, but we didnt know how to breed them so there were guys that were like literal indiana Jones braving the jungle and being murdered trying to find the secret fishing holes that housed neons. Once they were found they had to be transported back to the US alive all at a time when an aquarium heater was a job and not a piece of equipment.... Someone really should make a movie....

The first fish I always think of when it comes to aquariums are neon tetras ♥️ They are just absolutely beautiful!! Great care guide to help us take care of these colorful and peaceful little fish !! Thank you always for sharing!! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚

Neons are one of the fish I wish I had kept sooner. I always thought they were boring but since I added a small school to a betta tank and got to see them interact I love them. Very cool fish.

Thank you primetime & smallscape for all the species or item specific videos you work hard to share withus. We love you.

Agnoquatics is one of my local stores! Glad you visited them, great people, amazing tanks. Flip is another local place for me, just picked up some livestock from they yesterday! Thank you for visiting my area and promoting our local businesses!

Starting my beginner aquarium soon with some neon tetras! Thanks for the informational video

Great informative video as usual! :)

I really like the way the tank is scaped. Having that crinum growing out of the rocks is a really neat idea.

excited for the video. i plan on getting a school of them once i finish setting up my 15 gallon which will be a betta community tank

Great video Jason

I bought neons from Flip Aquatics and I absolutely love them! They are beautiful, happy and healthy and I love watching them swim around and interact with each other. I also have Black Skirt tetras in with them, and they get along pretty well until feeding time. The black skirts tend to be very pushy, lol

I love your videos lots of information thank you for your videos.JD

Great video, loved it

45 ears ago I had a 4ft aquarium that was well planted and I had about 24 Neon Tetras, about 20 Glowlight tetras, and about 8 head and tail light tetras, and a few small catfish as the clean up crew. I miss that aquarium, it was mesmerising watching the schools of Neons and Glowlights swimming around, sometimes all together as 1 school, sometimes as species separate schools…I had no difficulty keeping them healthy. Water is soft in that area, and clean, and in the aquarium with the plants slightly acidic. Neons and Glowlight tetras are some of the most under rated fish, they are beautiful in a big schools.

I love the glowlight tetras in there I have a school of 13 of them in my 20gal long they're so chill and I love their orange color.

One of my Fluval Flex 9g tanks is housing 12 neons, 3 ottos, and a nerite snail. Heavily planted, and thriving. Love me some neons!! Highly recommend the fluval flex setups. I have several and they're great for nano fish!!

Love neons. So beautiful.

I have had about ten for a year or so and I love watching them and trying to count them.

We just got some neon tetras last night. So perfect timing for this video lol.

It would be really cool if you make an separate video of the neon sickness, i know there is something about this online but I'm still not sure if I could spot it right :/ this is an amazing educational video! :)

I learned the hard way that my parameters just don't work with regular neons BUT my black neons and green neons are doing awesome. 8.+ PH. Thanks Jason for the education!

Amazing video!!!!!

Nice video buddy

Thank you so much for this species profile. I checked out your list but I didn't see the chili Rasbora. I would love to have those fish and I would also really appreciate a species profile on those.

One off my favourites and first ever fish. Just have to have some Neons 🤗

Good Morning. I have Neon Tetra's along with my Peapuffer. It is a fun tank.

Neons, plants and driftwood. Super nice.

I do like the black water look. I drop some Indian almond leaves in there for the color. Usually soak my spider wood and what not for about 2 weeks before adding, I'm also talking with a out 4 months if experience in fish keeping so far. I learn quick. My lives sustained compared to lost are better. I lost 4 Cory Dora and 4 shrimp and 1 Betta sustaining 2 Cory Dora 5 shrimp 1 Betta 5 neon tetra and 2 mystery snails right now. Adding 6 more albino Cory's 8 more shrimp and 11 more neon tetra. Two different tanks though.

These tetra Neon are so beautiful like literally super beautiful

I have the neon tetras 2 living happily with my halfmoon Betta :) awesome fish 🐠

Hey Jason, I enjoy watching your posts. I’ve kept the same Neon Tetras for over 12 years. I even had them reproduced many times. I moved across the country, so I sold the aquarium, stand, equipment, and all the livestock in it. I was even lucky enough to grow beautiful Freshwater Sponges. I had no idea there was such a thing. At first I threw the Sponges away, because I had no idea what they were. I took a sample of the Sponge to my LPS. They knew what it was, and purchased all my sponges from my tank. It was kind a scary, because it was growing so quickly. My Tetras lived a whole life. I even had a nasty Neon Tetra that was very aggressive. This Neon would kill other fishes not relate to Neon Tetras. When I sold the tank, I only had Neon Tetras and some a handful of Otocinclus Catfish. This nasty Neon was biggest Neon Tetra I ever had. He was the boss in the tank, until it died a week or so before I sold the tank. Thank you for sharing.

