Black Neon Tetra Care and Breeding: The Best Neon? 

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Mine love to choreograph sitting perfectly still in the water.

These are one of my favorite species. They're larger and less timid than Neon Tetras, and consequently go especially well with Black Skirt Tetras, which come from the same region (Paraguay River). I've also kept them with Ancistrus, Bronze Corydoras, Neon Tetras, Glowlight Tetras and Serpae Tetras with no problems.

Love the black neons. Had them for a while! Super hardy, get a decent size (for neons) & awesome “natural” looking coloration👌🏻

I have Black Neons, not only are they beautiful, but very easy to keep. Mine are in water that is naturally very hard (like Cichlid hard) and a pH of around 8. They have done really well and survived the first month of my tank being cycled (I used PRODIBIO START UP to get nitrifying Bacteria). They're quiet fish but very elegant. Also, in Australia, they are inexpensive, so a school of a dozen or so is a good selection. Mine are in a community tank with lots of other species, never been problematic. They look great with Neon and Ember Tetras.

I love these tetras. Have a pack in a heavily planted 29 gallon with six pea puffers and all has been well for more than a year. Thanks, Jason!!

I strongly prefer these over other neons, they look amazing, especially in a planted tank, and when their red eyes are fired up.

My 6 black neons shoal with my harlequin rasboras. .... Your dwarf gourami has real personality!

Black Neons are also one of my favorite fish. I like to have a school of these with a school of Glow Light Tetras. To me, the combo is hard to beat as well as beautiful especially when they mature.

Great video and information 😀 Black Neons are cool cause they get bigger and more laid back 😁 i did a care video on Emperor Tetras today 😀

I have a group of Black Neons in my 65 gallon community tank and they are great. Also have Neons, Lemon Tetras and Silver Tip Tetras in the community as well .

I just ordered a school of these fish for my 20 long yesterday. They will be housed with pair of Apistogramma Cocatoides and a school of panda corys. Love your content, always full of great information.

Good morning! I'm loving the look of that tank!

Jason I enjoyed this video very much and learned a few things about these great fish. Thank you sir

I have some of these guys and really like them. My tank sadly just survived an Ich outbreak, so I am needing to grab some more and put them through quarantine before I can add the new guys to the ones in my tank. My water has a high PH, 7.7, and these guys do fine. Right now my Black Neons are living with some Platys and snails, and everybody gets along great. This is a really mellow fish! I have seen these guys sometimes school with young Emperor Tetras and I have heard that Penguin Tetra schools will also some times link up with the Black Neons. These guys are super friendly.

Hello John, oopps I mean Jason! lol The Neon Black Tetras are on my TOP 5 list of best fish to have!!! I have had them with my Discuss, my community tanks and in their own species tank for over 3 years now. They are prolific breeders, especially in the 8-10 am cycle! They are hardier then Neon tetras and I just love their jumbo size attitudes!!! A while back like in July, I ordered my first batch of Green Neons, and I mentioned that they got ICH real fast! Well once I was able to save 99% of them, just lost one, they too have become one of my top 5! Your "Species Special" is the #1 video I seek out and look for ASAP, because your insightful and detail information just adds to the over all fish care for our hobby! Thank you so very much for being there for us all!!! Oh and Joanne's aquascapping techniques and TIPS are just as important!!! You two make a great team!!! Much Joy and Happiness to you both and your kids!!!

Greetings Jason. Thanks for showing these fish. I really like their colors and that they are schooling fish. Sincerely, Marty Borst 👍🐠

Right when i wanted to know more about black neons this video poped up Great job!

My black neons are my favorite fish. Most people have never seen them and comment on them more often than any others.

Great looking tank 👍. I’d really like to put a Pearl Gourami in with them, in a tank like that. With a couple of super red bristlenose and a small school albino corys...

