Red Eye Tetra or Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae

Red Eye Tetra or Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae

Red eye tetra or Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae are beautiful and will make a great addition to your community tank. They are decent, albeit robust choices for the ‘general’ community tank, where it will add plenty of movement. They are  best kept with active tankmates.

Although it has a reputation as a bit of a fin nipper, this behaviour can usually be rectified by keeping it in a small shoal of at least 6-8 specimens. When maintained in these kind of numbers any squabbling is generally contained within the group. As with virtually all tetras, it fares better in the presence of conspecifics anyway, and tends to be a little skittish if kept in insufficient numbers.

You can feed them Hikari Micro Wafers or Dennerle Complete Gourmet Menu.

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*Please remember that these fish can change their colour according to the light and substrate colour – for optimal colour, invest in a Chihiros, Twinstar or ADA light.

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