Koi, Arowana, Scalar and Neon fish
About Koi, Arowana, Scalar and Neon
fish by
Niki Buchen!
Info and tips for
aquarium starter.
Nice that you are interested in my next article . This time we have an aquarium by a nice quite area and even water is runing in the aquarium. Decoration is allready in sand, stones and wood and a bacteria starter kit helped us to be ready to put some fish in our aquarium. This aquarium should be a juwel in our apartment - flashing lik a diamond. So how we do this? Puting some big fish into it or many smal fish in red and blue color? Well in this case it is up to the possessor of the aquarium what he likes but some convention should be keeped. Do you remember my first story about the Neon fish and the Scalar? This could happen also to other kind of fish. Last week I put some garnels to my Koi who are not predatory fish but the act like one. In a hour all garnels were eaten or just vanished in the stomach of the Kois. Kois as I know eat normaly "dead food" not alive one.
So I learned something new and this what you also will have the whole time with your aquarium. It is this and some other things what makes it so interesting . In princip you can declare every big fish eat smaller fish if he can capture them. This is the reason why we should have places where smaller and inferior fish can hide. But sometimes the smal fish annoy bigger fish. A good example are the Sumatra barbs. They love to fret Scalar fish even as they are a lot bigger then the Sumatra barbs. They like to fret Scalar fish even as they are much bigger then the Sumatra barbs. Next thing is some fish like the Discus fish is unhurried while fish like the Sumatra barb like it very fast . This irretates the Discus and they dont handle well and get shy. Next model is the cichlide from Malavi or Tanganika lake. They are real predatory fish! Eating all what they can get, even your hand will be tested if it is eatable. So what do you think will happen if you put Diskus with Malavi cichlide together ? Diectly nothing the Malavi cichlide will let the discus in peace as long as you dont come and give food to them because then its a nightmare time. The Malavi cichlides will act like maniacs and the Discus will stand in a corner and watching from distance this spectacle . So the Malavi cichlide getting more and more fat while the Discus get more and more skeletal and die at least. So beside that Malvi cichlides like water with a ph- value over 7,5/8 the Discus feel well by under 7, its no good reason to put them simultaneously. It is extrem significant when you buy an Arowana. It is extrem important when you buy an Arowana. This fish is very interesting but you have to have a big aquarium starting with 400 liters and beyond. Arowana is a honestly predatory fish! Which means dont put him together with smaller fish as his mouth is together. At least I cannot tell you here which fish you can put together because it is allways a different conbination and the best way is to ask for each new fish if he can be set to the old fish.
Compliments ,
Niki Buchen