tropical fish management michelle rutz-mendicino
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TROPICAL FISH MANAGEMENT
Michelle Rutz-Mendicino
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Tank Components
• Water tight glass tank
• Lamp/Light
• Canopy
• Heater
• Filter (under-gravel, over-tank, canister)
• Gravel
• Air Source
• Plants/Wood/Accessories
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The Nitrogen Cycle
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Starting the Nitrogen Cycle
• Option 1– Using fish food (maybe not the best idea…)
• Option 2– Raw fish or raw shrimp
• Option 3– 100% Ammonia drops
• Option 4– Use gravel or filters from an established tank
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Speeding up the Nitrogen Cycle
• Helpful tips:– Increase the temperature to 80-82˚F– Get some beneficial bacterial colonies
• Gravel
• Used filter media
– Products to introduce beneficial bacteria• Bio-Spira
• Tetra Safe Start
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Fish Disease• Parasitic
– Ich
• Bacterial– Streptococcus iniae– Edwardsiella spp.– Aeromonas spp.– Mycobacterium spp.
• Viral• Fungal
– Saprolegnia
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Fish Disease
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TOOTHED CARP
Livebearersguppies, mollies, platys,
swordtails
family: Poeciliidae
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Male Guppy
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Poecilia reticulata - many-colored netlike
guppy - up to 2 1/2 inches
male
female
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Guppies (male)
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Poecilia latipinna &Poecilia sphenopsmollies - 4 inches
black mollie (male)
black lyretail (male)
gold mollies
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Xiphophorous maculatus (platy or moonfish) - 2
1/2 inches &
Xiphophorous variatus (varigated platy or
variatus platy - 3 inches
platy (male) platy (female)
sunset platy
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Xiphophorus helleri
velvet swordtail (female)
AKA green swordtail
male
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LABYRINTH FISH
families: Anabantidae, Belontidae, Helostomatidae, Osphronemidae
betta, gourami
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Betta splendens
betta, Siamese fighting fish
3 inches
wild caught male
female
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bettas
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Colisa lalia (6-8 inches)
dwarf gouramired gourami
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Pearl gourami
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Opaline gourami
Trichogaster trichopterus
Blue or three spot
gourami
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CICHLIDS
South and Central American
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Angelfish - cross of Pterophllum scalare and P. eimekei
Silver angelfish
up to 20 inches
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Black angelfish
Gold marble angelfish
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DiscusFamily: CichlidaeSpecies:
- Symphysodon aequifasciatus
- Symphysodon discus
soft water, 80-84 º F
average lifespan - 10 years
average size - up to 12 inches
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Leopard discus
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Discus
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Jack DempseyCichlasoma octofasciatum
soft water, 72-77 º Faverage size - up to 8 inches
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Firemouth CichlidThorichthys meeki
soft water, 72-77 º Faverage size - up to 6 inches
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Convict CichlidAmatitlania nigrofasciata
soft water, 72-77 º Faverage size - up to 4.5 inches
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Long Finned Oscar
Astronotus ocellatussoft water, 72-77 º F
average size - up to 18 inches
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CICHLIDS
African
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Lakes Tanganyika, Victoria and Malawi
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CHARACINS
Schooling fish
Tetras, HatchetfishLeporinus, Silver dollars
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Neon tetrasBlack skirt
tetras
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Cardinal tetras
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Black phantom tetras
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Rummy nosed tetras
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Bloodfin tetras
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Lemon tetras
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Silvertip tetras
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Bleeding heart tetras
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Flame tetras
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Mexican tetras
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Marble hatchet
Related to Tetra (order Chalciformes)
Carnegiella strigata, 1 1/2 inches
5.5 - 7.5 pH, 5-18 dH, 72-82 F
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Silver Hachetfish
Gasteropelecus levis
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Common Hachetfish
Gasteropelecus sternicla
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CATFISH
Egg layers, bottom dwellers
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BRONZE CATFISH
Corydoras aeneus
Up to 2 inches, pH 5.8-7.0, hardness 2-30 dH, temp 72-79
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BANDIT CATFISH
Corydoras metae
Up to 2 inches, pH 6.5-7.0, hardness 4-5 dH, temp 72-79
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PLECOSTOMUS CATFISH
family: Loricariidae& Callichthyidae
armored, mailed, & plated catfish
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ROUND GOBY
Neogobius melanostomus4-10 inches; Great Lakes
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LOACHES
Egg layers, bottom dwellers
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Clown LoachChromobotia macracanthusupto 12 inches Sumatra & Borneo
75-86 F
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Dojo (Weather) Loach
Misgurnus anguillcaudatusUp to 10 inches, SE Asia
50 - 77 F
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KILLIFISH
Toothed carpegg layers
Cyprinodontidae
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Devil’s Hole Pupfish
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Aphyosemion arnoldi
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Aphyosemion australe
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Aphyosemion australe
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Aphyosemion arnoldi
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Aphyosemion bivittatum ekondo
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Aphyosemion bivittatum biafra
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Aphyosemion cognatum
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Aphyosemion liberien
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Rivulus amphoreus
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Rivulus magdelenae
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Rivulus xiphideus
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Danio rerio
Zebra Fish• Minnow family• Native from Pakistan to Myanmar• Important aquarium fish and and
vertebrate model organism