Skirted tetra are known to be fish eaters and fairly agressive. I never really noticed until a few months ago.
Here is the scope. 75 gallon freshwater community tank. All sorts, cardinals, rasboras, glass catfish, platinum and marbal skirts, 2 betas, rummie nose, frog... Much more. So we restocked the tank after a year or so. Moved a few things around setup new tanks. Ect.. And upon examining the tank i noticed many of my smaller cardinals and raboras are missing. Low and behold!! Skirted tetra has one hanging out of ita mouth. Yes its true. So i drought this new found info to my local pet shop and inquired.. Turns out skirted tetra are not the best community fish. They do get bigger and fairy quickly compaired to all the other i named. Besides this i also niticed the skirts taking shots at my rather large and old angel.
If i had the chance to do it all again i would avoid skirted tetra and go with a few rainbows or well a nice mix of rummies, cardinals or neons and rasoras. Maybe 5 of each. In a 20gallon. Also consider coras or a clown pleco.
Good luck!.
Current tank setup.. Owning the human!.
45 bow disuss. 75 community. 35bow freahwater predator grow tank. 75gal profile 1000 saltwater. 10 gal saltwater. 20gal qt.
Here is the scope. 75 gallon freshwater community tank. All sorts, cardinals, rasboras, glass catfish, platinum and marbal skirts, 2 betas, rummie nose, frog... Much more. So we restocked the tank after a year or so. Moved a few things around setup new tanks. Ect.. And upon examining the tank i noticed many of my smaller cardinals and raboras are missing. Low and behold!! Skirted tetra has one hanging out of ita mouth. Yes its true. So i drought this new found info to my local pet shop and inquired.. Turns out skirted tetra are not the best community fish. They do get bigger and fairy quickly compaired to all the other i named. Besides this i also niticed the skirts taking shots at my rather large and old angel.
If i had the chance to do it all again i would avoid skirted tetra and go with a few rainbows or well a nice mix of rummies, cardinals or neons and rasoras. Maybe 5 of each. In a 20gallon. Also consider coras or a clown pleco.
Good luck!.
Current tank setup.. Owning the human!.
45 bow disuss. 75 community. 35bow freahwater predator grow tank. 75gal profile 1000 saltwater. 10 gal saltwater. 20gal qt.