All About Ember Tetras - Lazy Little Nano Fish
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2021
- Ember tetras are nano fish like no other, they are the colour of fire and yet don't live up to that at all. in fact they are rather lazy, and perfectly happy bimbling about in a little nano tank. They do need company though so be sure to stock them with at least 6 member of their own kind.
They are perfectly safe to keep with any other nano fish so long as they are not aggressive, just be wary keeping them with large fish as an ember tetras would make a fine snack.
Thank you for this video!! Ember tetras are truly a wonderful fish. Their laid-back attitude is charming and they're such tiny orange gems. Mine like to shoal with my betta and because he is laid-back and they aren't fin-nippers, everyone enjoys each other's company!
Get 15+ if you're able. It really brings their schooling out. I had 6, then got another 11. So amazing to watch them. I think they look like little piranhas with their glittery colouring. They are just great.
Also, a tip for feeding them. Get one of those grinders.. you know the type. That will grind the food small enough for all the fish. Then just feed on both sides of the tank if you have more aggressive eaters.
@@joshiewhite lol weed grinders?
I have an ada60p how many do you think I should get
Relaxing voice. Kind of like a more feminine David Attenborough. Great video.
I put 80 embers into a 450L heavily planted tank dominated by red cherry shrimp and they are great together. I wanted a fish that wouldn't harm the shrimp too much and they were a great pick for my tank. Despite a pH of about 7.5, I have a lot more than 80 embers now and it is really satisfying to occasionally see smaller fish in the big cloud of embers that were clearly born in the tank and have safely grown up to join the adults in the open.
Loved the video, I will be sure to check out more of your channel.
Are they still schooling tightly 4 months later?
@seirerman I have had them for about 3 years now and they have always shoaled together and still continue to. They don't school (swiftly swim together in the same direction) like a rummynose tetra but they do shoal (hang together in a large group), moving across the tank like a cloud of orange.
Love a big tank with a large amount of small fish. Good move.
Are they shrimplet safe? I have a shrimp tank and am trying to get fish that won’t eat my shrimplet
@shiyaowang1185 I think you are asking the wrong question. The question I would ask is: Is your tank shrimplet safe?
I started a tank with 40 red cherry shrimp, 80 ember tetras and 20 praecox rainbowfish. I now have a few thousand shrimp in that tank with the same fish. Rainbowfish would absolutely eat shrimplets and I bet any kind of tetra would too but I have multiple 10cm balls of moss in that tank that act as perfect nurseries, letting the shrimplets grow up in peace and none of my fish bother the adult shrimp.
The only truly shrimp safe fish are obligate herbivores such as ottocinclus. The vast majority of fish in the hobby are omnivores so they will eat shrimp given the opportunity - I use moss and subwassertang to not give them the opportunity. This way I have a tank where all the animals - fish, shrimp and snails - all have places they feel safe and can thrive in my tank. The shrimp are happily breeding, cories are happily breeding, ember tetras are all happily breeding in the same tank and none impact the other in a negative way because the tank is set up to cater to each type of animal's needs and are not definitely incompatible with each other.
I love the Kuhli Loach shots. I’m planning a Kuhli Loach/Ember Tetra set up real soon! The tank is currently cycling.
This video is so calming, love your filming style and how your camera is displaying the fish rather than you with fish in the background lol, I like to see how the fish swim
this channel is gonna blow up
appreciate the in depth content! makes forum reading less necessary 💜
The aquarium hobby is an extremely difficult niche on youtube to get into. Good content simply isn't enough to blow up.
Love your videos. I appreciate your discussion of aesthetics, which is something not well covered (or not covered at all) on other channels.
Thank you for featuring another of my Favorites! I have 14 of these little cuties :) They are very aptly names and look Amazing in front of a black background.
Thank you for this video!! I just got my first ember tetras for my little planted tank and they’ve been delightful to watch. Their red-orange color pops out really well against all of the green foliage and dark rocks.
Great video. Great information! They look nice and healthy too. I just got a good batch for my oversized nano tank I’m building. So far so good!
They are friends rather than decorations for me.
Another great video. You have the perfect calming voice.
awww, thanks :)
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this informative video!!
Just got 20 to add to my 66G community tank which already had 28 green neons in it they seem to be much more confident than my neons and don’t seem scared of my much bigger black skirts in there. I love the way they bumble about. Great video keep it up!
loved this. I have a 55g with about 20 of them. they are awesome. This was great info about them, thanks so much. P.S. I love the way you say bye byeeee at the end, LOL..Keep 'em coming.
Hey Lyndon. Wow I look forward to the day I have space for a 55 gallon tank :D and I bet 20 embers look amazing all together. You've got me jealous! :)
Are embers a tight schooler like rummy?
Great looking tank
The Hikari blood worm type i crushed it a little more finer. So they can eat more instead the bigger one. Faster sinking food. Using Motar and Pestle to grind a bit finer hikari blood worm works better finely crushed
That's a beautiful Amano shrimp.
I have 40 and they formed two schools
They're getting human behaviours
Cannot wait till i get some of these for my betta tank i read they rarely nip fins 🥰 so perfect for my tank and i will be adding plants since bettas love them too
They are very very gently little fish, I have seen no aggression at all from mine. Perfect tankmates for a betta.
@@tinymenagerie Good to know. I just started a Fluval Flex 15 with a beta, a snail and two Endler livebearers. The Endlers are very colourful and are always moving, but they are also very small. I'm thinking that a group of 6 Embers might be a good edition; especially given the dark background and black substrate. It's either Embers, neons or cardinals, but your video makes me favour Embers.
