The glass bloodfin tetra, ''Prionobrama filigera'', is a species of Characid fish native to the
Amazon River basin of
South America
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Nutrition
In the wild this fish eats mainly aquatic insect
larva
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e and
crustaceans
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In an aquarium they will readily adapt to a diet of commercial dry fish foods, but benefit from a variety of food including both live and frozen foods such as daphnia and bloodworms.
Aquarium care
The glass bloodfin tetra is a community tank fish that would do best in a group of at least 8 fish. A well planted aquarium with a volume of 15 Gallons (57 L) would make an ideal home for this species.
Breeding
''Prionobrama filigera'' will breed successfully in harder and more alkaline water than most tetra species. A pH of 7.3 and 10 degrees of hardness is suitable, but not the much harder water the adults can live in.
It 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 that will eat its own eggs.
References
* http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=12396
* http://www.bettatrading.com.au/Glass-Bloodfin-Tetra-Fact-Sheet.php
* http://www.fishchannel.com/freshwater-aquariums/species-info/keeping-and-breeding-the-glass-bloodfin.aspx
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Tetras
Freshwater fish of Brazil
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Freshwater fish of Ecuador
Freshwater fish of Peru
Fish of the Amazon basin
Fish described in 1870