Black skirt tetra
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi
Loud and confident; kept in too few, it goes looking for fins to nip.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 6 cm
- Smallest tank
- 75 cm
- Temperature
- 20–26 °C
- Temperament
- Semi-aggressive
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Moderate
- 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 litres36 of them
- Wide120 cm · 300 litres60 of them
- Living room180 cm · 650 litres130 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres240 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Guppy
- Neon tetra
- Silver hatchetfish
- Pearl danio
- Hillstream loach
- Neon dwarf rainbowfish
- Bronze corydoras
- Julii corydoras
- Dwarf chain loach
- Emperor tetra
- Zebra danio
- Cherry barb
- Platy
- Celebes rainbowfish
- Forktail blue-eye
- Panda corydoras
- Paradise fish
- Odessa barb
- Lemon tetra
- Penguin tetra
- Harlequin rasbora
- Gold barb
- Honey gourami
- Demasoni cichlid
- and 33 more species
Caution
- Diamond tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Tiger barbBoth semi-aggressive
- Sterbai corydorasNarrow shared temperature range
- Betta (Siamese fighting fish)Narrow shared temperature range
- Rummynose tetraNarrow shared temperature range
- Threadfin rainbowfishNarrow shared temperature range
- Checkerboard cichlidNarrow shared temperature range
- Cardinal tetraNarrow shared temperature range
- Dwarf gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Cockatoo cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Serpae tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- White cloud mountain minnowNarrow shared temperature range
- Multies shell dwellerBoth semi-aggressive
- Green neon tetraNarrow shared temperature range
- Kuhli loachNarrow shared temperature range
- Dwarf pufferBoth semi-aggressive
- Chili rasboraNarrow shared temperature range
- Boesemani rainbowfishNarrow shared temperature range
- Yellow lab cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- KribensisNarrow shared temperature range
- Pearl gouramiNarrow shared temperature range
- JulidochromisBoth semi-aggressive
- African butterflyfishBoth semi-aggressive
- SwordtailBoth semi-aggressive
- Three spot gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Yoyo loachBoth semi-aggressive
- Peacock cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Red rainbowfishNarrow shared temperature range
- Moonlight gouramiNarrow shared temperature range
- Firemouth cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Freshwater angelfishBoth semi-aggressive
- Rainbow sharkBoth semi-aggressive
- Fancy goldfishNarrow shared temperature range
- SeverumBoth semi-aggressive
- Kissing gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Clown loachNarrow shared temperature range
- FrontosaBoth semi-aggressive
- OscarBoth semi-aggressive
- Black ghost knifefishBoth semi-aggressive
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
- Serpae tetraHyphessobrycon eques
- Congo tetraPhenacogrammus interruptus
- Glowlight tetraHemigrammus erythrozonus
- Diamond tetraMoenkhausia pittieri
- Penguin tetraThayeria boehlkei
- Emperor tetraNematobrycon palmeri
- Silver hatchetfishGasteropelecus sternicla