Popular Goldfish Types and Pictures

Goldfish including fish species that have existed since a long time or even arguably be the first fish species kept as ornamental fish.

This ornamental fish is native to China and have a physique that is very funny and fun to look at. The relaxed style of swimming and crawling at the bottom of the water looks calm.

The young Goldfish colors are usually the same, namely the gray, then after the adolescence or adulthood will look colorful. Goldfish has a variety of attractive colors and as the development of creativity in crossbreeding techniques, the combination of goldfish colors and goldfish shapes are increasingly varied so that keep popping new types and varieties of goldfish.

Almost all the hobbyist usually love type of goldfish are round and plump. Getting fatter the body shape, will be increasingly popular. In some types of goldfish, a few have no dorsal fin, for example on the Bubble Eye goldfish type. The tail fin also vary, there is amount one or two, open or bloom, and there is have a long size.

There are about 14 popular goldfish varieties and spread among the hobbyist. However, there are only eight goldfish types that have a great demand among other things : Fan tail goldfish, Veil tail goldfish, Oranda goldfish, Lionhead, Pearl Scale, Bubble Eye, Calico, and the Black Moor.

Goldfish care actually is not difficult if we know the environmental conditions required. Goldfish really liked the clear water so that the aquarium water should be taken from a good source of water and precipitated for 24 hours plus aeration by aerator. Optimal water temperature for goldfish maintenance ranges from 20-25 °C and keep your water pH around 7.2 to 7.5 with medium hardness.

Tropical Platty Pictures

This tropical ornamental platyfish or Southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus or X. variatus or possibly a hybrid between these two species) is native to Mexico and Central America and closely related to Gambusia holbrooki (Gambusia) and swordtails.

Plattyfish is an exotic ornamental fish species kept as a tropical aquarium fish commonly sold from fish shops and aquarists. There are many platty fish types and varieties such as sunset, Hawaii, red coral, black tail, Samson, and platty forked widely spread in ornamental fish market.

Platty fish care actually very easy because plattyfish have a fairly high tolerance to various conditions or water quality. The platyfish is a non-migratory tropical freshwater fish preferring water temperatures between 18 - 25oC and a pH of 7 – 8. However, they have been shown to tolerate temperature extremes from 10 - 40oC and dissolved oxygen levels down to 3ppm. They feed on worms, crustaceans, insects and plant matter. Platyfish give birth to live young, typically become sexually mature from 4 months and can attain a maximum size of about 7cm. If the conditions are suitable platyfish can rapidly establish in large numbers.

The Platy fish prefer substrates such as mud, gravel, or silt and its also prefer to inhabit shallow slow moving streams and drainages, and stagnant waters such as ditches and pools, in particular where there is vegetation such as tree canopies and weedy banks.

The quality of plattyfish greatly affected by types. Coral red type for example, qualified if the body is rather short and red. While Samson type have a high qualified if its body elongated and stocky.

Platty fish commonly can be kept in the pool or open cement tanks with high density. However, that environment is often disturbed pests such as dragonfly larvae, small Argulus lice, and lernaea, thus platty susceptible attack by fish diseases. The dragonfly-larvae’s attack can cause skin of platty injured while Argulus lice and lernaea who entered by the feed will be attached to the skin of fish. This condition could be make the platty fish quality lower. Prevent to pests attack is by soaking platty fish in salt water or the abates solution.

The platyfish is a tough species but Its self also considered as a potential pest in countries where it has been introduced. Most pests are extremely difficult if not impossible to eradicate once established. Pest fish such as platy fish compete with native fish for food and space and many are able to survive in habitats that native fish cannot.

Paradise Gouramis First Ornamental Fish Aquarium in Europe

Macropodus opercularis fish better known by the name of Paradise Fish were one of the first freshwater ornamental fish are kept in the early days of the aquarium in Europe. The paradise fish or paradise gouramis, are small freshwater labyrinth fish found in ditches and paddy fields in East Asia, ranging from the Korean Peninsula to Northern Vietnam.

