Compatibility for Tropical Fish of Freshwater Aquariums

When setting up a freshwater aquarium, you want to make sure that you understand which fish will get along. The last thing that you want to do is have your tank proper set up and acclimated, and then a few weeks, or even days, after adding a your initial fish, one or two start to nip and bully the others. This will severely stress out the other fish.

You want to make sure that you keep community fish with community fish, semi-aggressive with semi-aggressive, and aggressive fish with aggressive fish. But, in terms of aggressive and semi-aggressive fish, you want to make sure that you keep similarly sized fish in the tank. With aggressive fish, you want to keep one species per tank, as well.

Keeping the Silver Arowana

The complete how-to guide to caring for the silver arowana, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, as an aquarium fish. What size tank do you need? What kind of filtration? What do you feed it? How fast will your arowana grow? What are these magnificent fish like as pets? What are the common problems you might encounter, and how do you handle them? Everything you need to know from an experienced silver arowana guardian. Abundantly illustrated with color photographs.