Nice 👍
Chunky gorls
I love my little ember tetras
I love these amber tetras, would they be good for a 6 gallon cube tank all measurements of 11.5 to the H, L, W. a sponge filter, also adding live plants.
I have seven of them... i follow the instruction here in this post.. i'll be adding twenty pieces of fire red shrimps.. plus nerite snail... i like to feed the ember tetras a small amount of sinking food. Hikari micro pellets.. ❤❤❤❤❤
Ember tetras are lovely fish! they are so easy to look after and I believe they're one of the best nano fish for beginners. Your videos are great and I love your variety in animals in those tanks! What kind of fish are the golden ones? Are they a type of danio?
Hey Nacho! I absolutely agree, they are ideal for beginners being such hardy little fish. The golden one was just a glowlight danio - they change colour a lot depending on their mood.
@@tinymenagerie Heyy, and thank you! They're beautiful fish one day I want to own some of those! 😃
How funny mine are in a tank with kuhlis and red cherry shrimp too 🥰
Clearly our way is the best way :D
I just bought 4 today, I wanna learn about them
They are so cute . 🥺 can I keep 10 ember tetra with 1 betta in a 15 gallon tank?
What size tank is the one shown on the video? Love the channel btw.
Heyo. I believe that was filmed in my 100l tank.
Just got mine around seven pieces.. aquarium tank mates of fire red shrimps plus nerite snails.. and horned ones too.. using only ten gallons.. this will be enough.. 😅😅😅😅
Great video! What are the red and black spotted fish?
I think you might be talking about the Celestrial pearl danio
Would 6 ember tetras be ok with a powder blue dwarf Gourami…would they be intimidated and stay hidden?
Beautiful little fish, I wonder how they would be with Neocaridina shrimp ?
Heyo! There's actually one little 1cm cherry shrimp in the tank with them for about a week, its an accidental addition from another tank when I was swapping plants around. So far the embers have shown no interest in it at all. And seen as they don't really go 'hunting' I doubt they would find many shrimplets. I doubt they are 100% safe, but certainly not aggressive either.
I have embers with breeding red cherries, haven’t seen them go for the adult shrimp and honestly they’re about the same size so I’m not even sure they could do damage if they tried. baby shrimp I’m sure could be gobbled up though
Great video, what are the striped snake like fish? Thanks!
Heyo! Thanks 😊 the little striped fish are khuli loaches.
@@tinymenagerie thank you!!
any advice how to help thier color pop? mine are looking more brownish orange then red.
Hey Melissa. I’m not sure how much you can colour them up and how much is based on genetics. But I find mine look best in moderate lighting and it took a good few months of stable water conditions and a varied diet to really start colouring after their stressful time in the shop.
@@tinymenagerie thank you so much, ill be patient then!
hello there, my group of embers seem to be too small in size. at least that's what I believe is the problem because they seem to never come out of hiding. would you recommend to raise their number?
So a few questions
•How many embers do you have?
• what size is your tank?(in litres please)
•What tankmates do you have in with them?
I don’t know if anyone else has this problem but mine are very pale! I’ve had 3 for 2ish weeks and others for only a couple of days but they’ve got nearly transparent! How can I colour them up?
Tank is a 20 gallon long, with 6 zebra danios and 1 angelfish
They need to be in groups of six or more to feel stress free. Stress causes less color. Tank needs to be heavily planted with LIVE plants, including floating plants, so they will feel safe. They prefer dark substrate. Fish store embers are juveniles and don’t have their full color yet. Could take months to fully color up, as long as tank is heavily planted, you have a group of at least six…and preferably dark substrate. My tank meets those goals so they are bright red and not shy at all…stay right up front and center.
@@sherryp8967Thank you! I've got some live plants and 7 tetras. Also are 5 zebra danios, 1 angelfish, and 4 lampeye tetras. Is this alright?
@@chicagotypewriter2094 you need to increase the number of ember tetras as stated in the video . also they probably arent the best choice to go with an angel fish which will get large and can predate them. your embers are probably very stressed.
Have you ever breed them in community tank?
Hey M.Indra Soyat, I have seen my embers scattering eggs in the community tank, but I've never seen a fry. Their fry are tiny and take a hugely long time to grow so there's very little chance of survival unless they have very dense cover - which my tanks doenst provide. That's not to say they couldn't survive, they would just need a lot of luck :)
Dear Lauren:
I’ve kept Columbian tetra (Hyphessobrycon columbianus) for half a dozen years. I’ve found that gravel vacuuming their tank occasionally yields some eggs, so I keep such water in a 10-gallon. In this way I’ve raised hundreds of these egg-scatterers to adulthood and traded many for store credit at my, favorite pet store. I’v often wondered if I could do the same with ember tetra (Hyphessobrycon amandae), especially now that I culture vinegar eels (Turbatrix aceti), which might work as a first food for fry until they are large enough to consume live, brine shrimp nauplii. But, my water may be too hard and alkaline to breed this, tiny, Hyphessobrycon species.
Thank you for sharing this, terrific species profile of a very attractive, tiny fish.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Brinegar
P.S. M.Indra Soyat: my apologies for replying on your, comment string. CZcams won't let me start my, own, comment string, today.
@@ejbrinegar it's ok mate.
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Nice. However, the last thing said was goid in all tanks. 👎 no they get eaten
ha they ARE lazy!!!!!
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Thank You for the reply, however my name is C_r_s ☺.
Oh my god, I’m so sorry Chris! That’s what I get for trying to reply to comments after work, the ol’ brain just isn’t functioning anymore 😝
@@tinymenagerie That's okay, believe me I've been called worse 😂.