The black skirt tetra is a common fish that is widely available for purchase.

Hobbyists often provide live foods such as daphnia and mosquito larvae, and frozen foods like bloodworms.

The species reaches sexual maturity at about two years of age.
Like most characins, this species spawns by intermittently releasing and fertilizing eggs among plants.
It frequently eats its own eggs, so keepers remove the fish after spawning.

The black tetra was also used to make genetically modified fish sold as GloFish (fluorescent colored fish).
The black skirt tetra is a common fish that is widely available for purchase.
Hobbyists often provide live foods such as daphnia and mosquito larvae, and frozen foods like bloodworms.
The species reaches sexual maturity at about two years of age. Like most characins, this species spawns by intermittently releasing and fertilizing eggs among plants. It frequently eats its own eggs, so keepers remove the fish after spawning.
The black tetra was also used to make genetically modified fish sold as GloFish (fluorescent colored fish).
Black tetra