What fish are easy to keep that get quite big something like oscars or catfish?
Posted on August 16th, 2009 by admin
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Hi i am wondering about getting some fish that will grow at the biggest about 18 inches and are easy to look after? Something like oscars or a kind of catfish?
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Hi i am wondering about getting some fish that will grow at the biggest about 18 inches and are easy to look after? Something like oscars or a kind of catfish?
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irridecent sharks can get up to 3 feet mine is 2 they are awsome you buy them when there 2-8 inches and watch them grow i recommend getting 2 beacuse one will die
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Freshwater Gars are cool fish but only eat live food. You will want to check out diets of different fish to see if you can supply what they need.
Many of the big species are live meat eaters.
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Koi get pretty big and so do Gold Fish, They grow when they have room to do so,
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Oscars only grow to about 12 to 14 inches.
Most big fish are easy to keep, if you have a really huge tank or pond for them. For an 18-inch fish, I’d say you’d need at least a 500-gallon tank. They are sometimes kept in smaller tanks (200 to 300 gallons), but the maintenance is more difficult and the fish is more stressed in such cramped quarters.
Here are a few fish in the size range you stated. Please read up on care of the individual species before you get one.
Giant Gourami (Osphronemus goramy)
Managuense (Paratheraps managuense)
Wolf Cichlid (Paratheraps dovii)
Peacock Bass (Cichla species)
Giant African Yellowbelly Cichlid (Boulengerochromis microlepis)
Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
Clown knife fish (Chitala or Notopterus chitala)
Electric Catfish (Malapterurus electricus)
Asian Arowana (Scleropages formosus)
Silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)
Red Snakehead (Channa micropeltes)
Walking Catfish (Clarias batrachus)
Koi (Cyprinus carpio)
Some of these fishes can get even bigger than 18 inches, but if you have a really big tank (500 gallons or over) as I have recommended, it should be sufficient.
Most of these fishes are predatory, and certain ones are illegal to keep in some places, so check the local fish and game laws before you get one.
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plecostomus get quite large given the room mine got 18″ in a 135 the pictus cat or shovel-nose cat are my favorite they get big also and the arrowana but they are voracious eaters
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Blue Channel catfish will become a good size, mine is 17 inches