I'm not going to name the aquatics I visited today and neither I visited are bad stores, but please retailers, use some common sense!
Id been emailing around as X-Ray Tetra seem to be hard to come by at the present time.
Two South East fish shops replied they had them in stock, first store had quite a few in fact, mixed with a new species of Cardinal Tetra ...covered in white spots.
So onto the next store who had listed them in stock. Looking around the aquatics, I struggled to find any X-Ray Tetra, browsing around there was quite a few empty tanks or duplicate collections of fish for sale. I don't know about all of you but noticed of late, presumably due to the pandemic this seems to be the norm in many aquatics. Waiting for a member of staff to become free, I saw a aquarium full of blood red Serpae Tetras and very fine fish they were too. I have kept them but as a species only 24 x 12 aquarium years ago because I soon found how aggressive they can be to other species and I always feel they don't make a very good community fish. Laying a the bottom of this aquarium was a few decease fish, which is always a shame to see but these weren't Serpae's but reading the labels were X-Ray Tetra, Horsehead Loach - Acantopsis dialuzona (of which I couldn't see any living specimens) and in the top left hand corner were three, very small, pale, nipped X-Ray Tetra with what must of been 50-70 Serpae's milling around them. I dread to think what hell the poor Loaches went through, maybe they buried themselves, can't say I'd blame them!
Now I don't normally rescue fish but on this occasion I did, the three fish are now residing very peacefully in quarantine.
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again we dont have the right requirements for them but that is a relatively expensive fish 
, I dont like driving round Northampton much).
