Golden Tetra (Hemigrammus rodwayi)
Freshwater Schooling Community Fish • Active Peaceful Swimmer • Beginner Friendly Aquarium Fish
📋 Description
The Golden Tetra is a freshwater schooling characin valued for its attractive appearance and calm, easygoing schooling behaviour in a community aquarium.
Known for a distinctive golden-bronze sheen across its body, believed in wild specimens to be partly caused by a natural skin fungus that also occurs in some related tetra species, though captive-bred stock displays the same golden colouration reliably. A hardy, easygoing schooling fish.
With a proper-sized school and stable water conditions, it thrives as a Schooling Community Display Fish.
💡 Highlights
🐟 Active Schooling Species: Best kept in a group of 6 or more

🧠 Hardy & Adaptable: Suits a range of stable community tank conditions

🌿 Excellent Community Fish: Compatible with similarly sized peaceful species

✨ Distinctive Appearance: A standout addition to a planted community tank