What kind of fish are the easiest to keep?

Question

In our present tank we currently have two guppies, one tiger barb, one kissing gourami and one black moor. The black moor was one of the first we bought and is fine-likewise with the gourami and barb. I am new to the world of fish and know NOW that these fish should not all be together due to agressiveness-now earlier someone mentioned to me that a moor is a cold water fish and the others are freshwater/tropical and they all need different temps to live.......Can someone please help me fix this mess. I bought another tank to seperate agressive/semi agressive and the moor, gourami and barb-all older fish seem fine in the tank they are in but I am REALLY finding all of this confusing to be honest. I have a 9 yr old son-fishboy 2006-who is REALLY interested in fish but I am not helping out his interest much........

Answer 1

Well.....

To start, you can keep these all together, but you need at least 2 gourms, and at least 5 tiger barbs (they spend so much time sorting pecking order amongst themselves that they leave everyone else alone) and probably a bigger tank. With guppies you need more males then females, and never males on their own with other males, as they will peck at each other. The moor should be on its own or with another in a cold water tank, although I have kept them with gourms for a college experiment and all went well, I don't recommend it. Best to do is stock the tank as following:

2 or more gourami
5 or more tiger barbs
10 or so guppies

What size is your tank? If you want to email me the rest of your set up (Filter size and type, tank measurements, heater size, and so on) I can help you a bit better :) In our four foot tank we have:

5 corries
7 neons
12 female guppies, 2 males
9 harlequins
2 clown loaches
1 golden apple snail
9 tiger barbs

it use to have 2 blue gourami and a fighting fish as well, but a massive temperature drop killed them.

Answer 2

The thing to realize is fish can be divided into 5 groups.

tropical community- Fish like guppy, platty, dwarf gourmis, some tetra...
tropical semi-aggressive- Most gouramis, most barbs...
tropical aggressive- some types of sharks, large catfish....
Gold fish community- Gold fish, dojo loaches,...
Chilids- Oscars and other really aggressive fish (note there are actually 4 groups within this one as some are really really really aggressive.)

These groups give you a good idea which fish can live together. Any good store should have their fish labeled into these groups. If they don't they should be asking you details question about what fish you already own. If they don't do either of these the fish store is a really bad fish store. You should avoid it at all costs.

Your problem is you have fish in 3 different groups.
Tropical community- Guppy
Semi-aggressive- gourmi, and barb
Gold fish- Black moor

The good news is the guppies can live in cold water if you bag, and float them. The goldfish can live in up to 75 degrees, but he's not really not tough enough to take the barb, or gourmi long term. If the guppy are too big to fit in the goldfish's mouth they can live together.

Answer 3

These fish are all fine together. Your goldfish does not care what temperature he is kept at, your barb will want about 75 degrees, which is fine for the kisser and the guppies. The only fish that is likely to nip fins is the tiger barb, but the are not that agressive. Change about 20% of the water per week, always us dechlor and make sure the temp is about the same as that of the tank...you can learn to do it by feel. Good luck

Answer 4

They are all fine together in the same temp... the kisser is a bit on the aggressive side and the barb a little less. But if they're getting along, let it alone! Have a few plants in the tank for the others to hide if/when kisser and barb go after them.

Answer 5

A Beta fish is the easiest. But they dont like any other fish in the tank. Easy to clean and dont make alot of mess or algae and you can have one in a small bowl without a filter and stuff. The only thing is that you kinda feel sorry for him because he is alone. But he sure is pretty.

Answer 6

THEESE FISH MIX VERRY WELL! Tiger barb
Mollies
Tetris
guppies
algae eaters or placostamus
irrodessent sharks
zebra fish
Hope i could help, **Chowder G**

Answer 7

I would have to say the Beta. They can live in a bowl and you DONT have to have a filter for them. Only the female Beta get along in one tank for if you have about a 5 gallon bowl then you should be able to house 2 FEMALE beta's.

Answer 8

you should ask the person at the pet store which fish go good with each other before you buy but ive had several kinds of fish and the sucker mouth fish seems to get along with all of them

Answer 9

I do well with cories, gouramis, mollies, and platies.

Answer 10

goldfish