Every novice aquarist should knowthat there are special subtleties in the maintenance and breeding of fish. For example, it is required to know not only what aquarium fish eat. The compatibility of various species also plays a huge role.
Important to know in fresh water or brackishprefer to live selected human aquarium fish. Habitat compatibility is one of the main aspects of healthy pets. This also includes the temperature regime that is optimal for a particular species. Many aquarium fish, the compatibility of which in terms of the chemical composition of the medium is ideal, differ in their attitude to high or low temperatures.
Predators pose a threat to “calm populations”
You can not keep together predatory fish that feedpreferably live food, and the peaceful ones who eat plankton, insect larvae. If individuals of peaceful species have a large size, then a smaller predator may be wary of attacking it. But as soon as it reaches the required size, for the life of a peaceful neighbor, the owner of the aquarium should start to fear and take actions: divide the capacity with opaque glass, plant fish or give one of the species to another aquarist.
Sizes of inhabitants of an artificial reservoir
Помещать вместе крупных и мелких обитателей – ungrateful business. After all, even those aquarium fish, whose compatibility in terms of habitat, water temperature and food can be considered ideal, will experience discomfort if an individual of a large, contented species lives alongside small fish. First, the difference in size will affect the amount of feed consumed: the smaller representatives will probably only get those crumbs that will be “scorned” by larger and stronger aquarium fish. Compatibility in the aquarium fish species depends on their size. By the way, even within the same species, one should adhere to the same rule: try to keep together individuals of approximately the same age and size. It is easiest to breed small schooling fishes: they are beautiful, rather unpretentious, affordable and do not require much care. These are guppies, striped danios, barbs, swordtails, picnicia, mollies. But even here there are some rules: it is still better to keep the fry separately until they reach such a size that they can no longer fit in the mouth of their own mummy or papule.
Many creatures differ in temperament.the ground, including aquarium fish. Compatibility of species prone to fights, with types of calm schooling fish is zero. Such "fighters", like Siamese warriors, that is, cockerels, start fighting even among themselves, what can we say about a quiet neighborhood with other smaller and less temperamental fish. Males even recommend not to keep males in the same aquarium - so strong is their fighting spirit. Some aquarium owners say that the cockerel can even attack its own reflection! Astronotus has a similar temperament: two males closely "under the same roof."