I love my black neons! Gorgeous little fish that is active but not frantic, confident but not a bully. Hardy and they live a long time for a small fish. They also do great in my soft water, whereas my platies and guppies struggle, even when I add aragonite or Equilibrium. So instead of trying to keep livebearers and African cichlids, I switched to fish that thrive in my water. I currently have a 65 gallon tank that’s fully planted with black neons, neon tetras, ember tetras, Cochu’s blue tetras (unerrated fish!) and a couple of hardy male platies and Endlers that survived in my water and seem to do fine. A farlowella catfish and a couple of otos along with a few ramshorn snails take care of algae and cleanup. Black sand and background with the large plant load makes the colors pop. I spend hours and hours each week just watching this tank the way most people watch tv or films. Such a cool hobby.

I love everything in this tank except the plecos never was a fan . I always thought they were ugly lol for me a complete eye sore . Also they poop a lot . The big ones do anyways, I use snails for my clean up crew . Love the black neon's . And I love your set up .

I love my black neon tetras. They are laid back, peaceful and loosely shoal together with the other tetras in my tank (serpae, black phantom, rummy-nose). 🐟🌱🐌

My late husband always wanted black neon tetras. I like the neon and cardinal neon tetras. Love the aquascape. 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐠

Excellent profile video for a cool little fish.

Thank you for all the great advice you give im new to fish keepung but in diving in head first and very thankful theres good information out there

Looks bigger than my regular 20 gallon. Will have to upgrade :)

I had these, some things I learned about possible problems. They can be prone to a fungal or bacterial infection on the top fin, I found other people that had the same thing. For me it went away on it's own after I racked my brains trying to find a good medication. Also, if you feed too much flake they can get bloat that will look like dropsy, for me switching to some good frozen foods cured it, also feeding less. I had mine in a ten gallon, too small, would not do that again, I'd go with a 20 long at the absolute smallest. While ember tetras are not too bad in a shrimp tank, these are not the same, they will eat almost every single shrimp baby you get.

I have a 20L with 35 GREEN Neons. The light bar is on the lid closer to the front. White sand from Petco. Black background. They're 'stunning'. Had them around 1.5 years. Never lost any. Moving them to bigger tank and might want to add a couple different types. A bit curious re Honey Gourami. IDK

Great video and information as always.

Just recently got 4 of these. 2 died no clue why but the other 2 are great! Love these beauties!

Really love this fish my tank looks happier

I think the original neons are still the best, the main breeder of these species just needs a boost of genetic diversity by introducing some quarantined wild imports into their breeding facilities. Assuming they are collected responsibly and efforts are put into protecting these fish in the wild.

great video. so many neon types

Hey J another great vid...

I agree!! 💯🌟 Black Neons are the Best, most greatest and my favorite Neon!! 🖤🤎 I think you accidentally confused the Dwarf Croaking Gourami with the Sparkling Gourami!! I have a book about Fish facts and it says Dwarf Croaking Gourami is Trichopsis Pumilus, and Sparkling Gourami is Trichopsis Schalleri!! (With respect)

Sick I was thinking about getting these!!!!!

I have the same issue with that substrate. I used it in my 40 gallon tank, which is stocked with a Sajica, his wife a rainbow cichlid, their friend a demon earth eater, a very young green sevrum (He will be moved to a 75) and a lonely Kribs. I washed out the sand for a good 45 min, put it in the tank and ran a cheap filter. 7 water changes later, I thought I was in the clear, so I took the filter out and i am now running with a sponge filter only. The cloudiness came back with a vengeance

Awesome info thanks 😊

Love these

i actually have black neons in with my betta and some nerite snails and they all live peacefully. i suppose it depends on the betta.

Hi @PrimeTimeAquatics! I have a 16.5 gallon tank with 7 black neons. I rencently bought another 3 huge black neons. The aquarium I have is composed of those 10 black neons only. These 3 huge ones are becoming very territorial and I might need to get a bigger tank. I would like to know how to make the black neons grow to their maximun size. I have wonder if breeding those 3 huge ones would work to pass their genes to their offspring?

Great tank

I remember finding 5 on an abandoned tank on my, literally about 6 months of thinking that the tank was completetly empty, therefore i just ignored it on my garage, it was a 60 gallon that was slowly getting empty due to evaporation, one day i was on my phone and i sit beside the "empty tank" and saw those 5 mfs swimming and schooling, and i was so excited to found them, i set up a new aquarium on my room, a 10g, i took media from an old rack i had for about 1 year now, and 4 days after i moved them, and i feed them only live daphnia once every 2 days or so, THEY FRICKING DIED, i get so mad of thinking that me caring for them was worse than just ignore them for months. I test the water and it was perfect, i really dont know why they died.

