My Nature Aquarium

Questions & answers

1. Jessica says:

   01/15/11

   What is the difference between jumbo neon tetra and cardinal tetra?

   Besides their patterns. On petsmart's site, the jumbo fish are said to only get to 2'' and the cardinal to 3''. And supposedly, the black neon tetra are the same as the jumbo neon? Do the neon...

   Dan M says:

   All three of these fish will mix, although they will tend to school in separate groups. Black neons are a different species, not a man-made strain of fish. Jumbo neons are just older neons. The problem with them...

Google Books

1. 

   Conservation and management of ornamental fish resources of the Rio Negro basin, Amazonia, Brasil

   2011

   ISBN 8574010839,9788574010830

   301 pages

   

   ABSTRACT The discovery of the cardinal tetra prompted the most profound change
   in my life, and probabi/ the tropical fish hobby as well. ...
2. 

   Blue genes

   Published by Earthscan / James & James 2011

   ISBN 1844071065,9781844071067

   231 pages

   

   The cardinal tetra accounts for over 80 per cent of ornamental fish exports from
   Brazil ... The trade in ornamentals (primarily cardinal tetra and discus) ...
3. 

   Aquarium Fishes

   Published by Bantam Books 1976

   ISBN 0553028960,9780553028966

   159 pages

   

   Cardinal Tetra (Cheirodon axelrodi) Family Characidae The cardinal tetra is
   probably the most widely known tetra. ...