i have a 75 gallon aquarium w/ good filtration and lighting but my fishes are small(tetras) so my aquarium looks empty with floating specs of dirt!!! can anyone tell me a kind of fish that is low maintainance?? I'm in manila philippines so i cant buy any rare fishes but i can take a look at a big aquarium shop near me ...
2007-11-03 21:04:11 · 10 answers · asked by ryan 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Tetras are great to take up space in the middle of the tank, but they kinda leave the bottom and top of your tank empty. For the bottom, consider some Loaches like Yo-yo Loaches or Angelicus Botia, or some Pictus Catfish. All of those fish prefer groups of 5 or more of their own species. For the top of the tank, consider Hatchetfish, Danios, or Rainbowfish. They are also schooling fish and need large groups (in your case, 13 would be good for one of the species). Email me if you have any questions or want to bounce ideas off of somebody.
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2007-11-03 21:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you would like to stay with a South American themed tank with your tetras. Try three or four angel fish . For the bottom area of the tank I would go with 8 to 10 cory cats. Also could add a pair of Apistogramma or small rams. Along with some taller Vail plants, sword plants and a couple of pieces of driftwood these would make a very attractive tank
2007-11-04 01:01:46 · answer #2 · answered by stargrazer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some easy, low-maintainence fish are corydora catfish, smaller species of pleco (zebra pleco, tiger pleco, rubber-mouthed pleco), some other tetras (congo tetras, diamond tetras, gold skirt tetras), rainbowfish, swordtails, and smaller species of loaches (yo-yo loach, black kuhli loach, and zebra loach). These are all decent fish for many aquariums, and the easiest to take care of. Fish I DO NOT recommend: mollies (bad fin nippers), rummynose tetras (sensitive to water changes and fin nippers), barbs (fin nippers), cichlids (except for the rams ; the cichlids are usually aggressive), pictus catfish (they'll eat your smaller fish), and neon tetras (not a great hardy fish and are common for getting many diseases).
2007-11-04 06:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by Meg J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always found "guppies" to be the easiest to thrive in any tank.
Mix some of the regular & the "fancy tailed" guppies together you will soon have a very colorful mixed school of sweet tempered easy going fish.
You want to have a ratio of many more females to every male...say 6 females per male as breeding them does decrease the life span of the females quite a bit.
2007-11-03 21:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by WitchDust 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-03 07:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by bjorne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can keep a very wide variety of low maintenance freshwater fish guppies,mollies platys they are great but they reproduce very quickly tetra's are good also danios,rasporas sharks,loaches and plecs but a few additional angels or bettas make a tank look good
2007-11-03 23:48:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pretty much any freshwater fish. gold fish are nice and there are many different types of cichlids that are pretty low maintenance, with those you just have to be cautious of aggressive vs non aggressive fish. ask the people at the pet store and they should be able to inform you on which ones are compatible.
i also posted a link that has several different types of freshwater fish. happy hunting!
2007-11-03 21:16:25 · answer #7 · answered by Miss B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great your ay Manila. Matutulungan kita. Bilhin mo kaya ay Guppies, Platies, Mollies, or pwede kang magkaroon pa ng iba pang Tetras.
I can speak Tagalog can I? Haha. Im a half american half filipino.
2007-11-04 00:38:23 · answer #8 · answered by Chad, M.D. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi, i have a similar sized tank and i have tetras....i also have a plec, a siamese fighter, a gourami, 4 danios, a silver shark and a frog... they all seem to get on ok together..
2007-11-03 22:55:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have tetras too
i have catfish and guppys in with them
2007-11-03 23:31:53 · answer #10 · answered by TL1983 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