Tetra UK

26/09/2025

🐟 Pond Top Tip: Preparing for Autumn 🍂

When autumn arrives, your first job should be a partial water change. This removes excess nutrients and helps prepare your pond for the long off-season.

✅ Change around 30% of the water
✅ Top up with tap water (treated first!)

Always use a water conditioner like Tetra AquaSafe – it makes tap water safe for fish by:
💧 Neutralising heavy metals from domestic pipes
💧 Reducing harsh chlorine
💧 Adding protective colloids to shield the mucous layer and boost immune defences

Healthy water = healthy, happy pond fish.

Stay tuned for our next autumn pond tip!

22/09/2025

🍂 First Day of Autumn Project: Botanicals for Your Aquarium!

Autumn is the perfect time to collect natural botanicals 🍁 to create a stunning blackwater scape in your tank. 😍

Not only do they add a beautiful, natural look, but the tannins and humic acids they release are antibacterial and antimicrobial — and don’t worry, your filter bacteria will be just fine! 👌

Look for alder cones, seed pods, bark, and twigs. Great leaves to collect include:
🌳 Oak, beech, sycamore, hazel, magnolia, plane tree, silver birch, and sweet chestnut.

💡Pro tip: Boil and soak your botanicals before adding them to your tank to remove bacteria and prevent floating.

Ready to bring autumn magic underwater? Watch the full Amazon biotope build in our Tetra 80L aquarium by MR Brightfryed

Autumn is the perfect time to collect natural botanicals 🍁 to create a stunning blackwater scape in your tank 😍Not only do they add a beautiful, natural lo...

18/09/2025

Think back to your very first fish… 🐠💭
What was it, and do you still keep that species today?

We’d love to hear your first fishkeeping love story in the comments❤️

16/09/2025

🐟 Meet the Red Panda Barb (aka Melon Barb)!

Mature males develop a stunning red-pink colour, especially when showing off for the ladies! ❤️🎨

Feeding them plant-rich food with carotenoids, like Tetra Pro Colour, helps keep their colours bright and vibrant. 🌿✨

These peaceful, active barbs are perfect for community planted tanks and get along with many popular species – from tetras and livebearers to catfish and loaches.

🌍 Originally from Southern India, they grow up to 7cm and thrive in groups of 6 or more, schooling happily with other barbs and small fish.

Ideal conditions:
🌡 Temperature: 22° - 26° C
💧 pH: 6.0 - 7.5
🧪 KH: 3 - 12 dKH
🏠 Minimum tank size: 100 litres (for 6-8 fish)

Tiny white pimples can be seen on the snouts of the males. These are called breeding tubercles (AKA spawning rash), and can be seen on many other male cyprinid fishes at breeding time. They are made of keratin (like hair and fingernails) and are important in the spawning process.

What barbs are you keeping? Drop your favourites below! 👇

14/09/2025

Not all fish food is created equal!🐠

Our Aquatics Expert explains why the right mix of protein matters 👇

Not all fish food is created equal 🐠The right protein mix keeps your fish healthy, vibrant, and full of energy – but why does it matter so much?Our Aquatics...

11/09/2025

🤫 When choosing the perfect spot for your aquarium, quieter really is better!

🚫 Avoid placing your tank in direct sunlight ☀️, near doors 🚪, or busy areas with lots of foot traffic 👣.

🔊 Keep it away from speakers 🎵 — vibrations travel through water and can stress your fish 🐟.

✋ And please, no tapping on the glass! What sounds like a gentle tap to us is like a jet engine roar ✈️ to your fish.

🐠 Fish have sensitive ears 👂 and a vibration-sensing system called the lateral line running along their bodies. Since sound travels better in water 💧 than air, loud noises can be very unsettling for them.

📍 Where’s your tank located? Let us know!

08/09/2025

🌿 Pond Top Tip: Autumn Plant Care 🍂

As summer ends, trim back any pond plants that have grown excessively.
When lily leaves and flowers die back, they can decay and add to the sludge at the bottom of your pond.

💡 To keep your pond healthy, treat existing sludge with Tetra Sludge Remover – it helps break down organic matter and keeps water quality high for your fish.

Healthy plants, healthy pond! 🐟

05/09/2025

🤝 Friendship Month Special – Fish Compatibility Tips 🐠

Building a peaceful freshwater community aquarium? Keep these essentials in mind:

💧 Water Values – Test your tap water hardness and choose fish that thrive within pH, hardness and temperature values you are able to maintain

📏 Size – Pick fish of similar size. Even peaceful species may eat smaller tankmates if they can fit in their mouths.

👥 Quantity – Active fish like tiger barbs, tetras, and danios behave better in large schools. Keep schooling fish in groups of 6+, but avoid overstocking.

⚡ Behaviour – Some species are known tail-nippers, so research before buying.

For the best mix, always get stocking advice from a trusted aquatics retailer.

💬 What’s in your community aquarium?

01/09/2025

🌍♻️ Did you know? Our Tetra food tubs are now made from 100% recycled plastic* 🙌
It’s a small change with a big impact — reducing waste, reusing resources, and moving us closer to our goal of zero waste.

Better for the planet. Better for fishkeepers. 💙🐠

*for our new packaging such as Pond, TetraMin and Goldfish. More coming soon.

23/08/2025

In the 1980’s Tetra created the innovative Pond Sticks that float on your pond’s surface so you can watch your fish eating undisturbed.

We’ve been continually improving 📈 the formula since to make it one of our go-to summer 🌞 foods for the daily feeding of all pond fish.

Its optimum nutrient composition provides all-around, biologically balanced nutrition.

✔️ Suitable for all pond fish.
✔️ Softens quickly for easy feeding.
✔️ The essential nutrients, trace elements, vitamins and carotenoids provide balanced nutrition, healthy growth and a strong immune system.
✔️ Highly digestible for low water pollution and better water quality.

👉 Discover more: https://www.tetra.net/en-gb/products/tetra-pond-sticks

19/08/2025

📸 Love snapping pics of your fish but not quite getting the shot you imagined?
Here are our top tips to help you capture your aquarium at its best — no stress, no reflections, just beautiful fish!

✨ Tetra’s Photography Day Checklist:
✔️ Clean the glass and remove dead foliage for a crystal-clear view
✔️ Watch your fish to learn their swimming patterns
✔️ Use a tripod for steady, sharp shots
✔️Start with slow movers like plecos for easier practice
✔️Avoid flash — light the whole tank gently instead
✔️ Experiment with angles to minimise reflections
✔️ Shooting manually? Try a shutter speed of 1/125 sec

Want more expert advice? 📲 Tap the link in our bio to read the full blog.

17/08/2025

Fish Food Quality: What to look for?

How do you know what to look for on the label of the fish food you’re buying?