Neon fish

Usage examples of tetra.

Bone putty is a mixture of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate and tetra calcium phosphate.

Three hundred pounds of didrachmas, deca drachmas and tetra drachmas worth millions.

Or perhaps it was the moment she came downstairs and saw him feeding one of the neon tetras to the computer.

There mournfull Cypresse grew in greatest store,And trees of bitter Gall, and Heben sad,Dead sleeping Poppy, and blacke Hellebore,Cold Coloquintida, and Tetra mad,Mortall Samnitis, and Cicuta bad,With which th'vniust Atheniens made to dyWise Socrates, who thereof quaffing gladPourd out his life, and last PhilosophyTo the faire Critias his dearest Belamy.

For a couple of years, for example, my dad had worked in a regular pet store, selling neon tetras and spaniels to wide-eyed children who would lose interest in them as soon as they got them home.

He gets home late, feeds his neon tetras sprinkles of ground-up, freeze-dried poor people, chides us all for not exhibiting more enterprise, and then sleeps.