Many people like to have fish for pets because they are low
maintenance, and can be very relaxing to watch them swim. Most first-time fish
enthusiasts like to keep cold water fish because they are cheap and most of the
different types of these fish will get along together. These fish have some
bright colours and have some very fancy fins, but they are mostly large
goldfish, and eventually switch to tropical fish to get a larger selection of
fish. But keeping tropical fish can be a bit of a gamble, the fish cost more
and some of them are very aggressive and will eat your other fish.
There are more different types of tropical fish for you to
choose from, and they have a larger variety of colours then cold water fish and
keeping them in an aquarium together with other tropical fish does not have to
be a gamble, it is not like a trip to the casino to play blackjack, if you do
things right there is no gambling involved at all.
The first thing you need to do is some reading before
purchasing any fish for your tank. Reading about fish will give you an idea of
what species of fish eat other fish, and which ones do not. It will also let
you know which meat-eating fish will live with what other fish, and make it
less of a gamble that you are just buying one fish an expensive meal.
Cichlids are a type of fish that eat other fish but they are
a school fish and prefer to be in a tank with other Cichlids, but you want all
the other Cichlids to be about the same size, or one day you will find several
fish missing and one fat fish swimming around slowly.
Cichlids are a surface to medium depth fish. This means they
will swim on the top and middle of the tank and will generally not go to the
bottom of the tank for very long.
So many people with Cichlids will get a bottom swimmer to
fill the tank out. A very popular type of bottom swimmers is catfish. There are
many different fish in the species of catfish. Some of these fish are non-aggressive
and do not get very big, but a fish like this may not be aggressive enough to
be in a tank of Cichlids.
You may want to get a more aggressive type of catfish, but
if you get a large one it will surely eat the Cichlids, but if it too small you
are gambling that the Cichlids will not pick its eyes out.
Just remember that no matter how much you read each fish
does have a personality of their own and no matter how much you read that one
fish will be friendly with another it putting them in an Aquarium together is hazardous.
There is always the possibility that some of your fish will
get eaten, but the only way to make keeping fish not a hazard is to keep each
fish in their own separate fish tank in the hope that this will keep them all
safe, but this will not make for happy fish. With trial and error, you will
learn what can live with what types of fish.
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