Many people like pet fish because they are low maintenance . it can be very relaxing to watch them swim. Most fish lovers like to keep cold water fish for the first time because they are cheap and most of the different species of these fish will get along. These fish have some bright colors and have some very fancy fins, but they are mostly large goldfish and will eventually switch to tropical fish to get a bigger selection of fish. But keeping tropical fish can be a bit of a gamble, the fish are more expensive and some are very aggressive and will eat your other fish.
There are more different species of tropical fish to choose from . they have a wider range of colors than cold water fish and keeping them in an aquarium with other tropical fish doesn't have to be a gamble, it's not like a trip to the casino to play blackjack, if you do things right it's not no gambling at all.
The first thing you need to do is do some reading before you buy any fish for your aquarium. Reading about fish will give you an idea of what types of fish eat other fish and which don't. It will also let you know which fish are eating meat with which other fish, and won't be so gambling that you only buy one fish as an expensive meal.
Cichlids are a type of fish that eat other fish, but they are schooling 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 come home from a day of playing the most popular games , where you will find several missing fish and one fat fish slowly swimming around.
Cichlids are surface to medium depth fish. This means they will float on the top and middle of the tank and generally won't go to the bottom of the tank for very long.
So many people with cichlids get a bottom swimmer to fill the tank. A very popular type of bottom swimmer is the catfish. There are many different fish in the catfish species. Some of these fish are not aggressive and not very large, but a fish like this may not be aggressive enough to be in a cichlid tank.
You may want to get a more aggressive type of catfish, but if you get a big one, it will surely eat the Cichlids, but if it's too small, you're gambling that the Cichlids won't rip its eyes out.
Just remember that no matter how much you read, each fish has its own personality, and no matter how much you read that one fish will be friendly with another, putting them in an aquarium together is a gamble.
There is always a chance that some of your fish will be eaten, but the only way to make fish a gamble is to keep each fish in a separate fish tank in the hope that they will all be safe. By trial and error, you will learn what can live with which types of fish and save gambling for Las Vegas casinos.
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