How to Take Care of Oscar Fish

Oscars are a very popular member of the cichlid family that are often favored as a single exhibit or kept in pairs. Oscar fish care requires research and understanding of the fish's psyche and social behavior. Care of Oscar fish also requires knowledge of their growth rate as well. Taking care of fish brings into question, just how do you take care of a fish properly?

How to Take Care of Oscar Fish

Oscar fish care requires a bit of understanding of the fish and the pet health care it will take to maintain the fish itself. Oscar fish are one of the more popular aquarium fish, despite their aggressive nature against other fish. Oscar fish keeping requires a good size tank, at least thirty gallons is required for Oscar fish. In establishing an aquarium environment for Oscars, one must remember that an Oscar may start out small but will gradually become a larger fish, possibly topping out at 18 inches long and weighing in around 3.5 pounds. like most fish, will eat anything that fits into their mouths. What makes this tendency so harmful to possible tank mates in Oscars is that they have exceptionally large mouths in proportion to the rest of their body and will gladly eat things that are too long for their mouth, just so they can get it in well enough.

As with all large fish, the aquarium that houses an Oscar should be no smaller than twice as wide and four times as long as the fish's length to ensure it has plenty of room to move. The aquarium should have a sturdy hood as Oscars are jumpers, as well as filtration that turns over ten times the

Peach Anthias Care

They are commonly called peach anthias because of their coloration. Their overall body color is yellowish orange. Females typically have peach colored upper bodies and pale lavender to white underbodies. They also have stripes on their tales. Males have bright red dorsal fins and lack the tail striping. This species ranges in size from 3-5 inches. They have an average life expectancy of 3-5 years.

Peach Anthias Care Level : Moderate to Difficult

These fish are considered reef safe and will make excellent additions to your marine reef tank. In the ocean, they are commonly found on the outer reefs where there is very strong water movements and providing strong water movement using multiple powerheads in your aquarium will most likely be rewarded with increased activity from this fish. Open tops could spell trouble with these beauties because they will jump when frightened.

Many anthias demonstrate intolerance to bright light. The dispar is a shallow water swimmer and therefore accustomed to higher light levels. However you should provide them with plenty of living rock both to hide in and around and as a source of nutrition.

How to Care for Lionfish

How to Care for Lionfish

Despite their differences in size, the true lionfish and the dwarf lionfish have similar captive habitat requirements (except, of course, for minimum tank size). Lionfish have a reputation as being remarkably hearty fish (second only to damsels some say), and while this is true, some care should be taken to provide lionfish with an environment that meets their species-specific needs.


Lionfish are not known to be particularly territorial and will share their cave or other place of refuge with members of their own species or other lionfish species. Having said this, keep in mind that recommended stocking densities for true lionfish are about 40 gallons per lionfish (and about half that for the dwarfs). They prefer coral reefs and rocky outcrops, although they have occasionally also been found in mangroves, seagrasses, lagoons, and harbors. The maximum size seems to be about 15 inches.


Lionfish are voracious predators. When hunting, they corner prey using their large fins and then use their quick reflexes to swallow the prey whole. They hunt primarily from late afternoon to dawn. In captivity, lionfish can be trained to eat frozen krill and mysis.

How to Care for Clown Fish

How to Care for Clown Fish

Clownfish do need a fair amount of care as opposed to other fish. You will need to provide a stable saltwater aquarium for them to live in. You need to look up the specific instructions for the type of clownfish you want to house and then adjust accordingly with your aquarium size. After you pick out the aquarium, you are going to need to find the appropriate lighting and filtration systems to place in the aquarium. You have to have a good filtration system to provide the best possible environment for the clownfish.


The aquarium should be at least 40 litres and at best 70 litres with a monitored salinity of 1.205. The best thing to give the Clown fish is real seawater and then fill the tank with natural sea sand and crushed marble. If you become really expert at keeping a tropical aquarium going, then adding a sea anemone would be nice. To complete the natural environment approximately up to 2kg of live rock can added.


