Cardinal Tetra vs Neon Tetra: Which is Better?
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
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In this video we take a look at both the Cardinal Tetra and Neon Tetra. Which one is better?
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Usually the only differences between neons and cardinals people mention or care about is size and color, but my priorities lie in health and hardiness
Cardinal for bigger tanks, neon for smaller ones. Both are great ❤
I would pick the cardinal!
Cardinals all day long so beautiful! I have around 20 of them and they are the main focus of my tank!
Cardinals don’t like a lot of motion in the room outside their aquarium, and no amount of dither fish or cover will help, so they’re not ideal for little kids. But… They in groups of 20+ they are super fun to watch if you have a peaceful house.
I have hard water..the neon tetras have done very well in my water. And are the first fish I see when I walk into my home office in the morning ..love them
I had a bunch of neons some years ago and they all died for some reason, the Cardinals are way more hardy and think their colors pop way more. Love the Cardinals!
I have both. They all stick together. Sometime soon Ill order cardinal from Flips.
Great info. Thank you.
Cardinal, I would pick based on your info.
Very helpful video ❤
I have had Neons live for 4-5 years up here in upstate NY 🤓🐠
Both are terrific but I prefer the cardinals based on look alone. I have had a group of 14 in my 34 gallon for over a year now in my relatively hard water--been my hardiest fish! At the LFS's in LA they are generally $3 for neons and $4 for cardinals.
Very cool!
Any neon thats not the standard neon - so much hardier! Im loving my gold neon tetras
So true!
interesting video tyvm
Cardinal ❤ .. neons 🎉 .. but the best looking ones to me are Riovon flame 🔥 tetra .. or the rummynose . 😅
❤💙Gotta Love the Cardinal !!❤💙
Thank you for this video sir, this is just what I needed at this moment in time. I'm looking to buy Captive bred Cardinals very soon
Have fun!
Green Neons are my favorite. I just don't care for the red. Ember tetras now, they would be my favorite bright fish.
You can't beat the Cardinal Tetra. Pure Beauty.
I want to keep Cardinals so bad! I had about 30 neons in a 55, and I'm down to 6 to 8. I don't know what happened, but when I moved my tank to the basement-they would just drop one-by-one.
Love my 20 cardinals in a planted 20 Long. Species only....ooo la la
I love the cardinal and neon tetras, and they're hard to find in my area right now, problems with their shipments dying as soon as they come in. So I'm definitely looking for reputable and will have to order online.
Always wanted cardinals but can't find them in my area.
Amazing video. It's what I'm considering for my next tank. I'd love for a part 2 to this comparing the Neon to the Green Neon to the Black Neon. I'm debating between the 4 different kinds...the cardinal, green neon, black neon and normal neon....just don't know yet! It's only a regular 20 gallon, so I can only choose 1 kind. Thanks for the video!!!
Black neons are 100% the easiest to take care of and they are very outgoing compared to the rest.
Cardinals are very skittish in my experience, they freakout at the slightest amount of movement in the room.
Green neons are the most shy, they love to hide and not be seen and many people share this experience with them.
Regular neons are great, but finding healthy stock is difficult because they are mass produced.
Black neons have none of these cons, in fact they have no cons.
They are outgoing, school very tight together, and if you have ever seen them in the home aquarium you'll know the name Black neon does not do them justice.
They have a beautiful baby blue color to them once they settle and color up.
And black neons only cost 2-3$
Black neons school really nice and kind of just hang out.Good is you want a slower looking tank.
Springfield is an hour away from me very cool
Still cant understand how most other fish channels send to the uk.i also just received tee shirt from australia.
Cardinals are more vibrant than neon tetras but i would choose neons because they're smaller there i can have a larger school. I do plan to setup a tank for cardinals in the future.
I have more experience with cardinal tetras. They've done really well for me. My water parameters are 7.8 pH, 200 TDS. In my established aquariums, the pH is 7.0. Cardinal tetras are active fish. I think that a 10 gallon aquarium is too small. A 20 long is the minimum tank size that I would choose for a group of 10 or so. My current group of cardinal tetras are doing well in a 29 gallon aquarium. The oldest one are almost 5 years old.
What's going on always love your videos.
Have you heard of neon tetra diseas, a type of fungus usually growing on their upper moth/lip.
Ya - that can really rough tough to treat!
