Should YOU get Ember Tetras? (Care Guide)

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[invaderzim]

As a novice in this hobby i started with 8 in a planted 9 gallon tank and they have done excellent! So good that they actually started breeding and now i have some babies swimming around. I really like you tetra/cpd/Gourami tank.

[amylancaster]

I love ember tetras, but no one ever does videos on them, so thank you!

[amylancaster]

I agree with the suggestion to keep as many as you can together, i started with 5, then went to 8, now im at 13, and the difference in behaviour was noticeable each time, they became braver, schooled more strongly, and generally look nicer in the tank

[jmdq]

I like that you mention the lifespan changes when we don’t try to accommodate better care for fish we buy. Learn as much as you can about their care and try to come as close as you can to those requirements. Once your tank gets balanced out you don’t need to keep buying fish and watching them die far too soon. I have a group of black neons that are 4 1/2 years old, they are still very healthy. Every time you change things in a tank the balance has to settle in all over again. And I have learned to skip one day of feeding a week once all the fish in the tank are full grown. It keeps the tank stable, it makes the fish scavenge around and eat All traces of food, which is not then polluting your tank. Fish in the wild have to hunt food, plus they expend much more energy in the wild, swimming more to find food and fast to avoid being eaten by predators.

[HealingWarrior-icos]

I’ve got 4 in my 9 gallon right now (tank is only 2 weeks old so building up the numbers slowly). It’s so fun to watch them interact with each other. I’m looking forward to getting more!!

[ПлатоваМария]

Ember tetras are supercute and brave, and active! They are such tiny things, no video can really do them justice, one has to see them to believe how attractive they look in a tank. And its fun how they mimic other species if they have to. I used to have a small school of 6, then over time ended up with two left and was thinking of giving them away to somebody who keeps them, I just wanted kind of a mono species tank, just cherry barbs, no tetras. But the moment those two saw freshly arrived young barbs... It was special ) They blended in immediately! I decided to let them be and see what'd happened. They lived another two years before they grew really old and die. And all that time they considered themselves cherry barbs... Or vice versa. So, the concept of monospecies tank was terminated at the inception, but it turned out a curious experience afterall.

[michellep]

I love ember tetras. They are so cute and little. They are my favourite of the tetras.

[peadrianlastname]

I was planning on keeping 20 embers together, but bought em 5 per week and 1 glowlight tetra snuck in with my third batch so now I have 14 embers and 7 glowlights in with my colony of rcs that started at 25 and is now around 80 in a 20 gallon, it's my most interesting tank to watch by far

[tauncfester]

I keep 13 of them in a 17 gallon with some NeoCaridinia shrimp, This tank is pretty heavily planted. From what I've read they live in temporary flood pools (Aigarapes) off the main stem of some Mato Grosso regional rivers, in pretty heavy plant thickets. Mine are breeding, I see a couple new babies every 3 months or so. I'm sure they snack on their young but the babies are pretty cryptically colored and lurk in plant root thickets so a few do make it to about 3/16" size which the adults finally decide they're not food.

[SteeIWLF]

In my experience through a substrate mishap, ember tetras are crazy tolerant to water parameters.

I started a tank, I was going to plant it so I used some substrate mixed with dirt from an old tank, then capped it with a few inches of sand.

Wasn’t planning on using a bubbler so just cycled the tank and once the water got close to normal parameters I added some embers, a beta, and some black tetras. Water was staying fine.

Few weeks later I decided to add a bubbler. Well because I like things hidden I poked it way down into the substrate. Big mistake.

Unknown to me (figured it out later) the bubbler was churning up all the chemicals from the decaying matter in the lower substrate. (The sand had been keeping it in) and ammonia and nitrite spiked through the roof. Literally.

I woke up the next morning to dead fish littering the top of the water. Except the embers.

Tested the water and the ammonia pegged the test kit. The sample turned so green it was almost black, which is beyond the 8ppm the test kit maxes out at.

Changed the water 50% almost every day for a week and unburied the bubblers. In that time I lost 1 out of 12 embers. That was about 2 months ago. So 11/12 ember tetras survived over night in water with over 8ppm ammonia and still seem to be doing ok 2 months later.

[Reign]

I just bought 6 more for my school, should have around 20 now in my 55g. They are in my “tetra tank” so about 5 different species of tetras that max out at 2/2.5 in.
Feeding wise, I found that frozen cyclops, daphnia and baby brine shrimp work great for them. Definitely my top 5 fish to keep

[KnotsinYarn]

I just got some of these yesterday to go in my 10 gallon tank I plan to use to grow out some baby mystery snails. I bought 6 but missed one when I bumped the bag and only have 5. I REALLY think I'm going to go out and get a few more today or tomorrow. Once my snails hatch and get a bit bigger, I might add a betta and just have those in my 10 .

[edgarsfishchannel]

Great video man! I keep my ember tetras with guppy’s, Mollys, Corydoras, neocaridina and amano shrimp. I got 8 of them and I hope that they breed soon 😊
Just found your channel today and instantly subscribed!

[jmdq]

I like the aqua clear hang on back filter because you can adjust the flow, from low to high. This gives me the slower flow I need for my Honey Gourami, my Plakat Betta and my other tetras, Ammano shrimp and Corys I keep in my 20 gallon long. I unplug the filter at night, because I have a dirt and dark sand capped substrate with loads of plants. Started unplugging the filter after my tank was well established . Surface breathers like a calm surface. So do floating plants, which die off if they are constantly moving all around the surface.

[LorenaLubin]

W video idk why this video doesn’t have 1mil likes and how many should I add in a 55 gal

[WeipoMingpo]

You can try baby brine shrimp. It'll make their color pop even more.

[corydorassterbai]

Hello, i saw your anchor catfish video, and i wanna Point some things out.
Mine dont swim at all and stay in The samr spot almost always, so they dont search for food.. From my experience, they didnt touch prepared foods. What im doing, i separate Them in a pretty small container and put a little leaf or plant they can hide under. After about 10 minutes i put some bloodworms ONTO Them. They Will feel it and swallow it, live and frozen works well. I separate Them so The other fish wont eat The worms. Cyclops daphina, they wont touch it(my experience) i recommend you do this once a week.. Thats enough for Them. You can also spot feed Them in The tank because they dont really run away.. Just a heads up, so they dont stare. Mine were almost there..
(this is an advice for feeding Them).
Frozen tubifez also work, but seem to love bloodworms or mosquito larvae

[GuyPadfield]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video, I am planning to get some this week and what you said has been informative. By the way, I am curious to know what the floating plant is that looks like duckweed in some of the shots? Thanks.

[Ashers_Art]

Great video! May I ask what the plant is on the far right of their tank at 4:22 ? Thanks

[thatsyournamedude]

I like getting fish keeping advice from Frodo