Best Beginner Monster?
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1) Slot of people seem to like birchirs so you could do senegals(i dont really like them)
2) You could do colored convicts like pink and yellow they are amazing in color. And viscous feeders
3) School of exodons they are great to watch feed
4) with a 60gal you could do a community with angels, coryies, and tetras
5) My personal interest a salt tank! A 55gal salt tank could do a snowflake moray eel!
They are great fish and you can hand feed them but be careful.
6) Or a brackish eel in a 30gal.
7) tons of tetra's(monster in there own way)
Thats only a few there are tons of possibilities.
2) You could do colored convicts like pink and yellow they are amazing in color. And viscous feeders
3) School of exodons they are great to watch feed
4) with a 60gal you could do a community with angels, coryies, and tetras
5) My personal interest a salt tank! A 55gal salt tank could do a snowflake moray eel!
They are great fish and you can hand feed them but be careful.
6) Or a brackish eel in a 30gal.
7) tons of tetra's(monster in there own way)
Thats only a few there are tons of possibilities.
The cons and bichirs mentioned are pretty much bullet proof. I had an ich outbreak in one of my tanks due to bypassing quarantine and the bichirs were completely unaffected.
Red Devils, Oscars, Jack Dempseys and other CA/SAs are very hardy as well. I've got no experience with wolffish because I can't find one. lol
Red Devils, Oscars, Jack Dempseys and other CA/SAs are very hardy as well. I've got no experience with wolffish because I can't find one. lol
i had my oscar housed in my 50 tall tank for 4 years before i sold him. no HITH had ich once when i firs started and fed him feeders, other than that, i filtered and cleaned my tank very well and the rest basically took care of itself, get yourself a 55, a oscar, a good canister filter, and a pleco and your good to go
Green sunfish! They are awesome and can eat anything you feed them. They have pretty have big mouth for a sunfish.
SW/Brackish imo is not ideal for a first time fish owner... it can be done.. but it's alot less forgiving ime then FW. the SW snowflake eels is hardy for a SW eel.. but is still suseptible to fluxuating salt levels and.. a 40 breeder would be absolute min imo for a snowflake eel, and brackish eels are generally a hit or miss. either you get a healthy specimin.. or a poor one... and then you get the delightful job of maintaining it in brackish for so long.. then converting it to SW or FW... after so many months/years as per it's life cycle.. ect.. ect..
I'm not saying Senegals are the "holy grail" of beginner "oddball" fish... but from my own experainces and others give you personality and activeness. things many first-time fish owners seem to hold key in fish... otherwise the OP imo would have guppies, tetras, ect... already. also having air-breathing capabilities poor water quality is far more accepted and allows the owner time to fix their mistakes and not kill the fish.. then even the heartiest of convicts and other species.. Oscars ime are the least "Oops" friendly of these fish and more imo an intermediate species. I love my Oscars.. But they require a certain knowledge base instilled imo to keep happy and healthy long-term.
imo Sens also offer the flexability of being fairly compatable for future sticking after the owner has been in the hobby abit and gotten their "feet-wet" they may not need to get a new tank to add to their collection.. simply do abit of research and maybe upgrade a few gallons to find suitable companions for them.
I also highly reccomend getting 2 or more.. my Sens are very active, and amusing to watch.. maybe keeping a single specimin alone could make this fish dull and boring.. and in color they are.. but imo these fish more then make up for the lack of color w/ amusement just watching them..
I'm not saying Senegals are the "holy grail" of beginner "oddball" fish... but from my own experainces and others give you personality and activeness. things many first-time fish owners seem to hold key in fish... otherwise the OP imo would have guppies, tetras, ect... already. also having air-breathing capabilities poor water quality is far more accepted and allows the owner time to fix their mistakes and not kill the fish.. then even the heartiest of convicts and other species.. Oscars ime are the least "Oops" friendly of these fish and more imo an intermediate species. I love my Oscars.. But they require a certain knowledge base instilled imo to keep happy and healthy long-term.
imo Sens also offer the flexability of being fairly compatable for future sticking after the owner has been in the hobby abit and gotten their "feet-wet" they may not need to get a new tank to add to their collection.. simply do abit of research and maybe upgrade a few gallons to find suitable companions for them.
I also highly reccomend getting 2 or more.. my Sens are very active, and amusing to watch.. maybe keeping a single specimin alone could make this fish dull and boring.. and in color they are.. but imo these fish more then make up for the lack of color w/ amusement just watching them..
Chijin;4098883; said:
I dont get why ur asking this. Its no different then setting up your first salt water or brackish tank. Aslong as you do your research know what you need to do to care for it and make sure everything is the best you can set it up I dont think it matters.
fishy12;4100766; said:
Well, to my understanding, setting up Saltwater Aquariums isn't the easiest thing for the complete novice fish keeper to be doing.
And even if it is perfectly possible, or not too laborious a task, wouldn't it just stay in its hide cave all of the time, and just generally be a bore? And what other fish can it be kept with?
