Tetras are territorial?

Nah, I think their name has something to do with their fins... they're body type is like the Black tetras, but they're off white and slightly smaller.
 
I found a "Hi-fin Snow Tetra" on someone's personal page, but I have no clue what they are as there are no pix...so they look kinda like the Black Widow?
 
Originally posted by ChilDawg
I found a "Hi-fin Snow Tetra" on someone's personal page, but I have no clue what they are as there are no pix...so they look kinda like the Black Widow?
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yeah, their body type is exactly like the larger black ones.
 
Tetras are not really "territorial", but schooling fish do have "personal space" requirements. Think of it as a bubble of space around the fish. They do have a pecking order within the school, just as Barbs do. If there are more of them (the normal colored Blacks and the "albino"/amelanistic form are the same fish) than the tank can handle, you get exactly the situation described.

It is not necessarily a bioload over-crowding, but a personal space overcrowding. Schooling fish cannot or will not school unless several requirements are met - one of theose being significantly more swimming space than the total required by the personal spaces of all the memebers of the group. Black Widows (the old name) are among the fiestier Tetras.

HTH
 
Makes sense, and that would explain why the Black ones can steal the cichlid's food during feeding and not get their arse handed to them :p

I'll need to contact my LFS and see about bringing the white ones back (if I can catch them).
 
So the "Snow Tetras" are just amelanistic Black Widows?

Jeez, that was a lot of Googling to come up empty-handed and find out that the answer was that easy...thanks, RTR!
 
I have seen the fish in both color forms (can dyed be far away? Or are they out already?) under so many names I can't track them all. I still think "Black Widow" - which seems uncommon these days. IMHO it suits the fish as it hints of their temperament.

And you are welcome. :cool:
 
Sadly, the dyed form is out. I've seen them in 'halloween' colors, orange dyed in with the natural black.
 
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