Question: Tropical Fish Crash Course!?
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Answer #1:
IF YOU DONT KNOW WHY DID YOU TAKE THE JOBthere are far far too many things you need to know and im not going to sit here and type for several hours to make it easy for you.go to your local library and get a book,if you can revise that at least youl have some sound knowledge
Answer #2:
All of this is too complicated to go into here, because conditions for each species are different.Are you asking about freshwater tropical fish, or marine tropical fish, or both?
It would be a very good idea for you to read at least a couple of good books on aquarium fish before you go to your interview.
Answer #3:
Living conditions for tropical fish is usually in rice patties like bettas and guppies sometimes live in puddles and streams. Other tropical fish live in lakes and other places like that.You usually feed them the size of their eye balls. So that is about a tiny pinch per fish. They usually like flakes like tetra min but bettas and other fish like oscars sometimes like pellets. Bettas also like brine shrimp. Oscars sometimes eat live fish even though it's not healthy for them.
The average water temperature for tropical fis is around 78°-80° and sometimes you have to raise the temperature to 82°-84° because of diseases like fungus and ich.
Some well known tropical fish include:
Betta
Blue Gourami
Dwarf Gourami
Kissing Gourami
Silver Arowana
Chinese Algae Eater
Corydoras Catfish
Iridescent Shark
Otocinclus Catfish
Plecostomus
Zebra Pleco
Black Neon Tetra
Black Phantom Tetra
Black Skirt Tetra
Bleeding Heart Tetra
Bloodfin Tetra
Buenos Aires Tetra
Cardinal Tetra
Head and Tail Light Tetra
Glowlight Tetra
Neon Tetra
Piranhas
Pristella Tetra
Red Belly Pacu
Red Colombian Tetra
Red Eye Tetra
Rummy Nose Tetra
Serpae Tetra
Silver Dollar
White Skirt Tetra
Afra Cichlid
Angelfish
Blue Ram Cichlid
Cockatoo Cichlid
Convict Cichlid
Discus
Firemouth Cichlid
Jack Dempsey
Jewel Cichlid
Kenyi Cichlid
Kribensis Cichlid
Oscar
Blood Red Parrot Cichlid
Polit Cichlid
Red Devil Cichlid
Yellow Lab Cichlid
Zebra Cichlid
Bala Shark
Cherry Barb
Gold Barb
Goldfish
Harlequin Rasbora
Koi
Odessa Barb
Rainbow Shark
Red Tail Shark
Rosy Barb
Scissor Tail Rasbora
Tiger Barb
Tinfoil Barb
White Cloud
Mountain Minnow
Zebra Danio
Clown Loach
Dojo Loach
Hillstream Loach
Kuhli Loach
Endlers Livebearer
Guppy
Mollies
Platy
Swordtails
Crayfish
(aka Crawfish or Crawdad)
Ghost Shrimp
Gold Inca Snail
Semi Aggressive fish don't get along with peaceful fish, For example oscars and goldfish.
Aggressive an aggressive fish usually get along, like flowerhorns and oscars
Male bettas NEVER go together
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Good Luck!
Answer #4:
Those tropical fish you saw when you were scuba diving were marine fish. The pet store is more likely to mostly stock freshwater, often with a small amount of saltwater also.Tropical fish habitats vary from continent to continent, and that's also not including sub-tropical and coldwater fish. All of those apply to the temperature of the water. Salinity is different saltwater/marine is seawater, freshwater is river water, and brackish is estuarine water (like mangrove swamps etc). You can get coldwater marine and coldwater freshwater etc etc.
A Goldfish for example is coldwater and freshwater. They are entirely ornamental man-made fish. Actually a bit of a bully and gets very large. They're exceptionally messy and surprisingly high maintenance!
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A Neon Tetra is tropical and freshwater. They do exist in the same form in the wild, but pet store ones are farmed and exported. They originally come from the Amazon.
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The Guppy is also tropical and freshwater. Wild type Guppies are a bit boring looking, the ones in a pet store have brightly coloured tails which are again, man-made (as in line-bred). The fancy ones are fragile critters too.
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There's just three of some of the many most commonly found fish in pet stores.
As for care and general information, start here:
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Have a look on the above two latter forums, read all the pinned topics.
Some quick things to remember:
*NO fish should live in a bowl and NO fish should live without a filter
*A fish does NOT "grow to the size of its tank".
*ALL tanks when first set up will go through the nitrogen cycle, there's no easy way around this unless you already have an established tank running. The nitrogen cycle kills fish and takes 2-6 weeks at least to complete from scratch. A lot of shops offer to test a tank's water before they sell fish to people.
*For the above reason you CANNOT sell a tank and fish at the same time!
EDIT: Which store in Essex? I'm an essex girl myself and good aquatic stores in Essex are few and far between! You may get stuck in a rubbish one!
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