TROPICAL FISH MANAGEMENT Michelle Rutz-Mendicino.

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1 TROPICAL FISH MANAGEMENT Michelle Rutz-Mendicino

2 Tank Components Water tight glass tank Lamp/Light Canopy Heater Filter (under-gravel, over-tank, canister) Gravel Air Source Plants/Wood/Accessories

3 The Nitrogen Cycle http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/management/Nitrogen%2520Cycle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/manage ment/Pearce_Les_Filtration_Nitrogen_Cycle.html&h=379&w=600&sz=40&tbnid=wlnlLw4oqs6CkM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=135&zoom=1&docid=wcBTqTbfAAGltM&hl=en &sa=X&ei=kOKET7epOcrs2QXIvuXvCA&sqi=2&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAw&dur=46

4 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

5 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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7 Fish Disease Parasitic –Ich Bacterial –Streptococcus iniae –Edwardsiella spp. –Aeromonas spp. –Mycobacterium spp. Viral Fungal –Saprolegnia

8 Fish Disease

9 TOOTHED CARP Livebearers guppies, mollies, platys, swordtails family: Poeciliidae

10 Male Guppy

11 Poecilia reticulata - many-colored netlike guppy - up to 2 1/2 inches male female

12 Guppies (male)

13 Poecilia latipinna & Poecilia sphenops mollies - 4 inches black mollie (male) black lyretail (male) gold mollies

14 Xiphophorous maculatus (platy or moonfish) - 2 1/2 inches & Xiphophorous variatus (varigated platy or variatus platy - 3 inches platy (male) platy (female) sunset platy

15 Xiphophorus helleri velvet swordtail (female) AKA green swordtail male

16 LABYRINTH FISH families: Anabantidae, Belontidae, Helostomatidae, Osphronemidae betta, gourami

17 Betta splendens betta, Siamese fighting fish 3 inches wild caught malefemale

18 bettasbettas

19 Colisa lalia (6-8 inches) dwarf gourami red gourami

20 Pearl gourami

21 Opaline gourami Trichogaster trichopterus Blue or three spot gourami

22 CICHLIDS South and Central American

23 Angelfish - cross of Pterophllum scalare and P. eimekei Silver angelfish up to 20 inches

24 Black angelfish Gold marble angelfish

25 Discus Family: Cichlidae Species: - Symphysodon aequifasciatus - Symphysodon discus soft water, 80-84 º F average lifespan - 10 years average size - up to 12 inches

26 Leopard discus

27 Discus

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29 Jack Dempsey Cichlasoma octofasciatum soft water, 72-77 º F average size - up to 8 inches

30 Firemouth Cichlid Thorichthys meeki soft water, 72-77 º F average size - up to 6 inches

31 Convict Cichlid Amatitlania nigrofasciata soft water, 72-77 º F average size - up to 4.5 inches

32 Long Finned Oscar Astronotus ocellatus soft water, 72-77 º F average size - up to 18 inches

33 Tiger Oscars

34 CICHLIDS African

35 Lakes Tanganyika, Victoria and Malawi

36 CHARACINS Schooling fish Tetras, Hatchetfish Leporinus, Silver dollars

37 Neon tetras Black skirt tetras

38 Green neon tetras Black neon tetras

39 Cardinal tetras

40 Black phantom tetras

41 Rummy nosed tetras

42 Bloodfin tetras

43 Lemon tetras

44 Silvertip tetras

45 Bleeding heart tetras

46 Flame tetras

47 Mexican tetras

48 Marble hatchet Related to Tetra (order Chalciformes) Carnegiella strigata, 1 1/2 inches 5.5 - 7.5 pH, 5-18 dH, 72-82 F

49 Silver Hachetfish Gasteropelecus levis

50 Common Hachetfish Gasteropelecus sternicla

51 CATFISH Egg layers, bottom dwellers

52 BRONZE CATFISH Corydoras aeneus Up to 2 inches, pH 5.8-7.0, hardness 2-30 dH, temp 72-79

53 BANDIT CATFISH Corydoras metae Up to 2 inches, pH 6.5-7.0, hardness 4-5 dH, temp 72-79

54 PLECOSTOMUS CATFISH family: Loricariidae & Callichthyidae armored, mailed, & plated catfish

55 ROUND GOBY Neogobius melanostomus 4-10 inches; Great Lakes

56 LOACHES Egg layers, bottom dwellers

57 Clown Loach Chromobotia macracanthusup to 12 inches Sumatra & Borneo 75-86 F

58 Dojo (Weather) Loach Misgurnus anguillcaudatus Up to 10 inches, SE Asia 50 - 77 F

59 KILLIFISH Toothed carp egg layers Cyprinodontidae

60 Devil’s Hole Pupfish

61 Aphyosemion arnoldi

62 Aphyosemion australe

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64 Aphyosemion arnoldi

65 Aphyosemion bivittatum ekondo

66 Aphyosemion bivittatum biafra

67 Aphyosemion cognatum

68 Aphyosemion liberien

69 Rivulus amphoreus

70 Rivulus magdelenae

71 Rivulus xiphideus

72 Danio rerio Zebra Fish Minnow family Native from Pakistan to Myanmar Important aquarium fish and and vertebrate model organism