Info on painted tetras

Interesting, judgemax.
The larger of my two is the size of a quarter. and mostly faded. very pretty little fish, actually. (But i dont know if thats scarred scales im looking at or what)
I wish I knew a lfs here that I trusted, then I could just keep them untill they were both white again ( if they last) and give them to the lfs so they could get into a bigger school.
As it is, I guess I'd better not plan on any tankmates for the ten gallon that are potentially incompatible with them... Unless you have room for them judge! :)
 
A pet store that just opened here has both the painted glassfish and painted tetras. When I first looked at the store (I'm just starting a tank now), I saw the glassfish and tetras and said "ooh... I gotta have those". My tank has cycled well, I have plants that are about a week old (well, I planted them a week ago, you know what I mean), and a couple of platies and another fish that I dont know what it is.. just silver with a black band on his tail, we call him "twitch".

Luckily, I looked into a nice database I found online that seems to take some input from other fish owners, and links to "compatible fish" at the bottom of the description, and found out that even though they are compatible, the painted look is artificial, so I won't buy them (even though they do look nice, if only it was natural). We ended up buying some Angelfish (though I DID want some neon tetras, and a betta but from what I read, buying some will just give me slightly larger Angelfish) and I read that bettas and Angelfish won't get along.

Good luck with those tetras, even though I don't support painting fish for sales, since you were given them, it sounds like you are trying to give them a good home, which is really what they deserve after what they've been put through by the company that painted them.
 
sigundo, why would'nt an angel and a betta get along? based on thier ecological niches (what they do in nature) and thier sizes, I see no reson for this, and I doubt that angels are nippy.
 
Keeping with the topic of painted fish but changing species, has anyone ever heard of painted blood parrot fish? Or can they come in a variety of pastel colors? I went in a nonlocal fish store and saw a group of these--the employee was a young kid and didn't know much, couldn't answer my questions. ????? :confused:
 
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