All About Ember Tetras - Lazy Little Nano Fish 

Also, a tip for feeding them. Get one of those grinders.. you know the type. That will grind the food small enough for all the fish. Then just feed on both sides of the tank if you have more aggressive eaters.

@@joshiewhite lol weed grinders?

I have an ada60p how many do you think I should get

The aquarium hobby is an extremely difficult niche on youtube to get into. Good content simply isn't enough to blow up.

Are they still schooling tightly 4 months later?

@seirerman I have had them for about 3 years now and they have always shoaled together and still continue to. They don't school (swiftly swim together in the same direction) like a rummynose tetra but they do shoal (hang together in a large group), moving across the tank like a cloud of orange.

Love a big tank with a large amount of small fish. Good move.

Are they shrimplet safe? I have a shrimp tank and am trying to get fish that won’t eat my shrimplet

@shiyaowang1185 I think you are asking the wrong question. The question I would ask is: Is your tank shrimplet safe? I started a tank with 40 red cherry shrimp, 80 ember tetras and 20 praecox rainbowfish. I now have a few thousand shrimp in that tank with the same fish. Rainbowfish would absolutely eat shrimplets and I bet any kind of tetra would too but I have multiple 10cm balls of moss in that tank that act as perfect nurseries, letting the shrimplets grow up in peace and none of my fish bother the adult shrimp. The only truly shrimp safe fish are obligate herbivores such as ottocinclus. The vast majority of fish in the hobby are omnivores so they will eat shrimp given the opportunity - I use moss and subwassertang to not give them the opportunity. This way I have a tank where all the animals - fish, shrimp and snails - all have places they feel safe and can thrive in my tank. The shrimp are happily breeding, cories are happily breeding, ember tetras are all happily breeding in the same tank and none impact the other in a negative way because the tank is set up to cater to each type of animal's needs and are not definitely incompatible with each other.

awww, thanks :)

Hey Lyndon. Wow I look forward to the day I have space for a 55 gallon tank :D and I bet 20 embers look amazing all together. You've got me jealous! :)

Are embers a tight schooler like rummy?

They are very very gently little fish, I have seen no aggression at all from mine. Perfect tankmates for a betta.

@@tinymenagerie Good to know. I just started a Fluval Flex 15 with a beta, a snail and two Endler livebearers. The Endlers are very colourful and are always moving, but they are also very small. I'm thinking that a group of 6 Embers might be a good edition; especially given the dark background and black substrate. It's either Embers, neons or cardinals, but your video makes me favour Embers.

Hey Nacho! I absolutely agree, they are ideal for beginners being such hardy little fish. The golden one was just a glowlight danio - they change colour a lot depending on their mood.

@@tinymenagerie Heyy, and thank you! They're beautiful fish one day I want to own some of those! 😃

Clearly our way is the best way :D

They're getting human behaviours

Heyo! There's actually one little 1cm cherry shrimp in the tank with them for about a week, its an accidental addition from another tank when I was swapping plants around. So far the embers have shown no interest in it at all. And seen as they don't really go 'hunting' I doubt they would find many shrimplets. I doubt they are 100% safe, but certainly not aggressive either.

I have embers with breeding red cherries, haven’t seen them go for the adult shrimp and honestly they’re about the same size so I’m not even sure they could do damage if they tried. baby shrimp I’m sure could be gobbled up though

Heyo. I believe that was filmed in my 100l tank.

I think you might be talking about the Celestrial pearl danio

Heyo! Thanks 😊 the little striped fish are khuli loaches.

@@tinymenagerie thank you!!

They need to be in groups of six or more to feel stress free. Stress causes less color. Tank needs to be heavily planted with LIVE plants, including floating plants, so they will feel safe. They prefer dark substrate. Fish store embers are juveniles and don’t have their full color yet. Could take months to fully color up, as long as tank is heavily planted, you have a group of at least six…and preferably dark substrate. My tank meets those goals so they are bright red and not shy at all…stay right up front and center.

@@sherryp8967Thank you! I've got some live plants and 7 tetras. Also are 5 zebra danios, 1 angelfish, and 4 lampeye tetras. Is this alright?

@@chicagotypewriter2094 you need to increase the number of ember tetras as stated in the video . also they probably arent the best choice to go with an angel fish which will get large and can predate them. your embers are probably very stressed.

So a few questions •How many embers do you have? • what size is your tank?(in litres please) •What tankmates do you have in with them?

Hey Melissa. I’m not sure how much you can colour them up and how much is based on genetics. But I find mine look best in moderate lighting and it took a good few months of stable water conditions and a varied diet to really start colouring after their stressful time in the shop.

@@tinymenagerie thank you so much, ill be patient then!

Hey M.Indra Soyat, I have seen my embers scattering eggs in the community tank, but I've never seen a fry. Their fry are tiny and take a hugely long time to grow so there's very little chance of survival unless they have very dense cover - which my tanks doenst provide. That's not to say they couldn't survive, they would just need a lot of luck :)

Dear Lauren: I’ve kept Columbian tetra (Hyphessobrycon columbianus) for half a dozen years. I’ve found that gravel vacuuming their tank occasionally yields some eggs, so I keep such water in a 10-gallon. In this way I’ve raised hundreds of these egg-scatterers to adulthood and traded many for store credit at my, favorite pet store. I’v often wondered if I could do the same with ember tetra (Hyphessobrycon amandae), especially now that I culture vinegar eels (Turbatrix aceti), which might work as a first food for fry until they are large enough to consume live, brine shrimp nauplii. But, my water may be too hard and alkaline to breed this, tiny, Hyphessobrycon species. Thank you for sharing this, terrific species profile of a very attractive, tiny fish. All my best, Sincerely, E. J. Brinegar P.S. M.Indra Soyat: my apologies for replying on your, comment string. RU-vid won't let me start my, own, comment string, today.

@@ejbrinegar it's ok mate.

(nteraie)T_a_k _o_ P_t_r! Most o_i_i_a_ c_m_e_t yet! Everyone should post comments in the form of a game :D

@@tinymenagerie Thank You for the reply, however my name is C_r_s ☺.

Oh my god, I’m so sorry Chris! That’s what I get for trying to reply to comments after work, the ol’ brain just isn’t functioning anymore 😝

@@tinymenagerie That's okay, believe me I've been called worse 😂.