Recently started working at a fish store and yes!! rummynoses scared me so much when they started playing dead. My customers were giving me side eye thinking they were getting sick fish lol
Shoaling is a group of fish staying together in general proximity. Schooling refers to fish moving in a coordinated manner. So your tetras can be cruising about loosely shoaling, but when you feed them or they get a fright and all start moving in unison then that’s schooling.
Just a boatload of the best information we've been fortunate to get and I have to say that the majority of your files are much more retainable for whatever you have discussed and off the top..... Angels , Amanos , Ropefish , pygmy Cory's , Rams , and Archer's!!! Now I'm remembering a few more but the whole of everything that you do is majorly appreciated and you are head's and tails better than 99% that do RU-vid and hopefully you have things lined up with the areas that you can contribute to growing the channel? I'm sure not any sort of YT expert but my feeling that you would be a great channel to be associated with like NT Labs has before and hopefully you can get the old Rolodex and see what's up ? There's so many Companies that have very little or no bites off of social media apple that could always benefit from a Shark like yourself and watching some of the channels that were just at INTERZOO it won't surprise me if you have a chance to get some of the getting from reaching out to OASE etc. Wonder what was the reason for them to be a no show this time around ? ☯️💟
Good point on emphasizing the acidic ph that the rummy nose prefer and thrive. Many become frustrated because they die off early and this is simply because ot the ph. A lot of tetras including cardinals and neons would really show off their intense coloration if the water is on the acidic side. I keep mine between 7.2 to 7.4 & they have been thriving for almost 4 yrs now.
I love these "in the spotlight" videos. 👍 The Flame tetras I got (somewhere last year) liked to play "unalive" in the bag as well. Not all of them, but still. 😅
I've got in my 160 l tank 13 Bleheri with 11 Columbian Tetras. They all look really cool and feel quite good. I've got them now for a year and they grown really big. Very beautiful fish.
I am one of those: rummynose tetras with angels and discus at 84 degree water, I have 8 with them, and I love these guys. In a 55, I'm going to 125 and adding 10 more soon.
I got my rummynoses by surprise actually. I was at Vivarium last year and visited the Aquabeek stand for silvertip tetras. You know how these conventions are. I was sure I had secured to bags of silvertips when I paid for them, but one bag was silver tips and the other one was rummynoses. They are doing quite well I think, although there are just six of them. Started out with seven, but one decided to explore the drop checker which wasn´t a smart idea obviously. They often school together or they shoal with the cardinals and silvertips (if the silvertips feel like shoaling because there are more males than females and they're almost all territorial). I'm considering moving some silvertips though because of the male/female inbalance. No one is getting hurt, but they do chase other fish around.
I got my first group of Rummy's a couple of months ago for my blackwater setup, going by what a lot of people have said I thought great, not much chance of them breeding in a community tank - I was wrong. Their first spawn was within 48hrs of putting them in and they've carried on spawning most nights ever since!🤦🏻♂😂
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I run a set up with what seems to be the opposite tetras... cochus blue. Hardly shoal, blue in colour as the name suggests and fast enough to steer clear of the silver dollar shoal.
I really enjoy watching the specie spotlights. I love learning about all the different types of fish and how they live. And how to keep them alive of course. I do have a question Matt. My P.H. is 6.2 thru 6.8. But I have hard water at 150-175. How is this possible? With low P.H. shouldn't you have softer water? Or am I just confused on how that works? 🤔
Thank you! I believe there is some very rare cases that this can happen. I've had strange things happen with customers using water softening units and also sometimes what your water supplier puts in it.
@FishShopMatt Thanks Matt. My water coming out of my tap has a P.H. of 7.4. 🤷♀️. I don't remember what the hardness is . Crap. I should've checked it first. I can check it later and edit it in. 😞 Sorry.
16 gal planted fairly heavy, small canister filter, just getting started. advice needed for stocking. I was thinking of 9 Harlequin Rasbora, 3 Amano shrimp, 3 dwarf Cory , maybe some snails ------ question to many or just about right?
My version of shoaling vs schooling: Shoaling: fish swim and stay together in group. Their head facing random direction but still stay in group. Schooling: fish swim and stay together. Their head and they swim facing the same direction.
