25 gallon community freshwater fish tank? what fish are ideal?

The first thing you should look at is a group of schooling fish. The danios are excellent fish for this, and will spawn easily if you decide to try breeding them in the future. If you want smaller fish, any of the smaller danios (like the ever-popular zebrafish, Danio rerio) are excellent, but a 25 gallon or larger tank gives you room for one of the larger danios instead, and these are in my mind much more impressive fish. Now, here's a piece of advice. These are schooling fish, so buy a school of fish. That means at least six fish, and ten is better. Do not buy just two or three (or one) danios. Two danios alone in a tank will never feel comfortable or behave naturally. Having a large numbers of one fish species does however require that you have fewer species of fish. But believe me, a tank with twenty fish of three species looks much more natural than a tank with twenty fish of ten species.

In a 25 gal or larger tank you can have a second fish school as well. How about six rosy barbs (Puntius conchonius), or any of their medium size relatives? I would however avoid tiger barbs (Capoeta tetrazona) because they are more aggressive and may nip fins. Another possibility is any of the rainbow fishes. The Boeseman's rainbows (Melanotaenia boesemani) and the red rainbows (Glossolepis incisus) are both very good choices because they are very colourful and not too expensive. Get at least six fish for the second school too.

You now have chosen twelve or so medium-sized schooling fish in your tank. All of the fish offered as choices so far stay near the middle level of the tank, but you would like to make use of the upper and lower levels too. Filling the lower levels is relatively easy, since there are lots of good beginners' bottom feeders, but suitable top feeders are harder to find. No top feeder fits our criteria of being colourful, cheap, and hardy. The hatchet fishes (Carnegiella spp.) might suffice but I would not consider them hardy. The African butterfly fish (Pantodon buchholzi) is hardy, but relatively expensive. However the popular live-bearing swordtails and platies (Xiphophorus spp.) will spend a lot of time near the surface, and can be used to make better use of the upper level. Personally, I have a bias against unnaturally coloured fish strains (red swordtails and their ilk), but you can still find wild-type "green" swordtails in most good aquarium stores (and various club members breed them as well) so if you share this bias you can still have your swordtails. Get one male and a couple of females. I would not recommend mollies for this tank because these fishes are really quite delicate and are not in my opinion suitable.

For bottom feeders, get a school of six Corydoras catfish (Corydoras aeneus is a good choice since it's commonly available and inexpensive) and also add a bristle-nose catfish (Ancistrus spp.) to eat algae. And since no tank is complete without cichlids, a pair of kribs (Pelvicachromis pulcher) completes the population. Make sure the kribs have a cave to hide in. Once together, this selection of fishes will make a colourful, active (but not frenetic) display.

You may have noticed that I have only suggested getting six species of fish for this tank. Many community tanks have much more that that, and that's fine, but I am sticking to my suggestion to have a relatively small number of species. I think that the hardest thing to learn about setting up an attractive display tank is restraint. A modest choice of fish species invariably results in a more elegant aquarium than does a hodge-podge of species.

You may have also noticed that the collection of fish presented here is a bit eclectic in that the fish come from many different parts of the world. This was done on purpose, because if you restrict yourself to fishes from only one locality you will have troubles finding enough species to populate your tank with hardy, colourful, inexpensive, and peaceful fish. But after you advance in the hobby, you may decide to become a purist and only select fish from one location for your next display tank.

Community Freshwater Fish Tank

I didn't look at your links, but betta fish don't need a very big tank to servive. I would get a small 5 gallon tank, and remeber you can't put more the one in the same tank. Also when putting a new fish into a new tank you should fill the tank up with water and let it sit over night before putting the fish in. This allows the water in the tank to settle.Plus if you take the fish from one tank and put it in another the water temp may not be the same, and it can shock the fish.

Well it depends on what you want.

As Loollea said...you should go to the store and pick a fish you like and ask for fish that are compatible with it. However, be warned, many people that work there do not know much info about this topic. I'd suggest you buy some books, and look at the compatibility chart located here:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/fwcompatibility...

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(Do not get the 1st cichlid one, as the size for the tank is off.)

Also most tetras are great beginner fish, as are danios and guppies.

First, you have to ask yourself what sort of community are you wanting to do do? Tropical? Livebearer? Coldwater? In my opinion the most appealing type of community is the Tropical. In that there are several different combinations you can do with the versatility of a 25 gallon. First, off a personal favorite, Grouamis! You can try a mixture of Dwarf, sunsent fire, moonlight, powder blue, honey, pink, kissing gouramis. Each of these are fairly docile and great to have as well as personality wise. If you really want to get into it you can get into the more advanced and after your tank has been good and cycled you can give rainbows, german blue rams (dwarf cichlid species), and even angels. The choice is ultimately yours, however if you're a beginner I'd recommend are either a gourami community or tetra community! Later on if you really want to get into I recommend doing german blue communities! Good luck!

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they are all ideal depending on what you like

look around the pet shop and pick a fish that you like, then ask the

clerk to help you pick other fish that would be compatible with it

and its living conditions

also, please get a book to help you care for your fish

scavenging fish?