You should add a sea anemone that is compatible with the species of clownfish that you pick. Clownfish have a symbiotic relationship with Sea Anemones and it is recommended that you place the two together for the best possible results. Also you can see how the clownfish interacts with the anemone. Anemones can be very hard to keep alive in the aquarium, and it is definitely not recommended for beginning aquarium owners. Sea Anemones generally do not live more than 2 years even with the experienced aquarium owner.

Saltwater Fish Care

Saltwater Fish Care

A:
African Flameback
Axelrods clown blenny
Axilspot Hogfish

B:
Bandfin cardinalfish
Banggai cardinal fish
Bicolor Angelfish
Bicolor blenny
Bicolor Foxface Rabbitfish
Bigeye cardinalfish
Bignose unicornfish
Blackcap Gramma
Blackfin Hogfish
Blackfinned Clownfish
Black Striped Angelfish
Black triggerfish
Blackbar triggerfish
Blackbelly triggerfish
Blackstripe cardinalfish
Black Velvet Angelfish
Blackspot Angelfish
Blacktail Angelfish
Blue Angelfish
Blueface Angelfish
Bluehead Fairy Wrasse
Blue tang surgeonfish
Cherub AngelfishBluespotted Angelfish
Bluespotted triggerfish
Bluethroat triggerfish
Boomerang triggerfish
Brazilian Gramma
Bridled cardinalfish
Brown Combtooth Blenny
Brown surgeonfish

C:
Cherub Angelfish
Chestnut eyelash blenny
Chevron tang
Chinese trumpetfish
Chocolate surgeonfish
Cinnamon Clownfish
Clarkii Clownfish
Clown triggerfish
Cockatoo waspfish
Comical blenny
Convict surgeonfish
Convict surgeonfish (Desc 2)
Cook's cardinalfish
Coral Beauty
Coral Hogfish
Coral Rabbitfish
Cortez Angelfish
Cuban Hogfish

D:
Desjardin's sailfin tang
Doederlein's cardinalfish
Dog toothed cardinalfish
Doubleband surgeonfish
Drab sole

E:
Eight Lined Wrasse
Elongate surgeonfish
Emperor Angelfish
Eyestriped surgeonfish
Exquisite Fairy Wrasse

F:
False cleanerfish
Finescale triggerfish
Finespotted Fairy Wrasse
Five-lined cardinalfish
Flamefish
Flame Angelfish
Foxface Rabbitfish
French Angelfish

G:
Gilded triggerfish
Golden Angelfish
Goldspotted Rabbitfish
Gray Angelfish
Gray unicornfish
Great Barrier Reef blenny
Green Chromis
Grey triggerfish

H:
Halfback Angelfish
Halfmoon picassofish
Halfmoon triggerfish
Hartzfeld's cardinalfish
Hogchoker
Humpback unicornfish

I:
Indian triggerfish
Iridescent cardinalfish

J:
Japanese surgeonfish

K:
Keyhole Angelfish
Korean Angelfish

L:
Large toothed cardinalfish
Large-scale triggerfish
Lemonpeel Angelfish
Leopard blenny
Linear blenny
Lined sole
Linguado
Live sharksucker
Longnose surgeonfish
Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse
Lyretail Hogfish

M:
Maroon Clownfish
Magnificent Rabbitfish
Masked Rabbitfish
Masked triggerfish
Majestic Angelfish
Mango Angelfish
Midnight Angelfish

N:
Nalolo

O:
Ocean surgeon
Ocean triggerfish
Ocellaris Clownfish
Ochre-striped cardinalfish
Onespot Foxface Rabbitfish
Orange Angelfish
Orange-lined triggerfish
Orange Skunk Anemonefish
Orangeside triggerfish
Orangespine unicornfish
Orbiculate cardinalfish
Ornate Wrasse

P:
Painted frogfish
Pajama cardinalfish
Palette surgeonfish
Passer Angelfish
Percula Clownfish
Persian blenny
Picasso triggerfish
Pink Skunk Clownfish
Pinktail triggerfish
Potter's Angelfish
Purplemask angelfish

