The Basics To Keeping Freshwater Tropical Fish

Welcome to the hobby of keeping tropical fish

This web page was written to share the fishkeeping knowledge gained when first keeping tropical fish.

One of the Beginners Fishkeeping team says "I have a Juwel Rio 400 as my main aquarium, but keep several breeding projects on the go in smaller tanks. I've managed to breed Endlers Livebearers, Guppies, Swordtails, Danios and Kribensis. Current projects include Tetras and Barbs. I wanted to share both the successes and the solutions I found to problems, that's why I'm with this site."

We hope you enjoy and benefit from this beginners guide to keeping tropical fish.

We think there's three big secrets for successful fishkeeping:-

1. Don't focus on keeping fish, focus on keeping the water right. The fish will thrive with good water.
2. Research your fish. You can never know too much, and you'll never know anywhere near all that's to be known about any species. Be interested in every species you keep.
3. Fish can be left for days and days without food with no harm done. But over feed your fish and lots will die. Feed sparsely.

Tropical Fish

Rainbow fish

Malawi's

Livebearers

Botia

Sharks / Loaches

Discus

Angel-fish

Dwarf Cichlids

Cichlids

Danios / Barilius

Catfish

Barbs

Antobantids

Tetras / Rasboras / Minnows