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The Flame Tetra, Hyphessobrycon flammeus, is a bright, colorful freshwater fish that brings a beautiful orange and yellow glow to a peaceful community aquarium. Also known as the Von Rio Flame Tetra, this species has been loved in the aquarium hobby for years thanks to its color, hardiness, and easygoing personality.
Flame Tetras stay small, usually reaching around 2 inches as adults, but they really stand out when kept in a group. Their warm orange body color looks especially good in planted tanks, darker aquascapes, and setups with driftwood or botanicals.
One of the reasons the Von Rio Flame Tetra is such a great beginner fish is its ability to adapt to a wide range of water parameters. They are peaceful, active, and do best in groups of 6 or more. The larger the group, the more comfortable they feel, and the better their natural schooling behavior looks in the tank.
While Flame Tetras are peaceful community fish, we would not recommend them for shrimp breeding tanks. They may leave larger adult shrimp alone, but baby shrimp are small enough to become an easy snack. If you are trying to grow a shrimp colony, this probably is not the best fish to add.
The Orange Von Rio Flame Tetra does well with other peaceful community fish like rasboras, corydoras, small tetras, danios, and other nonaggressive tank mates. They enjoy a planted aquarium with both open swimming space and areas to explore.
We feed our Flame Tetras a mix of frozen, live, and prepared foods including live baby brine shrimp, frozen daphnia, frozen baby brine, cyclops, and NorthFin flake foods.
I am no stranger when it comes to Flip Aquatics and cant say enough good things about them. The fish arrived quickly and in perfect health. I ordered 15 and got a few extra to cover any loss and of corse there wasn't any. After acclimation and introduction to the tank they colored up immediately and soon after they were off exploring their new home.
The fish were alive as promised but small as others received
beautiful addition to my planted tank
Amazing pop of color to add to your aquarium. Make sure to get at least 6 but the more the better with these fish.
As a first time customer, I guess I didn’t understand how to order. I have ordered from other companies but not had this issue. I wrote to this company about the error and received no response. I ordered what I thought was 3 tetras. I received 15. Nice fish but many more than I expected. Came well packed. All alive and Still alive!!!
This is my second order from Flip Aquatics, I absolutely love how they handle their livestock and the actual quality of the livestock. I ordered 20 von Rio tetras from them. They are doing wonderful and are schooling very well. There's signs of agression from them though, between them and my Cory cats which j find very strange.
But they have grown quite a bit since I got them and during feeding time these guys are like mini piranhas and I absolutely love em. I will definitely order from them again and would love it if they had more fish selection as well.
Fish arrived in good shape! This is totally dependent on the carrier being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
My fish arrived happy and healthy! This is my 2nd order from FLIP. The tetras were eatting and darting around exploring their new quarantine tank within 3 hours after arrival. They colored up quickly. Expect to add them to my tetra community tank soon. Very pleased with my purchases.
I love the color of these guys. They are really active in our tank and are often chasing each other around or just hanging out together. They are so fun to watch!
I bought 5 Von Rio’s a week ago, ever since putting them in my tank one has died and two other fish have died as well as a few more looking sick now. This tank has been healthy for months beforehand. Will NOT be buying or recommending here again.
Hi Rose!
We are so sorry to hear you had a loss with one of your fish from us. We provide a 30+ day quarantine and offer a 100% live arrival and 100% health guarantee on all our livestock. Please email us at store@flipaquatics.com so we can assist you with your fish.
Amanda
These are Hardy fish and are in my planted co2 tank. I am always afraid to add fish in this tank because I run a 1.4ph drop, I have excellent surface agitation but it’s easy to gas out fauna. These guys took 2 days to acclimate and are now very happy in my tank. The colors are nice to see when they swim around. , and when it’s time to feed them they are fun to watch.
Hello Earl,
Thank you for your order and review! Glad to hear you're happy with the little guys! If you'd like to change this to a 5-star review, reach out to us at shipping@flipaquatics.com. Have a great day!
Sammikay
I just received these beautiful tetras and I’m in love! They actually glitter! Gorgeous! So far they are adapting well. I ordered 12 and received 14! I was so excited! Thanks Flip Aquatics for the beautiful fish, shrimp and snails!
We ordered fish and snails from this company. They arrived quickly, packaged very well, and with excellent integration instructions. We will definitely be back!
Only two of the five snails were alive. The fish all seemed fine.