As the first ornamental fishes available to western aquarium keepers, Paradise Gouramis have been imported to Europe as early as the 1800s. These small fish (adults are typically about 10 cm (4")) are ideal lone inhabitants of aquariums. The paradise fish is one of the more aggressive members of its family, by being more aggressive than the blue gourami. Yet they are far less aggressive than the rarely kept Combtail.

Generally, Paradise Fish behaviour are fairly combative, harassing and attacking each other as well as potentially killing small fish. In the wild, they are predators, eating insects, invertebrates and small fish. The popularity of this species has waned in recent decades as much more colorful (and often, less pugnacious) species of gouramis have become widely available to hobbyists. However the privileges of paradise fish, this species is one of the few fish that can change its color (lighter or darker) in response to stimuli.

Other existing features of this fish maybe because paradise gouramis also tolerant of virtually any water conditions, surviving in cool and warm waters alike. They can be kept in outdoor ponds, or even the simplest of unheated aquariums. They will accept virtually any food, but should be given a reasonably high-protein diet (as opposed to vegetable-based foods of the sort sold for goldfish.)

Paradise fish are bubble nest builders. As is typical of most bettas and gouramis, Paradise fish spawning involves a male building a bubble nest with floating mat of saliva-coated air bubbles, often incorporating plant matter and then attracting a female to it.

Breeding can be triggered by raising the temperature, although have found that they will breed in winter with no apparent change in environmental conditions. When the female is ready to mate she will approach the male and turn on her side. The male wraps his body around hers, and she releases eggs at the same time that he releases sperm. The eggs are lighter than water and float up into the nest. The male gathers the fertilized eggs after each embrace, spitting them up into the bubble nest.

After spawning, the male has no further use for the female and may violently attack her (and any other fish that approaches the nest.) Once the fry hatch and have begun to swim freely, the male is best removed and the fry raised on infusoria or newly hatched brine shrimp.

In Taiwan the native populations of Paradise Fish have been reduced to low levels by pollution in the rivers, and now it is listed in Taiwan as a threatened species. The Aedes mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is breeding in the absence of one of its main predators, and dengue fever is threatening the Human population.

Feeding Tiger Barb Fish

Pellet feed on ornamental fish aquarium was made for a healthy and long-lived as well as generate an optimal color, so not too much fat content. Ornamental fish generally eat pellets feed or flakes which have absorbed the water, it means the water had to be absorbed by the feed before being eaten by fish, not after being in the digestive tract.

But apparently there are few species of ornamental fish such as Tiger Barb (Barbus Tetrazona) who grabbed the feed so fast sometimes even food have not had time to absorb water. As a result, we will see Tiger Barb fish are swimming with a diagonal position or with head downwards, because its digestion disrupted.

To prevent this, give time the flakes to absorb water. The trick is to hold the flakes in water for a few seconds before released, or drop the flakes near the outflow of the filter pump, so that the feed will be drifted and absorb water before the fish eaten.

No longer in a hurry when feeding your Tiger Barb fish or other ornamental fish aquarium, so that your ornamental fish can live healthy, long-lived and pulled out the optimum color.

Beautiful Maanvis Pictures | Angel Fish

These following pictures below are the photo gallery of Maanvis fish (Pterophyllum scalare), which includes ornamental fish cichlid species with distinctive appearance, which is graceful, gentle, and beautiful.

If Discus fish got nickname as 'King of Freshwater Aquarium' then the Maanvis fish nickname was 'Queen of Freshwater Aquarium' or also said as 'Angelfish'.

From the results of interbreed made by hobbies or breeder, maanvis produced a variety of colors, like black and white (BW), black, tricolor, yellow, and albino. Currently, the famous maanvis fish species are yellow plain white with red eyes light up. Prices of this type are relatively expensive than other maanvis types.

