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	Emperor tetras
Rob1619 Fish Addict Posts: 763 Kudos: 619 Votes: 626 Registered: 01-Sep-2004	Edited by Robby1619 I have just been to a LFS and there they had some emperor tetras. Iam just thinking that it might be another tetras because those i saw was pretty big around 5cm and the color was like silver/bronze color,I thought the emperor tetras was mostly black. Maybe those tetras i saw where stressed out? Robby I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.
Posted 03-Mar-2006 16:56
aquapickle27 Enthusiast Posts: 182 Kudos: 98 Votes: 55 Registered: 28-Jan-2006	At my LFS the emperors were silverish too, i dont know maybe ours are not classified correctly. †Aquapickle†
Posted 04-Mar-2006 03:43
jasonpisani Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 5553 Kudos: 7215 Votes: 1024 Registered: 24-Feb-2003	Emperor Tetra are silverish, with a brown & black stripe. http://www.flickr.com/photos/corydoras/ Member of the Malta Aquarist Society - 1970. http://www.maltaaquarist.com
Posted 04-Mar-2006 22:18
BruceMoomaw Mega Fish Posts: 977 Kudos: 490 Votes: 0 Registered: 31-Dec-2002	Yep, those were definitely the classic Emperor Tetra. The males have a lovely blue-purple sheen (although it's not as intense as the glow on adult male Blue Emperors), while young ones and adult females are a rather dingy gray-purple color. (The males also have bright sky-blue eyes, while the females have green ones.) And as adults they are indeed fairly large. In my experience they're solitary but non-aggressive, and intermediate among Tetras as far as delicacy is concerned.
Posted 05-Mar-2006 05:09
longhairedgit Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005	Edited by longhairedgit Delicacy lol. Makes it sound like someone has a recipe for them I did see pearl gourami paste at a chinese food shop once . It looked like peanut butter. Yechh!
Posted 06-Mar-2006 14:04
BruceMoomaw Mega Fish Posts: 977 Kudos: 490 Votes: 0 Registered: 31-Dec-2002	Well, before the aquarium trade took off (and maybe afterwards), Thais used to eat Harlequin Rasboras and Clown Loaches on a wholesale basis. (The Rasboras were ground up and made into fish cakes.)
Posted 07-Mar-2006 05:21
Beardude Big Fish Posts: 309 Kudos: 26 Votes: 2 Registered: 11-Mar-2001	Mmmmmm....clown loach
Posted 07-Mar-2006 14:09


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