WHat are some of your hot takes on fishkeeping? I'll go first!
Bare tanks are boring, and unhealthy for fish
Bare tanks are boring, and unhealthy for fish
Fish Hot Takes
- Thread starter MetalRavioli
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I don’t have a problem with bare tanks in some situations.
Bare tanks serve their purpose in the hobby. Many keepers of large charicins and arowana keep bare tanks because they just like to ram into decorations and impale themselves. Flower horns can’t have decorations. Stingrays prefer a bare space on the bottom of the tank. Big puffers. Pacu. European perch. Arapima, I find danios don’t really need anything, they tend to have the same level of activity and enrichment in bare.
However most catfish need cover. Bichirs and Australia fish like structure. Knifefish like caves. Cichlids like rocks and cover.
Me either I don't see what people see in them. Boring, unpretty and uninteresting.
Lungfish fall into the same category.
I like bichirs in Blackwater hardscaped tanks but lungfish are my favourite fish! I’m currently saving to get a Aussie lungfish.
Those Aussie lungfish are $1000 on livefish. Otherwise you could try Jardini International, one of the only two companies in the world licensed to breed and sell Australian Lungfish. (I don't know who the other company is.)
Live fish is the seller of Jardini stuff in Australia. I think Bruce Sambell at Ausyfish is the other breeder. I believe Live fish is run by Bruce’s son Allan.
Exactly! Like, I get it for the larger fishes, stingrays, axolotls, flowerhorns, all that jazz. But fishes like Bichirs, Cichlids, eels, catfish, ctenopoma, all those guys and more like structure and cover, and are way better off with decor/plants.
Here's my hot take: you can mix African cichlids with medium-sized Central American cichlids.
My hot take that i stand by is that in many circumstances, salt tanks are easier than fresh