Serpae Tetra Veiltail

The Serpae Tetra Veiltail is one of the more colorful tetras that sometimes gets a bad reputation for being a fin nipper. This behavior is usually brought on because the Serpae Tetra is not being kept in schools of 6 or more. Provided that you have the room for a small school of these fish, the Serpaes can make a good addition to a community tank.

The Serpae Tetra has a brown body, almost amber colored with a black dorsal fin and red caudal and anal fins. They look really good in an aquarium with a lush growth of live aquarium plants.

You can usually find them swimming in a shoal in the middle to bottom regions of your tank. They should leave other fish alone and chase each other playfully around the tank.

Serpae Tetras will accept nearly all fish food such as flakes, frozen, live and freeze dried.