Mixing Fish Breeds in One Tank

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CHRISTIE OWNES: Hi. My name is Christie and I'm with Expert Village and I'm teaching you proper care of fish today and a little bit about the different types of fish. Now we're going to talk about the different types of fish that you can mix together. There are good fish to mix together and there are not so good fish to mix together. When you're on a little bit more professional basis such as myself, sometimes you can get away with mixing fish in the tank that you're not supposed to mix bearing in mind that you can offer their needs as well as everybody else. You do have to keep a closer eye on the fish so that if you have one that will likely eat other fish, starts eating the smaller fish, you have to set up another tank in order to accommodate the fish that's being aggressive. I want to show you a few of the other fish that I have in the tank. I might go into a little bit detail on them but not as much detail. And in the tank, I've already explained the gold dust mollies, the African tetras, and the black skirt tetras. There is also a black neon in here which is the little guys who have the black and yellow with the silver bellies to them. Those are a schooling fish as well, like to be in schools of six to twelve or more. There is also a blue tetra in the bottom which you see in between the gold dust mollies. They're also schooling fish as well. And unfortunately, he's the last one out of six that I have. There is also another fish that you call a bottom feeder which is a scavenger fish which is the little Cory cat that I have right here in the front. There are six of them in this tank. But right now this little guy decides to come out and be friendly and shows his little self up. These guys like to be in schools of six because that makes them a happier fish. And I don't know if you can see back behind the driftwood piece but there is a pair of [INDISCERNIBLE] in the back which is an African dwarf cichlid, can have a little bit of aggression level to them when they're four inches. Being right now they have a little bit of about fifty babies. They are an egg layer. And the female laid her eggs inside of the driftwood and the babies hatched three days after she laid 'em and the parents are taking him out of their hiding places and take 'em on detour around in the tank to let them swim and get some exercise. I did have to watch these two when they had babies because they do like to chase the other fish, nip them, and they try to eat 'em every now and then if they get a chance to. And you're not supposed to mix goldfish with other fish, but I do have a gold fish in the tank. Watch this little guy right here. They are a cold water fish but this little guy was too little and too young to stay out of my big fishpond outside for the winter, so I had to catch him and bring him in. And unfortunately, I don't have my goldfish tank set up anymore so he got put in with the community guys. As you can tell, he's getting beat up a little bit by the ones who like to nip fins. During the summer, he's going to the back out into the fishpond where he can be happy with the bigger fish. Oh yeah, by the way, when you're buying a fish, try to keep in mind that it is one or two fish for every gallon of water. Unless you're willing to do weekly 75% water changes, you can stock more fish in your tank as you see in this tank. If you don't do the weekly water changes in a thirty gallon tank such as this one, I would probably only put in anywhere between ten to fifteen fish in it because if you put more than that, you have a lot more fish waste that you have to accommodate for and that means you have to do more water changes. On my tanks, I do 75% water changes weekly to accommodate the fish load. That's how I can get away with having so many fish in the tank.

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