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Glowlight Tetra
Hemigrammus erythrozonus
Family: Characidae
📍 Essequibo River, Guyana
The glowlight tetra has a warm golden-orange iridescent stripe running the full body length, glowing like an ember in a planted tank. It is a peaceful, attractive schooling fish that pairs beautifully with dark substrates and dense planting.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – micro pellets, fine flake, daphnia, baby brine shrimp
- lifespan
- 2–4 years
- max size
- 4 cm (1.6 in)
- tank size
- 10 gallons minimum
- school size
- 8+
- temperament
- Peaceful, schooling
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.5–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 1–10 dGH
- temperature
- 72–82°F (22–28°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
77°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Mar high)