Happy Fourth!

Like those fish but cardinals and neon blues are the best

I’ve seen them at special pet store almost 3in. Not sure how they got them That big but they were awesome

Hello, I just got my first black Neon tetras x 6... I have lemon tetras and Blue Neon tetra and cardinals. Will they be ok with these tank mates. Kind regards Hugh .

Man the black neon is my favorite fish too our favorite neon that is not my favorite fish LOL I've had some now for the last three years and are doing great but just don't buy them from Petco every time I buy them from Petco they die and usually take out a lot of my other fish keep them with kirbensis cichlid and all the fish you mention in my 90 gallon long

Is this 20G long on a amazon basics shelf ? And is the amazon basics shelf strong enough to hold this tank ?

Really a Bulletproof fish

I just got 6 of them. How long does it take for them to color up ? Coloration looks dull.

can you mix all different kinds of neon tetras all together? Like black neons, green, true neon, diamond head, albino, cardinal (red neon), gold and long fin neon tetras? say a school of 10 of each sub specie on a 110 gal pond or aquarium?

I have a giant near 2 inch black neon. He's more than 2 years old.

If I get a ten gallon tank with 6 of the black neon tetras would I need anything else with them

Little known fact: Black Neons will eat duckweed!!!

Good Morning

Awesome! Hey Jason, my local store has "white neon tetra", I've never seen such a thing -- not albino, more like your regular neon but with a bright white stripe instead of red. Can't even find them online. Is there a scientific name? A very new variant? Edit: on closer inspection, maybe they are albino tetra, and it's just that 'albino neon tetra' are not true albino?

How many of this with discus in a 113 gallon aquarium?

Getting 7-8 tomorrow

Hello could you please tell me if these are schooling fish like your rummy nose tetra’s and harlequin rasboras or are they more schoaling fish like neon tetra’s who just chill out next to each other?

I love the flavus cats. Do yours ever fill up with eggs?

I love these fish - is it okay to keep them with Black Skirt Tetras in your opinion

I want to put these in a 40 breeder with a colony of Bolivian rams

I personally think the best types of tropical fish are the Tara's

can i ask you. how do you know it's male and female and how do you breed them?

Added some black neons to my cherry Barb tank and the cherry barbs are being aggressive to the neons😢

Can I keep betta with black neons

Please someone help! I’m super new to fish keeping, I made my best to get some tetra neons and yesterday I finally added them to the acquarium, got 8, 7 of them look healthy but 1 since the very joining of the tank was acting weird, he didn’t school up with the others and prefears to swim higher closer to water surface, he also did not eat (the others all ate willingly). My water parameters are: Ph 6.8, gH 6, kh 4/5, no NO3 nor NO2, T 24 degrees C (75/76 F), no Cl. I have real plants (1 fast growing and 1 mid), driftwood and catappa leaves. Is the sigle weird tetra sick? What’s up with him? What should I do? Please someone give me some insight into this, it hurts my heart to see him acting like that!

I have 2 that my cousin gave me and their eggs just hatched so far I found 8 what do I do

Can the black neon work with discus?

My black neon tetra won’t eat food from top of the water. Why is that?

Will they school with neons? Thanks

My 3 Black Neons share a 20 long with 5 Rummy-Nose Tetras, 3 Glolight Danios, 3 Threadfin Rainbows, 3 Julii Cory Cats, 1 Honey Gourami, and a Clown Pleco...in a pear treeeeee..... LOL Live plants keep the algae problem at bay.

Are they more hardy then regular neon

I have black alge, I tried the white scrubber that is magnetic.

Hmm how many for a 40 gallon breeder?

How do you tell the gender of the black neon tetra?

best tetra for a betta tank mate a hellboy betta

seems the same size of cardinal instead of neon tetras

They are called black neons, but have nothing to do, with the normal neons ...