Candy Cane Tetra (Pack of 8) Live Fish for Aquarium - Live Fish for Aquarium - Exotic Freshwater Live Fish, Live Aquarium Fish, Live Fish, Live Freshwater Fish - Freshwater Fish

✅ As peaceful fish, candy cane tetras adapt well to a community tank setup with other non-aggressive fish. Candy cane tetras are ideal for beginner and intermediate tropical fishkeeping enthusiasts

✅ The candy cane tetra is a popular fish because of its pretty rosy salmon-colored body, which gives it a striking appearance in an aquascaped or planted tank

✅ The tributaries and lakes, home to candy cane tetras, are densely vegetated. Candy cane tetras enjoy the shade the forest canopy provides

✅ Part of the Characidae family, candy cane tetras are closely related to rosy tetras. They both have a rosy salmon hue. Because of this, the candy cane tetra is sometimes referred to as the false rosy tetra

✅ Other names for the candy cane tetra include ornate tetra, bentos tetra, white tip tetra, white fin bentosi tetra, white fin ornate tetra, and HY511

✅ The candy cane tetra (Hyphessobrycon bentosi) is native to the slow-moving tributaries and floodplain lakes of the Amazon river in Brazil and Peru. The waters of these lakes, streams, and small rivers are clean and rich in tannins and natural acids, giving them a brown or black color

✅ In their natural habitat, schools of 50 and more candy cane tetras live together. Candy cane tetras eat small invertebrates and plankton

✅ The population of candy cane tetra is stable and widespread. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) categorizes these fish on the Least Concern list. There are currently no threats to candy cane tetras

✅ In their natural habitat, candy cane tetras can grow to three inches long. In captivity, they reach two inches in size when mature

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