Q:
Queen Angelfish
Queen triggerfish
Queensland blenny

R:
Red Sea mimic blenny
Redfin Fairy Wrasse
Redmargin Fairy Wrasse
Red-speckled blenny
Redtail triggerfish
Redtoothed triggerfish
Ring-tailed cardinalfish
Royal Gramma
Rock Beauty
Rusty Angelfish

S:
Saddleback Clownfish
Saddleback Hogfish
Saddle Clownfish
Sailfin tang
Sargassum triggerfish
Scribbled Angelfish
Scott's Fairy Wrasse
Seale's cardinalfish
Shaggy angler
Sixbanded Angelfish
Skunk Clownfish
Sleek unicornfish
Sohal surgeonfish
Spanish Hogfish
Social Wrasse
Solor Fairy Wrasse
Spotted oceanic triggerfish
Spotted surgeonfish
Spotted tang
Spotted unicornfish - Naso brevirostris
Spotted unicornfish - Naso maculatus
Spotted Hogfish
Stone triggerfish
Striated frogfish
Striated surgeonfish
Striped triggerfish
Striped-fin surgeonfish

T:
Talbot's blenny
Thompson's surgeonfish
Threadfin cardinalfish
Titan triggerfish
Tomato Clownfish
Tomini surgeonfish
Twospot surgeonfish
Twotone tang

U:

V:
Vermiculated Angelfish
Virgate Rabbitfish

W:
Warty frogfish
Watanabe's Angelfish
Wedge-tail triggerfish
Whitetail Pygmy Angelfish
White jawed cardinalfish
Whitemargin unicornfish
Wolf Cardinalfish
Wolf eel
Wolf fish

X:

Y:
Yellow tang
Yellow Angelfish
Yellowbar Angelfish
Yellow Hogfish
Yellow-spotted triggerfish
Yellowmargin triggerfish
Yellowstreaked Fairy Wrasse
Yellowstriped cardinalfish
Yellowtail surgeonfish
Yellow-tailed damsel
Yellowtail tang

Z:

Freshwater Fish Care

Freshwater Fish Care

A:
Afra Cichlid
African Butterfly Cichlid
African Butter Catfish
African Knife Fish
African Snakehead
Agassiz' Dwarf Cichlid
Akar betta
Albino Cory
El Abra Pygmy Swordtail
Amiet's Lyretail
Asian Arowana
Archerfish
Argus Fish
Arnoldi
Aulonocara Maulana
Aulonocara Benga
Australian Pearl Arowana
Azureus Cichlid

B:
Badis
Bala Shark
Banded Knife Fish
Bangka Snakehead
Baram Snakehead
Barca Snakehead
Batik Loach
Banded Bichir
Banded Shovelnose Catfish
Barred Knife Fish
Barred Sorubim
Bearded Cory
Beauty Mouthbrooder
Bengal Danio
Bigtooth River Stingray
Bishop livebearer
Black Arowana
Black Banded Leporinus
Black Barred Myleus
Black Diamond Gold Piranha
Blackfinned Snakehead
Black Ghost Knife
Black Neon Tetra
Black Piranha
Black Phantom tetra
Blackskirt Tetra
Bleeding Heart Tetra
Benny Tetra
Blue Gourami
Blue Discus
Big Eye Mouthbrooder
Big Toothed Piranha
Black Pacu
Black Small Fighter
Blind Cavefish
Bloodfin Tetra
Blotched Snakehead
Blue Acara
Blue Band Mouthbrooder
Blue Convict Cichlid
Blue Panda Apisto
Bluespotted Snakehead
Blyth's Loach
Bolivian ram
Brandti Piranha
Bream
Brilliant rasbora
Bristlenosed Catfish
Brown Betta
Brown's Betta
Brown Discus
Bucktoothed Tetra
Buenos Aires Tetra
Bulldog Pleco
Bullseye Snakehead
Burmese Snakehead

