Cardinals or neons?

Personally, I like cardinals because they have red stripes running the length of their bodies. Otherwise, they are the same in pretty much all aspects.
 
i like cardinals - bigger, more red
they school with neons, so perhaps you could get a few of both types - at least 6 in total to form a school
 
much prefer cardinals....ditto about more red & bigger fish. I have neons though, as I haven't seen cardinals at my LFS for quite some time
 
It's called Neon Tetra Disease. Not Cardinal Tetra Disease. Cards are more particular about water quality, but they don't just randomly die on you.
 
Cardinals- basically as everyone else said, because they have the full body length red stripe on them. Although, I'd personally get a mixture.
 
Cardinals. Just a beautiful tetra, a little more substantial than neons in terms of size and the red stripe running the length of the body.
 
I've done a bit of research on the Neon Tetra Disease (Plistophora hyphessobryconis) and it is contagious to other Characins!!

Its a parasite that causes muscular degeneration even disintegration. It can infect other characins when the kidneys are infected and urine gets into the tank. Also when the 'pansporoblasts' erupt on the skin it can infect the tank. Spores taken up with the food release the amoeboid stage in the gut, whence they penetrate the gut wall and subsequently invade the muscles.

Diagnosis: The destroyed muscles shine whitish through the skin. The signs are most distince in the Neon Tetra, in which both the shiny green/blue and the red stripes may be broken up by it. The milty-white places, which lie under the skin, also occur in other fish...

Both Cardinals and Neons can carry it... I would avoid both but especially Neons...
 
the tetras are dirt cheap, so the lfs's take less care of them, i suspect, compared with cardinals... in that sense, i think the cardinals would tend to be of better quality and health
 
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