Red Phantom Tetra

[zenryoku]

I heard of them from a profile on black phantom tetras. Has anyone seen one? I have yet to find one in a fish store. If they exist I would love to have some.

[Gelo_USA]

I have one black phantom but I got it by mistake.... I dnt knw about the red ones never heard about it......
i got my black phantom by mistake... I was getting some pristellas and it came with them I just realized when I was acclimating them...

[xoolooxunny]

I've seen them quite frequently here over in PA, the philadelphia area. I only have a couple black phantoms tho.

[AquaQueen]

I have a pair of black phantom tetras. I never heard of or seen red ones. If there is such a thing I bet they'd be pretty. Here is a pic of one of my Black Phantom's.

[AquaQueen]

I found a link to some pictures of the red phantom tetras and they are sooooo pretty. I am on the look out I want a pair of them now.....lol http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Megalamphodus_sweglesi.php

[Gelo_USA]

wow they are really nice..

here is my phantom... I was going to return it to the pet shop since I got it by mistake but he/she schools with the other pristella tetra so I decided to keep it....
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/932/imgp1159ox4.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imgp1159ox4.jpg) http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2278/imgp1173dp9.th.jpg (http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imgp1173dp9.jpg)

[bettaboy691]

here in the UK, my lfs often sells red phantom tetra, not as much as black phantom tetra though, i have 5 of both in my 55 gallon, they both shoal loosly together and look really pretty

[AquaQueen]

nice pics Gelo...I love the way the phantom's look in pictures so much better then the red eye tetras...at least I think so.

[Gelo_USA]

thnkss... I had to take like 100pics to get those OK LOL
they dnt ever stop moving around hahahah and the ones I managed to get of him were all blurried... its hard to take pics of fish

[KBlane]

You know, I was on another forum recently looking for the Reds also. I've got a school of 7 Black Phantoms and I thought the "contrast" of color, but similarity in body type would be striking.

I can't really find anyone in this region of the US that sells them. (I'm in KY). Good luck finding them, and if you ever locate them--say, from an on-line dealer--gimme a shout, because I could squeeze a few into my tank (or alway upgrade, right?).

Thank,
K. Blane

[RobbieG]

We get a lot of serpe tetras here in New England that look a lot like the Red Phantoms (But browner). I have 6 of each (serpe and black phantoms) in my 72 both kinds stick together and are quite active.

I would love to come across a group of the reds!