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Diamond Tetra
Moenkhausia pittieri
Family: Characidae
📍 Lake Valencia, Venezuela
The Diamond Tetra lives up to its name — under aquarium lighting the large, iridescent scales along its flanks flash with silver, gold, and green like faceted diamonds. Males develop impressive, elongated dorsal and anal fins as they mature. This Venezuelan species is undemanding and peaceful, making it an eye-catching alternative to more common tetras for medium-sized planted community tanks.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – flake food, micro pellets, bloodworms, daphnia
- lifespan
- 3–6 years
- max size
- 6 cm (2.4 in)
- tank size
- 20 gallons minimum
- school size
- 6+
- temperament
- Peaceful, schooling; males may nip at long-finned tankmates
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 4–12 dGH
- temperature
- 73–82°F (23–28°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
75°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Apr high)