"NetMax" wrote in message
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"Dan White" wrote in message
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I have been posting about my lonely betta in the hot Eclipse 5 corner
tank I
got recently. I decided to get 3 neon tetras to go with the betta and
see
if they fought. I also got a compact fluorescent light and the temp
dropped
to 80 from about 84.

This sounds about right. The ballast still gets quite warm, but overall
it's much more efficient than an incandescent bulb.

Well anyway, the question was whether the betta would chase the tetras
around his tank. The answer seems to be "no." They pretty much bump
into
each other with no problem. The thing I didn't expect was that one of
the
tetras is terrorizing the other two! I might have to return that one.
They
all also have slightly concave or flat stomachs. I assume this is from
lack
of food at the lfs?

I would hold off on returning the 'rogue' Neon for a while. A new
environment is an opportunity to set the pecking order, so they might all
settle down soon. I used to feed Neon tetras frozen baby brine shrimp.
Fattened them up so that they could take larger foods. Staple food is
really insufficient (imo).
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Yeah, we'll wait and see. I just have 3 neons. Of course the Petsmart guy
told me to get at least six because they don't do well in small numbers and
most likely will die early. That sounded a bit exaggerated to me.

thanks,
dwhite