Serpae tetra
Hyphessobrycon eques
Blood red and restless; it will not leave a long-finned neighbor alone.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 4 cm
- Smallest tank
- 80 cm
- Temperature
- 22–27 °C
- Temperament
- Semi-aggressive
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Busy
- Water layer
- Mid water
- Care
- Easy
- Group
- Happiest in a group of 12 or more
- Coral
- Reef safe
These numbers are LumaReef simulation data, not a real aquarium care guide.
Which tank it fits
- Nano60 cm · 65 litresToo small
- Standard90 cm · 180 litres60 of them
- Wide120 cm · 300 litres100 of them
- Living room180 cm · 650 litres216 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres400 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Black neon tetra
- Glowlight tetra
- Otocinclus
- Sparkling gourami
- Cardinal tetra
- Lemon tetra
- Penguin tetra
- Harlequin rasbora
- Honey gourami
- Clown killifish
- Odessa barb
- Emperor tetra
- Lambchop rasbora
- Zebra danio
- Cherry barb
- Endler's livebearer
- Platy
- Forktail blue-eye
- Panda corydoras
- Galaxy rasbora
- Julii corydoras
- Pygmy corydoras
- Ember tetra
- Silver hatchetfish
- and 23 more species
Caution
- Neon tetraCrowding the same layer
- Multies shell dwellerBoth semi-aggressive
- Glowlight danioCrowding the same layer
- Green neon tetraNarrow shared temperature range
- Rummynose tetraCrowding the same layer
- Chocolate gouramiNarrow shared temperature range
- Dwarf pufferBoth semi-aggressive
- Dwarf chain loachCrowding the same layer
- Black skirt tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Diamond tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Green kubotai rasboraCrowding the same layer
- Tiger barbBoth semi-aggressive
- Hillstream loachNarrow shared temperature range
- Neon dwarf rainbowfishCrowding the same layer
- Paradise fishNarrow shared temperature range
- Checkerboard cichlidNarrow shared temperature range
- Gold barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Dwarf gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Cockatoo cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Demasoni cichlidCrowding the same layer
- Rosy barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Boesemani rainbowfishCrowding the same layer
- Turquoise rainbowfishCrowding the same layer
- Yellow lab cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Red zebra cichlidCrowding the same layer
- Denison barbCrowding the same layer
- JulidochromisBoth semi-aggressive
- African butterflyfishBoth semi-aggressive
- SwordtailBoth semi-aggressive
- Three spot gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Yoyo loachBoth semi-aggressive
- Peacock cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Red rainbowfishCrowding the same layer
- Firemouth cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Rainbow sharkBoth semi-aggressive
- SeverumBoth semi-aggressive
- Kissing gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Clown loachNarrow shared temperature range
- FrontosaBoth semi-aggressive
- OscarBoth semi-aggressive
- Bala sharkCrowding the same layer
- Black ghost knifefishBoth semi-aggressive
- KoiNarrow shared temperature range
Not together
- GuppyThese two do not get along
- DiscusWater temperatures do not overlap
- White cloud mountain minnowWater temperatures do not overlap
- Threadfin rainbowfishThese two do not get along
- German blue ramWater temperatures do not overlap
- Betta (Siamese fighting fish)These two do not get along
- Congo tetraThese two do not get along
- Freshwater angelfishThese two do not get along
- Fancy goldfishWater temperatures do not overlap
Same familyTetras and characins
- Neon tetraParacheirodon innesi
- Cardinal tetraParacheirodon axelrodi
- Green neon tetraParacheirodon simulans
- Ember tetraHyphessobrycon amandae
- Rummynose tetraPetitella rhodostoma
- Black neon tetraHyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
- Lemon tetraHyphessobrycon pulchripinnis
- Black skirt tetraGymnocorymbus ternetzi
- Congo tetraPhenacogrammus interruptus
- Glowlight tetraHemigrammus erythrozonus
- Diamond tetraMoenkhausia pittieri
- Penguin tetraThayeria boehlkei
- Emperor tetraNematobrycon palmeri
- Silver hatchetfishGasteropelecus sternicla