Tetra question

[Incisions072185]

I have a bunch of buenos aires tetras and long finned red minors in my tank. a few red minors have died recently so I thought it was natural cause Bc I have had them for a long time, but tonight I noticed the buenos aires attacking the fins on one basically killing it. Is this a bad combination?


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[Andy Sager]

I have a bunch of buenos aires tetras and long finned red minors in my tank. a few red minors have died recently so I thought it was natural cause Bc I have had them for a long time, but tonight I noticed the buenos aires attacking the fins on one basically killing it. Is this a bad combination?


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Is it a bad combination? YES. BA Tetras ( also known as Bad A*S Tetras) can be extremely aggressive and not good tankmates for fish that have longer fins or are not fast swimmers. I would separate them if you intend on keeping the minors.

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[J.Mcpeak]

I got a shoal of b a tetra, the woman in the shop was sick of customer returns, as they were aggressive, these 2-4 shoal sized purchases! (Really not enough)

(Luckily I had all 21 bought for me, I cleared the dealers tank! Yeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!)
They are great fish, very beautiful, lovely purples and greens along the flanks and a tail to die for!
Get more BA tetra, not sure how many you have?
(But only if your tank can handle it stock wise)

I've observed hardly any aggression on a single fish but lots of chasing, I was warned about adding them in with clowns as they might nip at the tails, no such thing has occurred, conspecific aggression only, but the shoal is fairly large.