The dawn tetra, panda tetra, or ioParaguay tetra (''Aphyocharax nattereri'') comes from the

Rio Paraguay The Paraguay River (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, Ysyry Paraguái in Guarani) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. It flows about from its headwaters in ...

basin in

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and

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. It is a schooling fish; suitable temperatures for the Paraguay tetra are . This species is omnivorous with a strong preference for animal food. It will eat normal

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fish food, but much prefers live food. The dawn tetra is an

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

-scattering species.Paraguay tetra fact sheet
/ref> This tetra is very active and extremely aggressive towards fish of similar or smaller size or those that are slower moving. Not suitable for the community tank.

References

Aphyocharacini Tetras Fish described in 1882 Taxa named by Franz Steindachner {{Characidae-stub