Vieja bifasciatus: Kim Hoả

Even though Hikari pellets are large (Medium size), very small fish can still eat them well, because:

- When they soften, the broken bits are very fine.
- Fine enough for the fry to eat but they don't dissolve and dirty the water.
- The flavor is very appealing. Aside from artemia, once fish have eaten Hikari for a while it's hard to get them to eat anything else.
- Rô Mỹ are greedy eaters. Pickier species may not take them.

My school of Vieja bifasciatus — I'm giving them the Vietnamese name Kim Hoả:
- Kim ("gold") for the very bright yellow 🌕 on the fish.
- Hoả ("fire") for the pink, like a flame 🔥 — not flaring too wildly but enough to give the gold its body.
- When the fire dies down it leaves ashes, standing for the black markings on the fish's body.