What is the easiest type of fish to grow?

Question

I want to know what's the easiest type of fish to maintain.
It should be low maintence and not easily die.
The fish being colorful would help too.
Any suggestions would be helpful.

Answer 1

Your asking for easy but if I might add easy might not be something you want in the long run, if you are asking for a fish that is easy to grow but don't like i.e it's colors or its behavior then you end up losing right.

In my personal experience I would suggest you to have a goldfish.

Get an aquarium
The best goldfish aquarium is NOT a glass bowl. Glass bowls are o.k. for baby goldfish, but, if cared for properly, that little fish will grow very large (8-15cm) and live for around twenty years! So unless you want to keeping forking out for new tanks, buy a decent sized fish tank. An ideal size is at least 60 x 30 x 30 cm, and will hold nearly 50 litres of water. Also, only keep one large goldfish per 20 litres of water. This means you can house two large or three medium goldfish in the 60 cm tank. It does not mean four or more baby goldfish, because they’ll soon grow. If you want four or five goldfish as pets then, at the least, you’ll need a 90 x 30 x 38 cm tank.

Also make sure the tank has got a lid – you don’t want to come home and discover that Fluffy has just made a meal of your new pet!

Feed it
A staple diet for goldfish is goldfish pellets or flakes. Follow the instructions on the pot of flakes; the usual recommendation is two or three small feeds a day. The greatest cause of death in goldfish is overfeeding, so only feed your fish what they can eat within five minutes and remove any leftover food. If left to rot the food will pollute the water and become toxic for the fish.

Keep the tank clean
Goldfish swim in their toilet, so it makes a lot of sense to keep the tank clean! Either buy a filter, or change 25% of the water at least once a week. And don’t just leave the tank until it looks really filthy and then pour all the water away. The tank water contains good bacteria as well as bad, so changing small amounts of water more often is much healthier for the fish.

Watch out for disease
Dirty water, overcrowding and rough handling can cause diseases. And if you’ve got a sick fish it will be easy to spot. It’ll rest on the bottom of the tank, with its fins and tail drooping, swim on its side or even float upside down. If you suspect that your fish is sick take it to the vet, and if you have other fish, put the sick fish in a separate tank to prevent the disease from spreading. Plus, goldfish are also sensitive to changes in their environment so things like fly sprays, nicotine and paint fumes can also affect them.

As you can see, keeping goldfish as pets is really easy; the only trouble you’ll have is trying to pick a name for it.

Answer 2

What's your budget? Reason I ask is that to keep fish properly you need to set up a suitable aquarium. Now that can be a 5gal tank and the whole kit might only cost $50. That makes a good home for a betta fish, which is just happens do be a good beginner fish. They are hardy, pretty and can live perfectly OK in a smaller tank. Then you go up from there. White Cloud Minnows are another good option for beginners. 10gal tank, no heater needed. They stay small and you can keep a group of them in a 10gal or bigger tank. Goldfish - the traditional beginner fish. But they grow into a large and messy fish. But 20 gal is suitable for a single black moor or fantail. Heck you can buy a 75gal tank and an Oscar. It's a big fish that has a personality more like a puppy, but can grow to a foot long, hence the need for a big tank. But their care is pretty much the same as the betta in the 5gal, just the water changes are much bigger, and you feed the Oscar earthworms and shrimp the size of a betta. There are many other fish that are perfectly OK. But do your research on how to set up and care for an aquarium. Once you learn how to do that, the aquarium system looks after the fish. That's what filters, heaters and water changes are for, maintaining the aquarium system, then the fish can live in there. Stuffing any fish in a bowl, it's pretty much doomed no matter how hard you try and care for it. Ian

Answer 3

Goldfish are immediately out. They are not low maintinence fish, they are instead abused fish not properly maintained by their keepers. Unless you have a 50 gal + tank don't even bother with them. Koi will need an even larger aquarium. If a pond is your aim go nuts but otherwise lets just keep karp out of this. The livebearing toothcarps are usually a safe bet, these include Guppies, Mollys, Plattys, Goodids, varitas, and Swordtails. The egglaying toothcarps are also fairly hardy if you keep the conditions reasonable, these fish include the Killifish.

But don't even think about the fish you wish to keep until you have a suitable place to keep them. FIrst you need a tank. Now if your serious about keeping and breeding fish you will need a minimum of ten gallons and a maximum of whatever you can afford. You will also need some form of filtration.

FIltration brings on the next point, the ammonia cycle. In order to keep these critters in the confines of an aquarium you need to do something with their ammonia wastes. Luckily bacteria will develop to transform these wastes but they need time to develop. You can either cycle the tank (as its called) with fish or without. If you do it with fish you will likely loose the fish you use. Fishless cycling simply involves letting the tank run for a period of time while adding ammonia daily to feed the bacteria. Once the tank is Cycled then you should decide what to keep. I'll stick a few resources to get you started below.

Answer 4

goldfish are nice to look at, but very messy and picky about their environment. Gourami's are like bettas in that they have a modified lung so they are a big hardier than "normal" fish. Mollies, platies, guppies, and endler's livebearers have live babies, which is really cool to watch them grow up! If you have a big enough tank i would say get some gouramis or some female bettas. the females are not always as colorful, and have shorter fins, but they are pretty, hardy, and you can keep more than one in one tank without them killing each other (usually). Good luck!

Answer 5

Bettas and neon tetras were my first fish and they lived for several years. Bettas are easy because they can live in smaller containers and you don't really need to monitor their environments too much. Tetras are great because they are not only low maintance, but also incredibly friendly so you can add other fish later on.
African clawed frogs are easy to raise too and they can live in a tank with tetras.

Answer 6

The easiest colorful fish to maintain is a Guppy.

They can live at temperatures from 64-82F.


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Answer 7

Well the fastest growing fish that i've ever had was a tiger oscar. I got him when he was about 3 inches. after about 4.5 months hes about 9 - 10"

Answer 8

Pretty much any fish you find in a pet store is easy to maintain. One that is also colorful and long living is a Japanese Beta. But make sure you don't put two in the same tank!

Answer 9

Most any of the common community fish you see at pet shops will fit the bill as long as you are willing to give them a filtered tank and fairly regular maintenance.

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Answer 10

I HEARD THAT THE "JANITOR" FISH IS TH BEST FISH TO GROW IF YOU'RE JUST STARTING TO RAISE FISHES. THEY ARE TOTALLY LOW MAINTENANCE WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE THE WATER THAT OFTEN, AND THEY EAT THE MOLD GROWING ON THE SIDES OF THE AQUARIUM. I GUESS THEY'RE CALLED JANITOR FISH FOR THAT REASON.