Aquarium design assignment

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Krisztina

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I hope nobody minds me signing up just to ask for help, but as I'll explain I've never kept fish so I wouldn't be much use trying to post in other people's threads. I study Animal Behaviour at university and I've been given an assignment brief to design an enclosure for a specific species that meets its welfare needs. I would really like to look at a fish species because as I said I've never kept fish and I would love to learn more about them.

What I need help with is choosing a species to base the assignment on. If you could recommend a species that:

1. Is fairly commonly kept (so there'd be books/websites about it)
2. Needs a fairly complex enclosure - doesn't have to be crazily hard but enough for me to write 3,000 words on.
3. Poses a particular challenge or two to fish keepers - something that you couldn't put in a goldfish bowl and expect to flourish. Perhaps a species that needs very carefully balanced water or a certain amount of light, something of that nature that would make the aquarium a little more species-specific.

I would REALLY appreciate any help. There's so much information about there about fish that it's so hard narrowing it down to a few species. If there's a type of fish you particularly enjoy keeping, please let me know about it. Thanks!
 
Stingray, freshwater.
Study their use of sense of smell/taste to find food in a simple maze(s) or how they learn to find food in different settings (under driftwood, slightly suspended above substrate, behind a porous surface)
Good luck.
 
wouldn't go with an rtc, just not exactly a tester fish. something like your basic angel fish could be a good fish for you. lots of info, not too hard to keep yet requires some work
 
rays would be a cool one, but they aren't really good fish for someone who's never kept any fish before
 
Oh just to clarify I won't actually be setting this aquarium up! I just have to draw a design for one and then write about it, purely theoretical. So there's no danger of me killing any fish or anything.

Thank you for the replies, I'm looking up all the species mentioned. :)
 
how about Pirarucu?
 
I would look into Black Ghost Knifefish or Elephant Nose Morymids.

Or consider an olm, which is a Caudate.
 
if your looking for a fish that would do better in a "complex" enclosure look up archerfish, they actually spit water at bugs on tree limbs above the water line, something your not goona find in most aquariums.
 
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