Maanvis including the ornamental fish types which are easily to breeding because quite often lay eggs. Maanvis also quite tolerant with a variety of water conditions. So it is quite easy in care. But, to get best quality of maanvis fish, its required special attention because of the long tie of maanvis fish was frangible. Besides the fish skin is easily scratched, and the long fins on the maanvis fish is perishable, easily rotten or torn.

The damaged fins of maanvis can usually be repaired with a good care when the fish are immature, but when it occurs in adult maanvis fish, the such damages could not recover.

Frontosa : Cichlids from Lake Tanganyika

Frontosa characteristic lies in her zebra-print black and white with vertical lines or a combination of dark blue, silver, and yellow. These colors make the cyphotilapia frontosa be varied. Another characteristic is at the head of frontosa that similar with lou han fish, which it has a lump on his face.

Frontosa fish usually have a fat body shape and looks sturdy. however, cyphotilapia frontosa has a graceful carriage because including the slow-moving ornamental fish type, which is happy to swim slowly. For an ornamental fish, frontosa favored because of the kind of peaceful, benign, and not fierce so the owner can freely do appear or feeding frontosa without fear of being hit.

African cichlids Frontosa lives at great depths (bottom dweller) in Lake Tanganyika and often suffers from swim bladders problems for wild caught fishes. They are mostly restricted to the rocky areas in the wild. They are rather intolerant of poor water condition and demand regular, frequent water but small water changes.

Frontosa Fish Profiles :

Distribution : Lake Tanganyika (Endemic)

Size : Up to 14 inches for Male, smaller for female. Growth rate appear to be slow under captivity.

PH : 8.6 to 9.5

Temperature : 22 to 29 0 C (higher temperature for breeding).

Hardness : Hard to very hard, alkaline water.

Diet : Piscivore. Flake, freeze fried & frozen and pellet food. Live food such as prawns and earthworms. Not advisable to give them floating food.

Breeding : Open polygamous, mouth brooder.

Sexual Difference : Males are much larger with longer flowing fins and well developed nuchal hump (not always accurate).

It's best to keep frontosa in groups from small as the males are very intolerant of each other. Growing them up together has the advantage of establishing the "pecking" order early to prevent over-aggressiveness to establish dominance in the tank.

Arowana The Fish of God

Color and shape of this tropical fish pictures which is the strong attraction and make arowana become a one of a famous freshwater ornamental fishes. Even for some people, this fish is regarded as the bearer of hockey to become another attraction for the fans.

Based on its origin, this tropical fish divided into 2 groups. First, The Arowana fish originating from Brazil and the second arowana from Indonesia (Asia). Brazilian Arowana the shape was flat sideways elongated and tapered toward the tail. The dorsal fin and pelvic fins also extends to the tail so the tail fin to appear narrow. The composition between scales less or not so obvious. However, the majority of these breed of Arowana was silvery white or black.

There are two types of Arowana native of Indonesia. First, Sclerophagus Formous which originated from Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sumatra and the second species, which originating from Irian (New Guinea). Both breeds of these freshwater fish arowana's has the same body, which is rather thick and extends, but does not taper toward the tail. Shape of his head straight with a wide mouth facing upwards. Big eyes and mutter in his lower lip. Dorsal and pelvic fins toward the tail is relatively small. Pectoral fin nearly triangular shape with a size not too big and a rounded tail fin. The size of the large scales with formation of a visible making this tropical fish looks very interesting.

In world markets, compared to The Silver Sclerophagus Jardini from Papua - Sclerophagus formous from Kalimantan and Sumatra have a more high price and known by the nickname as "The Star of Indonesian Ornamental Fish".

The color of this tropical fish is really diverse. But the most expensive and popular is the red. According to belief, arowana fish - especially the red also known as "The Fish of God" that brings a good luck. Not surprisingly, the price of this fish can reach thousands of dollars per tail.