Are Indian Glassfish tetras?

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At work yesterday (I work at Petco) this person was telling me that Indian Glassfish (labled glass tetras I think) are tetras and I argued that they aren't stating that tetras come from only South America and Few parts of Africa but not India and she said "Trust me" and it has been bugging me. I am saying they are not tetras. I think they need brackish actually. So anyone want to be a correction nerd. Thanks


BTW we do not carry monsters in out petco besides small oscars and africans if they count. I make sure the tanks are good and I'm telling the customers some "right" things about fish. Believe me some people think a pleco is a live version of a pleco. It's annoying but part of the job.
 
Jox;1052121; said:
Believe me some people think a pleco is a live version of a pleco.
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That doesnt make sense. Im not 100% sure but tetras are probably in indian waters by introduction. In which they thrived thus now harvesting them from there. Who knows. Indian Glassfish is a tetra, notice how they have the apidose fin like most, if not all tetras.
 
Mystix212;1052302; said:
That doesnt make sense. Im not 100% sure but tetras are probably in indian waters by introduction. In which they thrived thus now harvesting them from there. Who knows. Indian Glassfish is a tetra, notice how they have the apidose fin like most, if not all tetras.
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About that quote. Whoops I mean Some people think a pleco is a live filter for their 10 g tanks.

Well I have this fish atlas and they aren't in with the tetras. According to wikipedia they aren't in the tetra family. I hope some really knowledged person can help me.
 
I neve runderstand the naming and class-deals with fish, but I was always under the impression they were in with Perchs, but I've also heard others.. Chandidae or something like that? Transparent fish.
 
Do that many people not know about www.fishbase.org ? ;)

Search for the common name on google and find the scientific name, then search for it on fishbase.

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10130

That page states for Parambassis ranga:

Family:Ambassidae (Asiatic glassfishes)
Order:Perciforms (perch-likes)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)

Tetras are characins.
Family: Characidae
Order: Characiformes
Class: Actinopterygii

So in short, no, they're not related in the least, other than being in the same class. (Most fish are in the class Actinopterygii)
 
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