My tanks were heavily planted and I'm sure they ate a few little guys but not that many and I never new how many I had in there in the first place. Everyone got lots of live food anyway so the angels did not pick on things, I alternated tubifex and brineshrimp pretty much daily.
Tetras and Angels
- Thread starter yonk420
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Howdy,
It completely depends on the kind of tetras. Neons are the natural food of adult angel fish. However, as stated before, larger tetra like lemons or serpae are no problem. And it also depends on the size of tank. I don't recommend keeping angel fish in anything smaller than 50 gal. When they decide to breed, this might even be too small (as Sohfatfish documented above, problems arise).
Generally: Go for it, they are great tank mates.
HarleyK
It completely depends on the kind of tetras. Neons are the natural food of adult angel fish. However, as stated before, larger tetra like lemons or serpae are no problem. And it also depends on the size of tank. I don't recommend keeping angel fish in anything smaller than 50 gal. When they decide to breed, this might even be too small (as Sohfatfish documented above, problems arise).
Generally: Go for it, they are great tank mates.
HarleyK
I would get the angels mainly wild dumerilli , at the size of a quarter, 6 months or so later when they were near 4" they would start pairing up. as soon as they bred I would sell the mated pairs. I got them at around a dollar each and got $15-20 in store credit each in mated pairs. The tetras were a wide mix.
Angels can and will eat smaller tetras. your best bet is to do deep body tetra's like Bleeding hearts.
I doubt they will, but id keep plants in there as a distractor, and more than one bard most def!