C:
Cardinal Tetra
Catemaco Livebearer
Celebes Halfbeak
Ceylon Snakehead
Chel Snakehead
Cherry Barb
Chevron Snakehead
Chilumba
Chinese Snakehead
Cinnamon Killifish
Clown Barb
Clown Killifish
Clown Killi
Clown Knife Fish
Clown Loach
Clown Pleco
Cockatoo dwarf Cichlid
Comma Swordtail
Compressed Cichlid
Congo Blackfin
Congo Tetra
Congo Tetra (profile 2)
Convict Cichlid
Coolie Loach
Cortes Swordtail
Cross River Puffer
Crystel Eyed Catfish
Cochu's Blue Tetra
D:

Demasoni Cichlid
Diamond tetra
Dovii Cichlid
Double Lipspot Mouthbrooder
Duckbill Catfish
Dusky Piranha
Dwarf Croaking Gourami
Dwarf Gourami
Dwarf Livebearer
Dwarf Loach
Dwarf Mouthbrooder (Betta)
Dwarf Snakehead
Duboisi Cichlid

E:
Electric Blue Hap
Electric Catfish
Electric Yellow Lab
El Quince Swordtail
Emperor Snakehead
Eureka Cichlid
Eyespot Mouthbrooder

F:
Fahaka Puffer
Father Strohs Mouthbrooder
Figure Eight Puffer
Firebird Cichlid
Firemouth Cichlid
Firehead cichlid
Flag acara
Flagtailed Catfish
Flame Tetra
Flier Cichlid
Forrest Betta
Freshwater Barracuda
Freshwater Barracuda (species 2)
Freshwater Butterflyfish
Freshwater Garfish
Freshwater Gar Fish - Profile 2
Freshwater Moray Eel - Echidna rhodochilus
Freshwater Moray Eel - Gymnothorax tile
Frontosa Cichlid
Fundulopanchax avichang
Fundulopanchax batesii

G:
German Blue Ram
Geryi Piranha
Ghost Knife Fish
Giant Betta
Giant Danio
Giant Snakehead
Glass Knife Fish
Glass catfish
Glowlight Tetra
Golden Nugget Pleco
Golden Snakehead
Gold Gourami
Gold Mixteco
Grant's Peacock cichlid
Gray Bichir
Green Discus
Green terror
Green Throat Mouthbrooder
Green Puffer
Green Severum
Green Terror Cichlid
Guppy
Guyana Leaffish

H:
Halfbeak
Heller's Cichlid
High Backed Pygme Swordtail
Highland Platy
Highland Swordtail
Hikari Danio
Hogchoker
Holland's Piranha
Honey Gourami
Hoplo Catfish
Hora's Loach
Horsefaced Loach
Humeralis Piranha

I:
Indian Glassfish
Indonesian Datnoid
Inle Snakehead

J:
Jack Demspey Cichlid
Javan Mouthbrooding Fighting Fish
Jelly Bean Tetra
Julii Cory

K:
Kadango Cichlid
Keyhole Cichlid
Knife Livebearer
Koi Carp

L:
Lamp eye tetra
Leopard Danio
Leopard Cory
Leporinus
Lesser Bleeding Heart Tetra
Lesser Spiny Eel
Lyretail Killifish
Lyre Tail Pleco

M:
Madagascar Rainbowfish
Maison's Peacock
Malawi Eyebiter
Malebo Puffer
Marbled Hatchet
Marbled Hatchet (profile 2)
Marbled Headstander
Mbu Puffer
Mekong Puffer
Midas Cichlid
Monterray Platy
Montezuma Swordtail
Moonlight Gourami
Mossaic Stingray
Motoro Sting Ray
Mousetail Knife fish
Muzquiz Platy

N:
Neon Tetra
New Ediths Mouthbrooder
Niger Snakehead
Night Snakehead
Nijsseni's Dwarf Cichlid
Norman's Lampeye
Northern Mountain Swordtail
Northern Platy
Northern Snakehead

O:
Ocellated Puffer Fish
Ocellated Snakehead
Otocinclus
Olive Danio
One Spot Mouthbrooder
Oscar
Orange Finned Danio
Orangespotted Snakehead
Ornate Bichir
Ornate Pim
Ornate Tetra
Oscar Fish
Otocinclus Catfish

