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Flame Tetra (Freshwater Fish)

It is silver from the top and becomes red in color after silver. It has two black up and down strips behind gills. It eats flake, live and fresh foods. It belongs to family " Characidae ". It is a peaceful fish. It likes to live in coastal rivers. It swims in all the parts of the aquarium.


Glowlight Tetra (Freshwater Fish)

It has black body color. There is a horizontal strip on its body which looks like glow. That's why, it is called Glowlight Tetra. It is a beautiful Tetra. It is a peaceful fish. It belongs to the family " Characidae ". It eats all kinds of fresh, live and flake foods. It prefers to live in the rivers.


Glowlight Tetra (Freshwater Fish)

It has golden fins which are tipped white in color. The upper and bottom parts of its tail are red with a black spot inside them. It is a peaceful fish. It belongs to the family " Characidae ". It eats all kinds of fresh, live and flake foods. It lives in coastal creeks and food plains of rivers.


Headstander (Freshwater Fish)

It has dark brown or black color of its body. It has two white to reddish strips on its body. Fins are transparent. It belongs to family " Anostomidae ". Headstander is a peaceful fish. Its foods are flake, live and fresh foods. It is found in coastal rivers and river basins. It grows up to 6 inches in size.


Lemon Tetra (Freshwater Fish)

It is a beautiful fish having golden yellow-orange body color. Its body is transparent. The front part of anal fins is yellow with black edges. It is a peaceful fish. It belongs to family " Characidae ". It eats all kinds of fresh, live and flake foods including blood worms and brine shrimp. It lives in the rivers basins.


Longsnout Distichodus (Freshwater Fish)

They have orange gold body with black vertical bars. The color of tail is tinged red. They have a forked fin. They are aggressive fish. They are member of family " Citharinidae ". They eat vegetative foods. Longsnout Distichodus eat flake and small pellet, frozen, live foods too. They prefer to live in large rivers where they enjoy schooling.


Marbled Hatchetfish (Freshwater Fish)

They have white and black marble color on their body which look like strips on their body. They belong to family " Gasteropelecidae ". They are peaceful fish. Flake foods are not their complete diet. They eat mosquito larvae, fruit flies, brine shrimp, blood worms and small vinegar larvae. They are found in middle and upper layer of rivers.


Neon Tetra (Freshwater Fish)

They are beautiful fish. There are different strips of different colors on their body. The red strip is next to electric blue neon strip on their body. They belong to the family " Characidae ". They are peaceful fish. They eat all kinds of fresh, live, flake and ground foods. Neon Tetra prefer to live in the basins rivers.


Bentos Tetra (Freshwater Fish)

They have pink to deep salmon body color. They have faint grayish shoulder patch. They have red markings on their fins. They are peaceful fish. They belong to family " Characidae ". They eat live and flake foods. They need high vitamin foods. They live in creeks of the rivers. They inhabit all areas of the aquarium.


Payara (Freshwater Fish)

It has silver body color. Its fins are semi-transparent. Fins are black color ans some Pyara fish have white edges on their fins. It is member of family " Cynodontidae ". It is an aggressive fish. It eats only live foods. It prefers to live in the clear and fast flowing water of the rivers. Its size is 4 feet.


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