They definitely eat soft plants with dissected leaves, but not ones like Echinodorus. People never used to feed their fish any vegetables like lettuce etc., which meant that a lot of fish got the reputation as plant eaters when they just needed some vegetables in their diet.Anybody had experience keeping this species in a planted tank. I read they are prone to munching plants?
George Farmer said:Hi Mark
Consider these bad boys, Red fin Colombian tetra - http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/c ... p?sid=2680
I kept a shoal in my 240 litre jungle earlier this year. Stunning fish that colour-up beautifully once settled. Apparently they can be a tad aggressive but I had no issues. I put that down to a decent sized shoal and heavy planting.
Note the different in colouration between mine in my planted tank and the images from the link above.
A shoal of 60 or so would look amazing in your 1,000 litre...
Cheers,
George
George Farmer said:Hi Gary
I feed all my fish a combination of colour enhancing dry food (Tetra ProCrisp Colour) and frozen foods, enriched artemia, bloodworm and mysis. For larger fish I also feed Tetra Prima.
Cheers,
George