Freshwater Fish
Glass Bloodfin Tetra.
A near-transparent tetra with a flash of red in the tail — understated and elegant in a planted school. Peaceful and beginner-friendly; group them in a 20-gallon-plus tank where the light catches their bodies.
Prices change with size and with each shipment. Call to check today's price.
Call (814) 456-9445We keep this species. What's in our tanks changes with every delivery, so call (814) 456-9445 before you drive in. We never ship live animals.
- Condition
- new
- Fulfillment
- Local pickup — Erie, PA
We never ship fish, coral, or invertebrates — every animal here is one you meet in person. Each one is acclimated and health-checked in-house before it goes out into the display tanks. This is a species we keep, and what is swimming on any given day changes with the deliveries, so please call (814) 456-9445 before you drive in.
Care at a glance
What to know before you take one home.
- Care level
- Hardy, and forgiving of the swings a new tank throws at it.
- Temperament
- Leaves tankmates alone.
- Community
- Safe in a mixed tank with other peaceful species.
- Adult size
- 2.5"
- Min tank size
- 20 gallons
- Diet
- Eats meat and greens both.
- Scientific name
- Prionobrama filigera
Good tank mates
Peaceful and community-safe, so it fits a calm community of similarly-sized, easygoing fish. Good companions include other small peaceful tetras, rasboras, corydoras, peaceful gouramis, and livebearers like platies or guppies. Keep it in a school of six or more so it feels secure, and avoid fin-nippers, much larger or aggressive fish, and anything small enough for it to swallow or large enough to swallow it.
Good to know
The glass bloodfin tetra has a body so translucent you can see right through it, with the red color concentrated in its tail, where it flashes as the school moves together.
What is in the tanks and each animal’s temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 for pairing advice.
Good tankmates
Plays well with.
Species we’d keep in the same tank, with why each pairing works. What is in the tanks and each animal’s temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 for advice on pairing.
New to stocking a tank? Read our guide on which fish live together.
Bronze Cory
Peaceful, armored bottom-dwellers and proven compatible tankmates. Their typical range (68-82°F, pH 6.0-8.0) fully encompasses the Glass Bloodfin's parameters (72-82°F, pH 6.0-7.5), and they occupy the substrate level while Bloodfins cruise mid-to-upper water — zero resource competition.
Rummy-Nose Tetra
One of the similarly-sized characins that suit the Glass Bloodfin. Temp range 76-82°F and pH 5.5-7.0 overlap well with the Glass Bloodfin's parameters. Both are peaceful, schooling South American characins of similar size — no predation, fin-nipping, or aggression risk.
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Apistogramma
South American dwarf cichlids that prefer 75-82°F and pH 6.0-7.0, overlapping cleanly with the Glass Bloodfin's window. They hold the lower tank regions, leaving mid-to-upper space uncontested, and are generally non-aggressive toward open-water schoolers.
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Otocinclus Catfish
A small Loricariid catfish and a good Glass Bloodfin tankmate. Their preferred range (72-79°F, pH 6.0-7.5) is a near-perfect parameter match for the Glass Bloodfin. Small, peaceful algae grazers with no fin-nipping tendency and no size-mismatch predation risk.
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660 East 14th Street,
Erie, PA.
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