How to select the right fish for your aquarium

Choosing and selecting the right fish that could live together in harmony in a community aquarium is sometimes a complicated process because there are many things to consider and it basically involves some basic research and work.

The instructable here is meant to share the idea and hopefully it help you to make the right decision. More information can also be found at http://allabout-aquariumfish.blogspot.com/

Step 1 Research and Info finding

The first step towards your research is to find out as much information as possible about the living condition suitable for the fish. There are different sources which you can refer to and all these are easily available from the internet or library.

Comments

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Most beginning aquarium owners are soon overwhelmed with the large number and variety of decisions required when setting up a new aquarium.
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[WhyHello]

Will Betta FIsh attack all cleaner fish?

[koebwil]

they generally attack nothing but bettas, they are very good in community tanks with tetras or other community fish, the rule is 1 betta per tank or they will kill each other.

[victorsmith]

I think, you have to keep male betta in separate tank, there is no issue with female betta...

[koebwil]

Male bettas are fine in community tanks so long as there is only one and it depends on the temperament of the fish, my best friend has one in a 15 gallon with some black skirts and an ancistrus pleco. You can do more than one with females, but if you just want one the males look way cooler.

[johnhutch]

Common Plecs may well get big eventually but the key word to remember is "eventually" not that I believe its nice to breed fish that will get too big for the tank but for example I took 2 Common plecs off a friend who had a much smaller tank and one I gave to Bristol Zoo when he grew too big and the other I still have happily in my 128L tank. He'll be fine until he's more than 7" long.

It's not the greatest Idea to 'buy' common plecs but adopting them I think is fine provided you've got somewhere that will look after them when they're big and demand more space.

[bassmonkey]

it woul help a whole @#$# of a lot more if you actually noted info like (for example) a plecostomus gets 24" and you need at leat a 20 gallon with plenty of rocks and algae. :)

[bassmonkey]

it was just and example, gee

[Nebraska G]

please tell me you are not talking about a common pleco? a dwarf pleco species you could probably get away with (they grow to be about 4-7 in.) but, the common would require a much larger tank (55 gal. minimum) the general rule of thumb is 2 gallons to every inch of fish. how long have you kept fish?

[manlyfish]

actually its 1 gall per fish but first you have to have the min gall
for example you have like 6 guppies, and 3 panda cories
guppy=10 gall atleast
panda cory=15 gall
and all your fish are 2 inches long so you so 6+3=9+15=24 so you would need a 24 tank but thats just a guesstiment different fish have diff requirements and it may depend upon their personalty some fish might be fast and adventerous while others may be slow and content behind a rock its pretty hard to tell but always have as much room as possible so if you ever see that really cool fish on sale...hehehe just research first

[sockyee]

Ever since I was 12 ;)
Dwarf catfish like the otocinclus does not need much space and you could probably get away with 20-gallon aquarium size. Probably this applies as well to the medium sized albino corydoras.