Neon tetras are almost always found in schools. They move in unison as one mass of brightly colored red and blue stripes. They always stay together and you almost never find any neon tetras by themselves. They instinctively follow each other to protect from predators who have trouble targeting a single fish amongst the bright colored stripes. But there is one exception.
I seem to have the only individually minded neon I have ever heard of. When the school goes one way, he wanders off in another direction. He just does his own thing without a care in the world. Occasionally one of the others will start following him around. And this morning when I checked my fish tank, I found 2 neons in the baby pen. I have a small mesh pen in the corner of my tank so the baby fish can live in the big tank with the rest of the fish but won't get eaten. The walls go about a centimeter above the water line so the fish can't get in or out. I'm guessing the neons both must have jumped the barrier and landed in the pen. I wasn't worried about them eating the babies because their mouths are so tiny, but I still couldn't believe they made it in there.
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