Coffey5030

which do you prefer?

AquarAdvent

Cardinal: I like more red!

Nate McFin

Ditto the Cardinal. I too like more red and less chance of NTD.

agabr123

i'm cardinal as well

Fishin Pole

With Pujols on your side, you gotta take the cards!!

kittenface14

I have never had Cardinals..the Neons I have no luck with so I would go with the Cardinals.

Butters

Cardinals most definatly. They have more color, are hardier if you acclimate them well and, they won't drop like flies out of nowhere.

Toxic

I have had a school of neons (14) for about 18 months now...I guess I got lucky

CoryMac

Cardinals lot bigger & prettier

Tom

Now, what kind of neon tetras are we talking about? Regular neons, gold neons, green neons, what kind of neons? Cause according to my fish supplier, the green neons are a lot better and a lot hardier then the regular neons, and the gold neons are also a lot more colorful then the regular ones. So it really depends on which neons we are talking about for my vote :P
Tom

Coffey5030

I had no idea there were so many varieties! I only knew of blue/red and black neons. I am referring to the red/blue classic neons in this case.

Paprika

I prefer cardinals too =)

Tom

Then if it's just the regular neons, I would have to say it's a tie. Cause they are both beatiful in their own way. I have a school of cardinals and I had a school of neons at one point, and when in a school, they both look stunning, and in a school together, they are amazing looking.
Tom

aquarist48

Cardinals....they tend to be a bit larger.

Jonah

Perversly Neons because they stay smaller

(And NTD is quite rare here abouts)

momo9700

i don't want to steal this thread, but what exactly is neon tetra disease?

Ricardo_NY1

I like cardinals, look forward to a small school soon, but my vote goes for the neon tetra.

daniomom

Cardinals are surprisingly hardier. I lost few zebra danios, a glofish & blackskirt tetra & not one Cardinal even had a problem...