Tetras and Characids
Silver Dollar
Metynnis hypsauchen
Photo: Sesamehoneytart · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–28 °C
- pH5.5–7.5
- Minimum tank300 l
- Adult size15 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- Lives in a groupof 5 or more
- TemperamentPeaceful
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Serrasalmidae
- Origin
- Amazon and Paraguay basins
- Size
- 15 cm
- Temperature
- 24 – 28°C
- pH
- 5.5 – 7.5
- GH
- 2 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Water type
- tropical freshwater
- Swimming level
- medium
- Behavior
- Pacific
- Minimum number of individuals
- 5
- Minimum aquarium size
- 300 L
- Diet
- herbivore (vegetables, spirulina, vegetable pellets)
- Reproduction
- oviparous
Notes: A herbivorous relative of piranhas, with a round, silvery body. It eats almost any plant, so the aquarium should be decorated with roots, rocks, or hardy plants such as Anubias.