P:
Pacman catfish
Panaw Snakehead
Panda cory
Paradise Fish
Pareutropius bueffei
Peaceful Betta
Peacock Mouthbrooder
Pearl Danio
Pearl Gourami
Penguin Tetra
Peppered Corydoras
Pepper Tetra
Pictus Catfish
Pike Livebearer
Pike Piranha
Pineapple Discus
Pinche Piranha
Pingi Logsucker
Pink Tailed Chalceus
Piraya Piranha
Platy
Plumed Lyretail
Polka Dot Loach
Polka Dot Ray
Powder Blue Cichlid
Pretty Tetra
Purple Spotted Gudgeon

Q:
Queen Loach

R:
Rainbow Snakehead
Rainbow Shark
Red Belly Pacu
Redbelly Piranha
Red-blotched River Stingray
Redbreast acara
Red Devil
Red Dwarf Rasbora
Red Empress Cichlid
Red Eyed Tetra
Red Heckles Discus
Red Hook Silver Dollar
Red jewel cichlid
Redish Dwarf Fighter
Red Port Acara
Red Sumatran Fighter
Red Tailed Catfish
Red Tailed Hemiodopsis
Red Tailed Shark
Red Terror Cichlid
Red Zebra
Rio Aloyac Platy
Rose Danio
Rosen's Hybrid Platy
Royal pleco
Rummy Nose Tetra
Rummynose Tetra

S:
Sabretooth Tetra
Sailfin Molly
Sailfin Pim
San Juan Cory
Schallers Mouthbrooder
Schwartz's Cory
Scissortail
Serrated Piranha
Serpae Tetra
Sheepshead Swordtail
Severum
Siamese Algae Eater
Siamese Fighting Fish
Sieve Cichlid
Silver Datnoid
Silver Dollar (Metynnis hypsauchen)
Silver Dollar (Metynnis argenteus)
Silver hatchetfish
Silver Hemiodopsis
Silver Mylossoma
Silver Prochilodus
Silvertip Tetra
Simple Mouthbrooder
Simor Fighter
Skunk Botia
Skunk Cory
Slender Betta
Slender Hemiodus
Slender Pygme Swordtail
Small Fin Fighter
Smaragd Fighting Fish
Smooth Back River Stingray
Snakeskin Gourami
Spike Tail Platy
Splendid Snakehead
Spotted Pike Characin
Speckled Platy
Spotted cachorro
Spotted Green Puffer
Spotted Silver Dollar
Spotted Snakehead
Spotted Talking Catfish
Socolof's Tetra
Sterbai Cory Cat
Sterlet
Striped barb
Striped Silver Dollar
Striped Panchax
Swordtail
Swordtail Characin

T:
Tail Light Tetra
T-Bar Cichlid
Tenuis Tetra
Ten Spotted Livebearer
Texas Cichlid
Three Lined Cory
Thick Lib Gourami
Thinbar Datnoid
Three lined mouthbrooder
Three Spot Tetra
Tiger Barb
Tiger Botia
Tiretrack Eels
Tomi Mouthbrooder
Tigrinus Catfish
Tramitichromis intermedius
Tricolor Cichlid
Twin Spot Flag Cichlid
Turquoise Cichlid
Tussys Small Red Fighter

U:
Umbie
Umbrella Cichlid
Upland Swordtail
Upside-down Catfish

V:

Viejita Apisto

W:
Wasers Mouthbrooder
Wessel's Cichlid
West African Lungfish
Western Mosquitofish
White Cloud Mountain Minnow
White Piranha
Widebar Datnoid
Wimple Piranha
Wine Red Betta
Wolf Fish

X:

Y:
Yellow Acara
Yellow King Piranha
Yellow Swordtail
YoYo Loach (Pakistani Loach)

Z:
Zebra Danio
Zebra Loach

Aquarium Setup

An aquarist owns fish or maintains an aquarium, typically constructed of glass or high strength plastic. Cuboid aquaria are also known as fish tanks or simply tanks, while bowl-shaped aquaria are also known as fish bowls. Size can range from a small glass bowl to immense public aquaria. Specialized equipment maintains appropriate water quality and other characteristics suitable for the aquarium's residents.

Aquarium Setup

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