These gorgeous fish with their patriotic coloring feed on a diet of live foods, including white worms, brine shrimp, tubifex, frozen meaty foods, and tropical flakes. American Flagfishes thrive in community tanks and even in small outdoor ponds, preferring dense planting and cover provided by floating plants.
The fish is named for the American flag, having alternating red and creamy green stripes running horizontally across its body and sparkling scales that are reminiscent of the stars on the flag. The American Flagfish is an easy-to-care-for killifish that is well-known for both its algae-eating services and its stunning colors. Water temperature: From 66° to 72° Fahrenheit.If you invest time in training your loaches, they will eventually learn to accept tropical flake foods, too.ĥ. These nocturnal fishes are peaceful, getting along well with other benign community species.įeeding these fish can be challenging, as they do prefer a live diet, although they do accept freeze-dried tubifex and bloodworms, and they will take frozen meaty foods too. Loaches are shy fish that need an environment with plenty of hiding places and thick planting. Loaches are scaleless fish, and that can leave them susceptible to attack by parasites and some bacterial diseases too. These fishes are primarily carnivorous, living on the substrate and scavenging. The Banded Khuli loach is one of around 100 species that belong to the Cobitidae family. Water temperature: From 79° to 86° Fahrenheit.Golden Wonder Killifish are carnivores, eating most live foods, including tubifex, white worms, and brine shrimp, and they will also accept some frozen and flake foods. Killifish are easy to look after and are tolerant of a wide range of water conditions, although they do prefer soft, slightly acidic water and are happiest in a heavily planted tank. These carnivorous fishes are brightly colored with blue to yellow body coloration augmented by brilliant orange stripes and spots. Golden Wonder Killifish are native to the brackish and freshwater streams, marshes, and ponds of Africa, and their name, Killy, is taken from the Dutch for channel or ditch. Water temperature: From 72° to 75° Fahrenheit.When fed a good quality diet and kept in the right conditions, these fish will spawn readily.
Neons are omnivorous, thriving on a diet of tropical flake food and micro-pellets, supplemented with frozen food, such as bloodworms, brine shrimp, and mosquito larvae. Neon tetras are peaceful little fishes that can be kept in a community setup with other small, non-aggressive tankmates. Neons do best in a heavily planted tank with subdued lighting and lots of hiding places, such as caves, driftwood, etc, Provide plenty of open water too, as these fish like to hang out in the midwater area of the aquarium creating a breathtaking display of shimmering color as they shoal together. With their glittering, iridescent blue coloring and brilliant red tail, these gorgeous little fishes look absolutely stunning when kept in schools of six or more individuals.
Neon tetras are regarded as the jewels of the fishkeeping hobby. Water temperature: From 68° to 78° Fahrenheit.Keep these peaceful fishes in small schools in species-only tanks or with other non-aggressive companions. The GloFish Danio is omnivorous, thriving on a staple diet of tropical flake and frozen, meaty foods. The colors are completely natural and produced through genetics, rather than artificial dyes, so the color does not fade. These captive-bred danios are available in super-bright red, green, orange, blue, and purple. GloFish danios are just about the brightest freshwater fishes that you can get! These stunning little fishes make the ideal starter fish for a kid’s tank or an eye-catching specialty aquarium. Water temperature: From 64° to 75° Fahrenheit.So, here are our 29 favorite coolest freshwater aquarium fish that any hobbyist would love to have in their collection! 1.
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