Posted by oglefun21 on March 19, 2003 at 16:06:40:
In Reply to: behavior of my tetras? posted by katrina38 on March 13, 2003 at 14:16:36:
:This is my first time ever owning a fish tank, and I recently purchased two moonlight gouramis and six tetras, 3bright pink ones (I don't know their name) and three candy tetras. But they don't school at all, infact for the first 3 or 4 days they all stuck together and now they are all in seperate areas of the tank, and if one comes near another one they chase eachother away. Ecspecialy one of the pink ones who has claimed the whole center of the tank. Is there a reason for this? what should I do?
It is not all that uncommon for Tetras to not exactly school together all the time. How big is the tank? If it is rather small they might just not really have room to school. My neons are sometimes on completely separate sides of my 29 gallon. But, they seem perfectly happy so I don't worry. And, I do notice that they seem to fight or bicker with each other frequently. Could just be their personality.
Hanna