I love neon tetras 😍

This is great. I’ve had me neons and cardinals with kuhli loaches a betta nerite snails. All got along great. They key to the betta is to introduce them last. Give the other stock time to acclimate and find their space. Also having several neons allows them to school which makes it difficult for the betta to single one out. But it always will rely on your bettas personality. ❤️❤️

🤟💛😎 we gave a tank with neon Tetras, phantom reds and loaches. Awesome fish 💛

Great video when I first got my group of neons there were great swimming all over the place I added a angel fish to there aquarium temporarily since then I have removed the angel fish but they still behave like he there very afraid won’t come out of the plant I’m thinking off getting some new fish to add not sure what type

They certainly are beautiful fish

I live in Phoenix where the tap water is basically liquid rock. I have to use half tap and half RO water to keep my PH down to about 7.4.

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I JUST brought home my first Neon Tetra's this evening so PERFECT timing finding your video. =) Question - I have a 10 gallon planted aquarium that currently has a single nerite snail and 15 cherry shrimp. Do you think with what I already have in the tank, plus the 4 neon's I just brought home, that would it be alright to eventually add 2 more neon's so that I have that minimum of 6 total or do you think that would be too much for the size of the tank with what I have in it? Thanks!

I recently returned to the hobby and put 10 neon in a cycled 20 gallons with a betta and pygmy corydoras. Parameters were good and there was no bullying. The betta didn't even care. The pH is around 7. Yet, I had 60% neon mortality within the first week. I love them, but I gave up on them and got glowlight tetras and harlequin rasboras and, so far, all of them are doing fine.

I have a community tank with plattys, 2golden dojos, 2 guppys,2yoyos and a school of neon Tetras and they all get along great.

A large school of neons, along with some gold rams, would look great in a 55 gallon aquarium..

Hello Jason, I have been following your channel for months now. Very informative content. I would appreciate your suggestion on stocking a tanganyikan tank. I have (1) Leleupi and (1) Brichardi and will be adding (1) Inkfin calvus and (1) Gold head compressiceps. I have large dragon stones in the tank for hiding; do you suggest adding shells for the altolamprologus?

Could you do a video on nano species? Like ones that would be small enough that they wouldn't particularly bother neocaridina

Neons are awesome fish but when described, no one seems to mention that they are known to be fin nippers. I added six neons to a tank that had only a Honey Gourami and a Mystery Snail. Within a week, the Gourami’s “feelers” and the snail’s tentacles were damaged. I couldn’t find them anymore because they were hiding from the neons. The neons went back to the LFS and the Gourami and snail couldn’t be happier…and healthier.

I had a tough luck with NTs, few got ich, few died as I wasn't aware on the thermal shock, the survived weak two guys are still with me for about an year.

I have goldfish now but these are my favorite fish.

One thing I learned about tetras is that they like to mimic other tank mates. I had neons with guppies and they picked the ground and swam everywhere with the guppies. I had them with just corydoras and they stayed lower picking the ground like a corydora. Hopefully somebody has had the same temperament and behavior, otherwise I just sound crazy lol.

I like you video 😍😍😍

Great info! Too bad they prefer soft water which is a no no for our hard Chicago water :( any suggestions for pretty moderately hard water fish?

Great video as usual. Thanks for all the information you give us. I have a 75 gallon tank, heavily planted. My ammonia is 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 15-20. I have about 50 neon tetras. I’m concerned after watching your video. Ph 7.2 Kh 3 Gh however 10 Should I be concerned? Anything you would recommend.

i really like the gold and diamond varieties too. there are even longfin neons which are not my cup of tea

Still one of the best looking fish in the hobby.

whet is the solid red fish thats in there as well?

I have a 55 gallon with 40 neons in there👌🏻👌🏻

I like these a lot, but I've had lousy luck keeping them. Black Skirt Tetras, Black Neon Tetras and Serpae Tetras all seem to do much better in my water, which is 7.0 and hard.

curious about what 2 out of my 6 my neons are doing [ got them yesterday] . all of them are healthy, eating and doing well but 2 of them [ one is the smallest of the bunch and very slender and the other is pretty plump] will leave the school and go near a cluster of plants and chase each other for a bit [ not in an aggressive way tho] before returning to the bunch. might be spawning and although i highly doubt the fry will survive. if it helps my harlequin rasboras are also spawning and iv seen eggs from them

I bought 9 neon tetras for my 10gallon two days ago. One of them died yesterday and another one doesn’t look too well. The water parameters are good and the tank is cycled for a few weeks. I added used filter media to speed up the cycle and also added API quick start. Not sure what’s wrong. Maybe I just bought a couple of bad ones?

Hi Jason, I just subscribed to your channel, get information. I have a planted 75 gallon and have mainly neon tetras, along with a few platys. All my levels are perfect. My KH is a 4, but my GH is 13. My GH is a 13 in both my 75 gallon and quarantine tank. My gold fish tank is a GH of 8. PH is 7.2-7.4 for all my aquariums I have had no issues with 75 gallon with and gold fish tank. Fish are doing great. I’m just concerned about future issues. But I’m losing neons in my quarantine tank when I first buy them. After watching your video, I figure it must be the high GH. Do you have any suggestions.

