Community Service

[FreshyGirl27]

Every good Aquarist knows mismatched fish chase, eat, starve and stress each other. That is why I made this page.
Here are some charts and compatability trees: Mollies }
Platies }Livebearers, Tropical
Guppies }
Swordtails}

Go With
Dwarf Gouramies
Tetras
Catfish
Other Tropical, Community Fish

NOT
Angel Fish
Bettas
Gouramies
Barbs
Goldfish(for Temp. and food reasons)
Loach
Arowana
Fin nippers



This topic will be continued in Community Service #2. Watch for it!

 

[Gytas]

thanks

 

[Wills]

Its a good idea to do these kind of things but your groupings are really vague and miss out a lot of fish. So like you say the livebearers go okay with catfish and at a guess I would say you mean cory catfish but then you have some midsized predatory catfish that would probably eat guppies and equally I have heard of people having issues between guppies and dwarf gourami.

Then on the other side of things youve grouped all the other gourami together and all the barbs together and there are 3 or 4 species of gourami I can think of that would not be a problem with those fish (thick lipped, snake skin, moonlight and pearl) that would be fine with any of them. And same for barbs when you say they are not suitable I would guess you mean tiger barbs but there must be a good 10 species of barbs that would be pretty unproblematic with them all including guppies as well.

Also while I agree that guppies have to have some careful considerations with the tank mates, platies and sword tails are some of the most versatile fish around. I have seen platies mixed with bettas with good success rates and also I have seen swordtails and platies mixed with large aggressive central american cichlids like veijas as dithers to match their natural setting - the reason these fish give birth so quick and to live young is because they live in waters with large fish eating cichlids so they have to breed quickly and grow quickly to keep the species alive.

Im not getting at you because I think its a really good thing you have done this to help people out but perhaps widen your options a bit and rather than include a term like catfish split it to a few types like - cory catfish - predatory catfish - humbug and banjo catfish - pleco and loricade catfish. That way people would get a quicker more direct way of realising what fish mix well with the ones you are describing.

Wills

 

[Flagtail]

My community is of predators and monsters of the Amazon!!