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#2062302 SheeNa619 View Profile	Wondering I have a 20 gal tank & I was wondering what ype of freshwater fish would be good to put in it that won’t fight or anything.?? I have some ideas for fish but don’t know how well they work together. but here are the fish I would like to have. Strawberry Pseudochromis. Royal Gramma. Fancy Guppy[male & female]. Glofish Starfire Red Zebra Danio. those are just a coupleI saw. just thought I’d ask the experts here. thank you for your time.
08/23/09  11:23am
#2062555 Tpau15 View Profile	Message To: SheeNa619   In reference to Message Id: 2062302  Wondering Strawberry Pseudochromis and the Royal Gramma are Marine (salt water) fish, and the others you mentioned are freshwater fish. Choose one type of fish first (Marine or freshwater), then figure out what you want as possible choices. You can do a Marine tank if you wish, but I would do some heavy duty reading before you attempt anything. There are more chemicals and balancing water chemistry involved with a Marine set up. There are also different filtration units and such that a Marine environment needs. Either way, I recommend that you set up the tank first, if you haven’t already, before you buy fish: filtration, water conditioner, substrate, etc. If you want to go with the Guppies and Glofish, they would do fine together. They are both "top swimmers" and would fill that strata of your tank nicely. Keep in mind though if you are thinking of breeding Guppies (and if you are getting male and female, rest assured, you WILL be breeding them) that they have a gestation period of only 28 days and can have around 20 - 60 babies at a time. The babies can then breed themselves at about 2 months old. End result: exponential numbers of guppies within only a few breeding cycles. If you don’t have plans for that many offspring (like feeding the excess to fish that eat fish, like cichlids, or perhaps a freshwater turtle) I do not recommend breeding them. Especially if this is your first real attempt at keeping a tank, I would choose the male guppies only to put in your tank. (The males are more colorful than the females, and female guppies can mate once and retain some of the males sperm and re-inseminate herself up to 10 times!) All "live bearers," like Platys, Mollys, Variatus, Swordtails, can be just as prolific as guppies are and many of them can interbreed with each other, so keep than in mind when looking into fish like those. There are many types of tetras, and other "Tropical Community" type fish that are not live bearers, that would go well with the two types of fish you mentioned: Black Phantom Tetra, Long-Fined Red Minor Tetra, Black Skirt Tetra, Gold Skirt Tetra, X-ray Tetra, Neon Tetra, Cardinal Tetra, Black Neon Tetra, Orange Flame Von Rio Tetra, White Clouds, Hatchet Fish, Glow fish, Lamp Eye Tetra, and Zebra and Leopard Danios. Some examples of live bearing fish that are acceptable tank mates are: Sunset Dwarf Platy, Red Wag Platy, (various colors) Mickey Mouse Platy, Red Tail Black Variatus, Twin Bar Platy, (Dalmatian, Silver, Creamcicle, Black, Lyretail) Molly, Red Velvet Swordtail, Black Swordtail, and Balloon Belly Molly. These are all community fish and as such keeping them in schools of their own species is ideal. A school of fish is three or more fish of the same species. Neon Tetras should be kept in groups of at least 4 - 6.
08/23/09  08:03pm

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