cardinal tetras

[sour_girl]

I'd love to see pics of this - Cardinals are so pretty I can imagine having such a large tank full of them!

 

[fishyjoe26]

seriously...cardinals...about 500 IMO.

yeah well after having 13 med. bala sharks,1 adult bala shark, 5 half grown red hooks,3 silver dollars, 6- 5-8 inch clown loaches,8 pictus catfish, 8 syndontis E. in there with a just a 404 fluval for filtration you will understand.
I had two and one of them cracked the case did. I had all those fish in there.
the ph went down to 5.8 to 6.2 and the nitrate when up to 200-250. I didn't want to go throw that again so I rehomed my fish to DNA(dallas north aquariums) and bought a new fx5 for 125.00 from a lady who never used it and desided to do small schooling fish.

 

[fishyjoe26]

the dang cardinals died one by one, the ph and everything else was fine too.

 

[loach43]

the dang cardinals died one by one, the ph and everything else was fine too.

Iv'e always lost about 1-2 out of 10 in the first day. They HATE stress, even a tiny temp swing. Once I came home with about 20 of them and my dog busted out the door and ran towards the road. I chased him down (cardinals in hand) and got him in the house within about 10 minutes. Less than an hour later, all cardinals were dead.

 

[fishyjoe26]

dang that sucks, I slowy built up a big school of them in about a month. i had 175-200 of them, and 150-175 of them died. 25-50 of them I sold to a friend.

 

[loach43]

You can go with 150-200 Cardinals, IMO.

I'd go with this or not too many more, otherwise you won't see any good schooling action. Cooler way to go than a big mass of standing glitter imo.

 

[fishyjoe26]

loach look at the above post I don't have the cardinals anymore.

 

[Damon0306]

I'm done with Cardinals, I had a school of 60 of them, they all did well for about 6 months, then for no reason they started dying off.

Had them on the best foods, Hikari Micro-pellets, thawed blood worms and brine shrimp, water changes every 2 days.

Might have been old age, not sure, but I am left with about 20 of them.

When they go I am going to re-stock, but this time with captive-bred-born Neon tetras, my cardinals were imports, like MOST are, you can buy captive-bred-born cardinals from Europe, but for around $6 each its not worth it.

 

[loach43]

loach look at the above post I don't have the cardinals anymore.

Figured you'd be having another go at it. I did when I lost mine but the second time around I took a freakin styro and a heat pack.

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

I would say 250-300 would be reasonable.