Neon tetras are hard to keep alive because health issues. Their look-alike, the Cardinal tetra, is slightly larger but much hardier. Neon tetras, glofish and guppies are common and popular but all three die easily.
I pick the Cardinal. (Gina)
I do prefer the Cardinal versus the Standard Neon but I since I’ve went Black Neon I ain’t going back to either Cardinal or Standards.
Black neons are great!
Would red cherry shrimp be safe to keep with them in a large planted tank like yours with 40 cardinals?
Cardinals should be too small for the adults but the young would be at risk, but a large planted tank should offer plenty of hiding places for them
Any big fish 5”-6”in that will be peaceful with either of these species? I’m assuming no, but considering Severum or EBA
Most medium size cichlids will wet them. Maybe pear gourami?
They'll become food quickly
The 10 neons i bought hid in my Synodontis's mouth
That’ll happen 😀
Looking for a suggestion for a centerpiece fish for a 120 gallon tank that has an assortment of about 100 tetras???
Empire gudgeons, peacock gudgeons, honey gourami, apistos, rams?
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Just got 4 cardinals. I plan to grab a few guppies to go with them but maybe I'll get 4 more cardinals to have 8.
I got 4 more and plan to add another 4. The 8 are much happier than just 4.
Are green neons any more or less hardy than the blue neons?
for me, just as hardy, I have green neons and cardinal tetras together
Greens have been fairly hardy for us.
@@kevwill42 Thanks mate.
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Jason should I worry about my ph? I have well water rich in Iron and sulfur so I have a water softener system that softens my water to a extremely soft level, but leaves my ph between 8.2 and 8.4
I tried lowering it with tannins but it's pretty rough keeping the numbers stable that way.
I would leave the pH alone. Still plenty of fish you can keep!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks that's what I have decided but I really value your thoughts and was curious if I was correct in my thinking. It is very cool that you try to answer fans questions. 👍
How about breeding them? If you had a large school of both would they school together?
Breeding is the same. They can sort of school together. 😀
cardinals all the way! much prettier and hardier (in my experience) than neons.
Hey, I’d really love to run this stocking plan by you and your viewers for review as I’m in the process of setting up my first tank.
20G High, Heavily Planted
M & F Honey Gourami Pair
1 Bristlenose Pleco
And 10-12 tetras but I dont know if cardinals, neons or embers would be best.
Looks good! Pick the tetra you like the most out of the three 😀
@@PrimeTimeAquaticsI think I’m going to go with embers after watching some more of your videos because my tap water is a little on the hard side for cardinals or neons and I don’t really want the extra trouble of using distilled water and botanicals in such a tank. Thanks for all the guides!
Can they be mixed ?
Sure
@@PrimeTimeAquatics are they good with angelfish ? I plan to do a planted tank for my angels and just trying to find good schooling fish to add with them.
Cardinal no contest
Neon Tetra 😅
first!
If you have hard water...none.
My water is liquid rock, with over 20 dGh, and I keept both. Cardinal Tetra, from a group of 20, survivors zero. Then I swich to Neon Tetra, heard there were more forgiving with water hardness, tried to have 100 of them, until I got a bad batch that introduced neon disease in my tank, lost about 80% of my neon population, got 15-20 left. but they are the last, I will not be buying any more of them. I know that is common advice that is best to buy neon tetras from a local breeder, but guess what...if you live in an area with hard water...there will be no local breeder. 🙁
But still want to keep tetras, so I'm making the swich to Rasbora, with those, as many as you put in the tank, is as many as you are gone get, losses are rare if any. And maybe some black neon tetras, if they will be available (when they were available, I've ignore them, cuz neon tetra red and shiny, black lame...if only I knew 😐)
Perhaps look into the Kerri tetras, aka royal/emperor tetras?
@@laattardo I like emperor tetras, but they are not available in my area.🤔 And while I see that they are somewhat tolerant to hard water, hardness: 18 - 215 ppm according to their species profile, getting them from an external source is risky when I don't know if the water they were breed/raised is compatible with mine. 🤔
When it comes to buying fish, I'm very dependant of the local breeders/sellers, because they are the only ones that I can be sure they have water parameters similar to mine.
@@ragnos28 I can understand that. My water is fairly neutral but has a very high GH.
Ya - that’s really hard water for sure!
CARDINAL ALWAYS
Everyone says Cardinals are much tougher
Just depends on where they are sourced?