twistedlink
Fish Fanatic
Okay, I know its annoying when a new member comes onto a forum (whatever the subject on whatever forum) and makes so many mistakes, asking questions etc, but please bear with me lol.
Basically, I want to do a study on fish breeding (mainly guppies) and using chi square techniques figure out all the dominant ressecive alelles etc for my university project, among other fish too.
While doing this, i may as well take it up as a hobby, I enjoy watching fish, and love the colourations of well made tanks.
Basically ive bought books and im well read up on general tank making and how to do things with the tank (obviously people have personal preferences of how they do things, but im sure i'll pick parts up and get better as i go along)
My main problem is books never say "never mix this exact species with this exact species"
it just states "occasional nipping to particular fish"
And i sit there thinking
"right...what fish? lol"
So basically ive made a list of fish i wish to keep (good livebearers along with hard egg laying ones to give myself a challenge)
I do understand not to add all these fish at once, and i know the process will be slow, im not planning on getting to terms with any major league stuff until at least 1-2 years-i do understand that.
Okay heres a list of starter fish i wish to keep and will add within a 3-5 month period of each other
Guppies (Obviously, as this is what i mainly want to study)
I don't know how many of these i want to keep, chances are the tank size im going to get is in the region of 30-40 gallons, and the amount of fish is based on sq cm from my understanding (or sq inches) so i wish to make sure the dimensions are suited towards more fish than less.
How many could i realistically keep?
I mean they have 20-40 babies in a good brood apparently, which will grow big and fill the tank quickly
I am of the knowledge that purchasing a good 3-5 mini tanks for quarantine/hospital/brood purposes is a very good idea, which i most definitely will do.
I also wish to keep mollies-easy livebearers, and adds nice monochrome to the colour so its balanced out.
Neon tetras
Swordtails
Platys
Possible 1 male siamese fighting fish
Zebra catfish (as the fish ive listed so far are all middle tank shoalers, need some activity at the bottom)
Dwarf neon Rainbowfish
Okay, theyre the ones i want to keep after i set the tank up and leave it to mature, and thats probably the order il buy them in every 3 week gap or so (maybe smaller gaps with the easier species like neons, swordtails and platys, guppies etc)
All different enthusiasts have different ideas as to what works best, but can as many people here critique if this set-up will not work for fighting reasons.
From my knowledge i can keep the water in a particular way that allows all fish to live happily, not all of them will live in optimum conditions, but for a mixed tank i doubt thats ever truly the case unless you have mostly same species.
Longterm i wish to add these species, again, critique and suggest which ones are big no no's with certain particular fish
I will probably get these once my tank has had a lot of time to mature, along the 7 month region at the shortest time, maybe wait til 9-10 months
Royal whiptail
cockatoo cichlid
Angel fish
Purple cichlid
Glass catfish
Gold zebra loach
Flying fox
scissortail
Harlequin
From my knowledge i can fit a good 45-60 2in average fish into a 30-40 gallon tank, I may also invest in a bigger tank, or two tanks this size.
Please code which fish are best kept together and which ones ive made a certain doomed mistake on.
I apologise for my newbie ways if i have posted cliche mistakes.
I do know cichlids fight on territory but the books state if there is little female competition, and the tank is big enough, they can live without fighting to any worrying amount.
Also please add more into the list, id be delighted to look up more species onto what i can add.
Thankyou very much for reading such a large post
Basically, I want to do a study on fish breeding (mainly guppies) and using chi square techniques figure out all the dominant ressecive alelles etc for my university project, among other fish too.
While doing this, i may as well take it up as a hobby, I enjoy watching fish, and love the colourations of well made tanks.
Basically ive bought books and im well read up on general tank making and how to do things with the tank (obviously people have personal preferences of how they do things, but im sure i'll pick parts up and get better as i go along)
My main problem is books never say "never mix this exact species with this exact species"
it just states "occasional nipping to particular fish"
And i sit there thinking
"right...what fish? lol"
So basically ive made a list of fish i wish to keep (good livebearers along with hard egg laying ones to give myself a challenge)
I do understand not to add all these fish at once, and i know the process will be slow, im not planning on getting to terms with any major league stuff until at least 1-2 years-i do understand that.
Okay heres a list of starter fish i wish to keep and will add within a 3-5 month period of each other
Guppies (Obviously, as this is what i mainly want to study)
I don't know how many of these i want to keep, chances are the tank size im going to get is in the region of 30-40 gallons, and the amount of fish is based on sq cm from my understanding (or sq inches) so i wish to make sure the dimensions are suited towards more fish than less.
How many could i realistically keep?
I mean they have 20-40 babies in a good brood apparently, which will grow big and fill the tank quickly
I am of the knowledge that purchasing a good 3-5 mini tanks for quarantine/hospital/brood purposes is a very good idea, which i most definitely will do.
I also wish to keep mollies-easy livebearers, and adds nice monochrome to the colour so its balanced out.
Neon tetras
Swordtails
Platys
Possible 1 male siamese fighting fish
Zebra catfish (as the fish ive listed so far are all middle tank shoalers, need some activity at the bottom)
Dwarf neon Rainbowfish
Okay, theyre the ones i want to keep after i set the tank up and leave it to mature, and thats probably the order il buy them in every 3 week gap or so (maybe smaller gaps with the easier species like neons, swordtails and platys, guppies etc)
All different enthusiasts have different ideas as to what works best, but can as many people here critique if this set-up will not work for fighting reasons.
From my knowledge i can keep the water in a particular way that allows all fish to live happily, not all of them will live in optimum conditions, but for a mixed tank i doubt thats ever truly the case unless you have mostly same species.
Longterm i wish to add these species, again, critique and suggest which ones are big no no's with certain particular fish
I will probably get these once my tank has had a lot of time to mature, along the 7 month region at the shortest time, maybe wait til 9-10 months
Royal whiptail
cockatoo cichlid
Angel fish
Purple cichlid
Glass catfish
Gold zebra loach
Flying fox
scissortail
Harlequin
From my knowledge i can fit a good 45-60 2in average fish into a 30-40 gallon tank, I may also invest in a bigger tank, or two tanks this size.
Please code which fish are best kept together and which ones ive made a certain doomed mistake on.
I apologise for my newbie ways if i have posted cliche mistakes.
I do know cichlids fight on territory but the books state if there is little female competition, and the tank is big enough, they can live without fighting to any worrying amount.
Also please add more into the list, id be delighted to look up more species onto what i can add.
Thankyou very much for reading such a large post