Brilliant Rasboras
Brilliant Rasboras
Description
The Brilliant Rasbora or Redtail Rasbora is a small Minnow type fish, silver in colour with a black line from nose to tip and a red tail. They grow up to 2.5 inch and live between 2-5 years. They are native to South East Asia and Africa and there are around 70 different species.
Housing
The temperature of the tank should be kept at 72-80 (ph 6.0-7.2) With a dark bottom substrate and live plants should be used in the tank as Rasboras will not harm them and like to hide among them for safety, an ideal plant for the aquarium is the Crytocaryne plant as this is found in their natural habitat.
These fish are shoaling fish and should be purchased in groups in order to shoal, they are also very strong swimmers therefore they should be given plenty of swimming water which must be well filtered with regular partial water change.
The Brilliant Rasboras can be kept with Mollies, Moons, Tetras, Catfish and other Rasboras as these fish all have a similar gentle nature.
Feeding
The Redtail Rasbora can be fed a variety of foods, flakes, live and frozen foods and occasionally vegetables they like to be fed a couple of times per day.
