[Brendan Redler]

Are these fish a lot less hardy than their neon cousins? It seems like there's some expected loss involved with their purchase.

 

[Brendan Redler]

yeah I have a dozen that I bought the night before I saw this thread. Drip-acclimated them for only about 20 min like I would tend to do with any other fish. They look great and seem to be taking well. I might pick up another 8 or 12 too. They look great in that school!


I have only the cardinals and two spawning pair kribensis in the 29g so I think 20-24 fish would fair just fine in that tank. pretty heavily planted w/hyrgo, watersprite, duckweed, java fern, anubias, java moss, ludwigia, and a few others.


Thoughts?

 

[Brendan Redler]

I just dripped them, then put them in the tank which had received a water change a day earlier. I suspect that they will be fine. For whatever reason, that tank has faired very well with new fish/plants etc.

Time will tell.



P.S.
I wasn't going to buy another dozen right away. Give it a couple weeks minimum.

The price I think was $10 for four, so I paid about $32 with tax for a dozen.