Congo Tetra Photos

[Coradee]

Please use this topic to post your Congo tetra photos I'll leave it stickied so it appears at the top of the posts.

Please use your own photos, and not material from the internet.

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While your compliments on the photos are really appreciated, text-only posts will be removed after a while to keep the gallery pictures-only. If there is a discussion you do not want to lose, please start it again in a separate thread.

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[Ryngwrayth]

Didn’t see a thread just for pics. Here are a few of my boys.

 

[Ryngwrayth]

Team meeting

 

[Ryngwrayth]

Having Congos in your tanks means endless opportunities for viewing ART…

 

[Ryngwrayth]

Big boy

 

[Ryngwrayth]

Wednesday Congos

 

[Vix1987]

I really love the Congo tetra such an under rated fish , I keep 6 males 6 females atm

 

[Vix1987]

They are gorgeous! What size tank do you have and is t a species only?

They’re really starting to colour up I’ve added another female though because there are a couple of males that won’t let each others tails grow they test their pecking order a lot!. This is a 4ft tank but slightly more height than my other tank as these guys prefer that section of the water column. It’s not a species only, I’ve got a few different kinds atm , I really like the crytoheros I’ve got a pair of t-bar sajicias, myrnae cichlid a pair of rainbows. Red breast acara, electric acara and a polar parrot.

my plan is to move the polar parrot and acaras to my other 4/5ft tank who’s got my golden saum in (he’s not very forgiving so I’m not even attempting Congo tetra). So congos tank will just be crytos soon which is a nice contrast
I’m not sure if anyone else has found this but my congos are really interactive they don’t shy away at all and will come and have a look when you approach the tank. I really love the colours of the females too. It’s hard to capture on a picture but they really sparkle just as much as the males but more greeny colours. They are fun to feed too … rapid!! So I have to feed at two ends of the tank

 

[Ellebrius]

. I’m fairly new at this, started this past Summer. I have 3 tanks at the moment my first setup is a 37 gallon high that is the home to 3 pearl gouramis that mostly use the top part, 8 rummynose tetras that like the middle, 2 Bolivian rams female and some Panda and Pepper corys.
It’s heavily planted, no CO2, hbo and sponge filter. The second one is my Betta in a 5 gallon also planted and now I’m working on a 15 gallon Fluval Edge, I’m preparing it for Celestial Danios and different color shrimps. You will see the Fluval was the Betta’s tank before I moved him to the smaller one, it was too far for him to swim all the way to the top for air.

 

[bgarthe]

My “teenage” Congos. They’re just now coming into good coloration and, as they grow up, they’ll get even better. I’m SO glad I decided to try these guys after all my years of fish keeping. The 75g tank they’re in has 11 male Congos and 23 Cardinals along with some Corys.

And…..I have to be honest. I took about sixty pics to get about ten decent shots as these guys don’t sit around and pose for pics like my Angel fish does.

 

[bgarthe]

Got better pics recently….

 

[tornmean9]

a pic of some my congo tetra i have 8 of them

 

[bgarthe]

Time for some Gold Blue-Eyed Congo Tetra (Phenacogrammus aurantiaca) pics. These are newly acquired young adults. I believe they are all males. They are also a new species for me that I have drooled over for years and finally nabbed some.


And a few younger male Congo Tetras (Phenacogramus interruptus) pics. These males are also newly acquired……wish I never got rid of my first Congos a while ago.

Man…….these are still my overall favorites. Those caudal and dorsal fin fringes are to die for on a rainbow colored body.
My pics will get better…..and……the colors of the fish are going to get better with age too. Too bad I don’t improve with age….duh.

 

[bgarthe]

As far as I know, they’re just the regular BE Congo. Perhaps any variation you perceive could be the lighting as they do show degrees of blue at different angles to the lights as they swim. What specifically suggests a geographic variation?
They are around 2-21/2” long. Interestingly, the less the intensity of light, the more blue pops and yellow/gold body coloring shows. Brighter light =s much less colorful fish….almost boring. One would think more light would mean more color, but not w these guys……or, for that matter, the Congos either.

My young males are coming along nicely…..color, fin trim/fringe edging, and that elongated dorsal fin and caudal fin is developing. These fish are awesome. I can’t stop watching them.

 

[bgarthe]

More recent pics of my soon-to-be-adult male Congo Tets.

 

[bgarthe]

Some more LampEye Congo Tetras or Gold Blue Eyed Congo Tetra pics.

 

[bgarthe]

Some recent pics of young adult males. These do have to be among the awesomest fish.

 

[bgarthe]

Things fell into place (the fish had a period of calm) and I managed a few decent pics of Phenacogrammus aurantiacus (Gold Blue Eyed Congo Tetra).
These 7 are in my 75g tank with the 13 Phenacogrammus interruptus (Congo Tetra).

 

[bgarthe]

Better pics for Phenacogrammus interruptus. Note: as per requested, these are all my photos taken of my fish over the last few days. I am posting them so as to build up the pic inventory of two marvelous tetras.





And for Phenacogrammus aurantiacus…

 

[bgarthe]

And look……another pic. They’re getting used to me doing this.