Red Eye Tetra

Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae

Indestructible but bad-tempered tetra. Opportunistic scale-eater in crowded tanks.

Family: Characidae
Origin: Sud America (Paraguay, Paranà, Uruguay)
Tank use: Used in 0 tanks

Temperature

22 °C - 26 °C

6 - 7.5

Water type

Freshwater

Tank level

Middle

Adult size

7 cm

Description

The Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae is recommended to beginners because it survives in polluted water. However, stores omit its pestilent character.

When stressed or poorly fed, they transition to tearing mucus and scales from slow fish (Angelfish, Discus), causing lethal bacterial infections.

Care and observations

OPPORTUNISTIC LEPIDOPHAGY: If hungry or confined, they will bite the flanks of other fish to eat their mucus, leaving whitish ulcers. CHRONIC HARASSMENT: They swim frantically. Putting them with shy fish (Bettas, Gouramis) causes fatal stress.

Fish profile

Tank level: Middle
Adult size: 7 cm
GH: 5 dGH - 20 dGH
KH: n/a
TDS: n/a
Conductivity: n/a

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