I just had a group of 14 from a fairly reputable fish shop. I'm down to 2. I don't know how many were pretending to be unalive but some definitely were unalive. HOW MANY FAKE UNALIVES DID I SAY GOODBYE TO PREMATURELY??? WHERE WERE YOU 2 WEEKS AGO hahahahahahaha
yeah they go well together at least they are in my tank i added a group of 12 rummies in with my aging cardinals that have dwindled down to a group of 4 over a couple of years and had got really shy. I had gone to buy some more cardinals to boost their numbers but they were out of stock so got some rummies, cardinals still a bit shy but they have come out of hiding in all my crypts and do occasionally dart around the tank with the rummies now and then as long as no one is near the tank but the rummies don't care, they even come up and take the food from between my fingers when i feed the tank
Hi Matt! do you use co2 or what are your personal preferences for using or not using? Especially whats best for the fish health and their environment. Is it really that necessary for plants to have it to maintain and heavy planted jungle ecosystem? The plants in the wild dont need infusions or is there enough in the water naturally?
All good stuff, but in my experience they are vulnerable to temperature shock, if for example using a hose to top up and the shoal swims into a cold water stream, they will often die, and to be picky, other tetras seem more robust. I certainly wouldn't keep them below 24 degrees centigrade, if kept in cooler tanks they seem vulnerable to diseases, again that is simply my experience. Cooler tanks extend the life of some fish but not the Rummynose species. I have no experience of breeding them successfully but they will spawn in a well planted soft water tank, if well fed etc., mine spawn quite regularly and devour the eggs with gusto. Interestingly my Bentosi tetras tend to spawn at similar times to my Rummynoses - perhaps a modest water change, golden sunlight hitting the tank are factors.
Matt, question for you please. I have a large shoal of Rummy Nose Tetra and they shoal amazingly. I wonder if I introduced a large shoal of Penguin Tetra would they shoal separately? Or would the two shoals merge?
@@FishShopMatt thanks Matt. I went for a big group of 20 penguins and I have 45 Rummy Nose in a 450L 5 foot planted aquascape. I also have a group of angels , 6 Bolivian red rams, 3 miniature plecos and some dearf chain loaches. All coexisting wonderfully. Thanks for the tip.
my female cherry barbs have that sort of behaviour always swimming around in the plants and in peace lily roots always got their noses in things, males look great but they were chasing other fish, not sure if it was just playful or aggression but 2 of my males jumped out of the tank and 3rd is now in it's own tank and the rest of the fish seem happier now.
My Rummynose only swim left to right. They don’t seem to go to the back of the tank. Are they ok. I have 6 at the moment. with 5 angelfish 2 tiger barbs 3 tetras and 3 dwarf rainbow fish and one rainbow shark plus a bristle nose pleco. In a planted aquarium.
I have 15 rummy nose in a tank with- guppies,swordtails-gourami-platys and bristle nose plec however mine are always spit up never shoal- is this because they are comfortable after all this time or are they broken?
I have 3 angelfish in my community aquarium. One black, one platinum and one tri colored. The platinum stopped eating two days ago while tge rest are doing exceptionally well. The tank is cycled almost 6 months old. I have some sensitive fishes that are also doing fine which means my water parameters are good. I offered blackworms, chopped up mealworm, flakes and every other fish food. But still not eating any. He's not pooping to see if he has internal parasites. Any suggestions?
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Is the whole "playing dead" thing common to all Tetra species? I had to transfer my Cardinals and Neons to another tank, and each and every one of them played dead -- one even turned its blue stripe to an orangish-red color, and then colored back up within seconds of being released into the new tank. I still have two neons in the original tank that have proven impossible to catch. As an aside: Cardinals and Neons seem to school (shoal) together quite nicely!
I love rummynose tetras. I am down to three and they're about 4yrs old. I'm afraid if I add more they will bring in a bacteria or something and kill off my elderly ones. I will just wait, I think. They are great fish.
The only thing i dont like about rummynose tetras are that they are in almost every aquascape video. And when asked "what shall we put in the scape" Everybody suggests Rummynoses. And there are so many other beautifull schooling fish. My favorite is the Pentazona barb I love their behaviour.
Since they are so torpedo shaped they swim very fast back and forth, i've read that the advice is to have a 100 cm aquarium in lenght at least, do you confirm?
@@FishShopMatt same here! They are active and constantly moving and always very nice to watch but there is not much information about keeping them in planted tanks on RU-vid :/
I live in the Netherlands and whe call this fish "roodkopzalm" which literally means 'red head salmon'. I'm so confused right now 🤣 it's a tetra and we call them salmon?!?!