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I have white clouds in my tank with a heater can I keep neon tetra in with them

I have been bitten by the neon bug and have three left of my group, they don’t do well in my water. Old story find fish that fit your water,don’t change water for fish ( bites on this one)!

How would i add synodontis cats to a highly aggressive mbuna tank? These mbunas have killed a small electric lab before so i wanna be careful with the synos. Will the synos survive? And if so how to add them in? Theyre dwarf petricola

I have a 6Gallon Tank of 40cmx23cmx25cm When I look for stockings suggestions on yt or even articles website's many suggested Neon Tetras but aren't neon Tetras schooling fish they need around 15-20 Gallons right? So can I take the suggestions and get around 6-7 Neon Tetras for my 6Gallon Tank or any other fish other than a Betta you suggest?

Recommendation for a good substrate color to showcase the fish color ?

Everytime I've had neons they have died on me. They are beautiful but I'll stick to my danios and rasbora. May try again with them now in more experienced. Loved the video though, I'm inspired to try tetras again. Thank you

I have 8 Neon Tetras and 3 Ember Tetras which school together that all live in harmony with my male Betta and they all live in harmony

I'm trying to convince my husband for some Neon Tetras. The reason why is because I think it's time he moves on from the death of one of our Dumbo bettas. I can't blame him, we did what we could and he suddenly fell ill. We tried getting leaves but the ones that were delivered were basically small and looked like normal leaves. Regardless of our efforts, he didn't make it. So after a few months I've convinced him to buy a betta and some neon tetras since he's decided to upgrade the tank to ten gallons. If things with the neon tetras and our bettas don't work out we'll be either keeping them in a different tank or returning.

Call me crazy, which I know a lot will, but I've almost completed a tank with 2 neons, 2 ember, 2 black khuli loaches, 6 neocaridina shrimp, and 2 pea puffers. I say almost done because I'm currently on the hunt for 2 celestial pearl danios to complete the tank, if I can ever get to my lfs when they have them before they sell out. The only thing that's been in danger are the snails that I add, my puffers have a nice snail graveyard right in the front of the tank.

Something might be wrong with my neon tetra XD they totally interact with the substate. Obviously not like a true bottom feeder, but they totally pick stuff off the bottom looking for food or poo

Besides tanganykin cichlids, what will live ok in high ph 8 - 8.2 water? My kh is 20. I want Bolivian rams and some cories and some forktail rainbows will my water be bad for them?

How long should new fish be quarantined?

May I ask how do you feed neon tetra flake food? Ours does not come to the top to feed for flakes.. I wonder if I scoop up the tank water and soak the flakes and pour it in, it sinks so neon tetra would be able to eat flake food midway level?? Also, how big pellet size do you feed them. 0.5mm?Still too big? Thank you.

Can you put neon tetras in a tank with a tidal 55 filter? Do they get sucked into the filter through the surface skimmer?

I have found that Neons and Cardinals will school together just fine!

I have a 10 gallon tank with 5 glo tetra, and 4 snails.. is there any type of fish I can add to the tank? Prefer a bottom fish that'll keep algae and snail breeding down also how many should I get to be comfortable with the 5 tetra

Any ideas for a cold water tank?

Neon blue + red + silver = most attractive fish there is. Better than Cardinal (not enough silver)!

How I envy the fishkeepers with soft water, that have spontaneous breeding from neon tetra, while me, with my > 22 dGH hardness and PH of 8.0 water, I struggle to keep them alive. 😗

I need that plant in my life.

I really wish that I could have neon tetra’s but I have really high PH.

Will they go good with Roseline Sharks and Rainbow fish?

Pity he doesn't mention Neon Tetra Disease. I bought NTs and was distressed when they starting getting sick. I kept medicating, and managed to kill my BN Pleco by over-medication. The Neons all died anyway. And yes, I had them in quarantine for a month before putting them in my display tank...

I realized my tank water comes in at 6.4 ph. I won't Chace ph. The neons are doing great.

😍🥰👌🏼

You say it’s ok to keep about six neon tetras in a 10-gallon tank. Will they be happy and thrive? I read from a few sites that they won’t school and will stay in one place.

I had 12. Most of them died off slowly over about a year. Looked like their bodies and fins were rotting. I still have 1 left who stays healthy. I bought 6 more this year, but they died off quickly. My pH is about 8, so that is probably the problem. I give up. Maybe I will try keeping the green or black ones. My solitary neon needs a friend.

The redness of my neon tetras is orange is that normal or did they lose color, and what does that mean

Mine constantly dig up the substrate. Weird that yours don't touch the sand..

At 1:06 anyone know what the orange-yellowish fish are?

I have one neon tetras sleeping by itself from the group why??

How come some of them dont have blue and red just tan etc ?

Can i keep neon tetras in a 5 gallon ?

Mesmerizing footage, It was hard to concentrate on what you're saying XD

What’s that dark red fish swimming around?

Hi

This is what I googled-Swimming. Normal behavior for a gourami involves swimming near the top of the aquarium. ... As such, gouramis tend to hang out near the water surface, so they can take their supplemental oxygen

Hopefully my new Gourami will be ok