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What large tropical fish can guppies be kept with?
Guppies are small and gentle and are easily bullied by large fish, so choose calm species with similar habits, such as the red arowana. Guppies and red arowana have similar water-quality needs and can share a tank. During mixed keeping, ensure ample space and food to avoid overcrowding or fighting.
Why do goldfish lose scales?
Goldfish lose scales from scraping hard objects like sharp stones in the tank, or from fighting, especially during breeding season over mates, and from high stocking density. Avoid sharp items and control density, lowering it during breeding season.
What Fish Can the Jewel Cichlid Be Kept With?
The jewel cichlid can be kept with parrot fish and map fish, but control stocking density by tank size to avoid fights. It is fierce and territorial, unsuited to gentle small fish it may bite.
What fish mix best with the flowerhorn cichlid?
Good tankmates: parrot fish, green terror, arowana, oscar, stingray. Flowerhorns are territorial and fierce—avoid small/gentle fish. Keep density right and feed enough to reduce fights.
What ornamental fish are good to keep in winter?
Good cold-tolerant fish: goldfish, koi, medaka (rice fish), Chinese fighting fish. They stay active and colorful in low temps. Goldfish are easy/cheap for beginners; koi are cold-hardy and undemanding but avoid big temperature swings.
What to Do When a Blood Parrot Fish’s Fins Rot
Fin rot in blood parrot fish is usually caused by poor water quality or injuries from fighting. Here is how to treat it with water changes, medication, and isolation.
What Fish Can Live with Parrot Fish?
Despite their feistiness, parrot fish mix well with map fish, fortune fish, silver arowana, flowerhorn, and pig-nosed turtles - choose by calm temper and different swimming zones to avoid conflict.
Why Does a Parrot Fish Have a White Film Over Its Eyes?
A white film over a parrot fish's eyes is usually cloud-eye disease, caused by poor water quality or injury letting bacteria in, excess nitrogen, or accompanying white-spot disease. Treatment depends on the cause: improve water and raise temperature for mild cases, add antibiotics and salt baths for infection, or treat the underlying white-spot disease.
What fish can be mixed with the star-spotted arowana?
It can mix with oscars, blood parrots, Siamese tigers, peacock bass, and stingrays. As a top-dwelling fish with strong territory sense, pair with mid- and bottom-dwellers to avoid fights; avoid large size gaps and control density to prevent bullying and territory fights.
What fish can be kept with parrot fish (blood parrot)?
Good tank mates for parrot fish include the oscar (map fish), red-tailed shark (fortune fish), silver arowana, and flowerhorn. Oscars are lazy and won't fight; fortune fish are gentle and dodge attacks; parrot fish stay at the bottom while silver arowana swim mid-to-upper, so they rarely conflict.