TROPICAL FISH MANAGEMENT

FISH EXAMPLES

TOOTHED CARPlivebearers

guppies, mollies, platys, swordtails

family: Poeciliidae

Male Guppy

anal fin moved forward - modified into gonopodium

Poecilia reticulata - many-colored netlike

guppy - up to 2 1/2 inches

male

female

Guppies (male)

Poecilia latipinna &Poecilia sphenopsmollies - 4 inches

black mollie (male)

black lyretail (male)

gold mollies

Xiphophorous maculatus (platy or moonfish) - 2

1/2 inches &

Xiphophorous variatus (varigated platy or

variatus platy - 3 inches

platy (male) platy (female)

sunset platy

Xiphophorus helleri

velvet swordtail (female)

male

LABYRINTH FISH

families: Anabantidae, Belontidae, Helostomatidae, Osphronemidae

betta, gourami

Betta splendens

betta, Siamese fighting fish

3 inches

wild caught male

female

bettas

Colisa lalia (6-8 inches)

dwarf gouramired gourami

Pearl gourami

Opaline gourami

Trichogaster trichopterus

Blue or three spot

gourami

CICHLIDS

angelfish - cross of Pterophllum scalare and P. eimekei

silver angelfish

up to 20 inches

black angelfish

gold marble angelfish

discusfamily: Cichlidaespecies: Symphysodon aequifasciatus & Symphysodon discus

soft water, 80-84 º F

average lifespan - 10 years

average size - up to 12 inches

leopard discus

discus

Jack DempseyCichlasoma octofasciatum

soft water, 72-77 º Faverage size - up to 8 inches

CHARACINS

tetras, hatchetfishleporinus, silver dollars

cardinal tetras

black skirt tetras

marble hatchet

Carnigiella strigata, 1 1/2 inches

5.5 - 7.5 pH, 5-18 dH, 72-82 F

CATFISH

egg layers

BRONZE CATFISH

Corydoras aeneus

Up to 2 inches, pH 5.8-7.0, hardness 2-30 dH, temp 72-79

BANDIT CATFISH

Corydoras metae

Up to 2 inches, pH 6.5-7.0, hardness 4-5 dH, temp 72-79

PLECOSTOMUS CATFISH

family: Loricariidae& Callichthyidae

armored, mailed, & plated catfish

ROUND GOBY

Neogobius melanostomus4-10 inches; Great Lakes

LOACHES

egg layers

CLOWN LOACH

Botia macracanthus

up to 12 inches Sumatra & Borneo

75-86 F

KILLIFISH

toothed carpegg layers

Cyprinodontidae

Aphyosemion arnoldi

Aphyosemion australi

Aphyosemion australi

Aphyosemion arnoldi

Aphyosemion bivittatum ekondo

Aphyosemion bivittatum biafra

Aphyosemion cognatum

Aphyosemion liberien

Rivulus amphoreus

Rivulus magdelenae

Rivulus xiphideus