1. TROPICAL FISH MANAGEMENT
FISH EXAMPLES

3. livebearers guppies, mollies, platys, swordtails
TOOTHED CARP
livebearers
guppies, mollies, platys, swordtails
family: Poeciliidae

4. Male Guppy
anal fin moved forward - modified into gonopodium

5. Poecilia reticulata - many-colored netlike
female
male
Poecilia reticulata - many-colored netlike
guppy - up to 2 1/2 inches

6. Guppies (male)

7. black lyretail (male) black mollie (male) gold mollies
Poecilia latipinna &
Poecilia sphenops
mollies - 4 inches

8. platy (female) platy (male) sunset platy
Xiphophorous maculatus (platy or moonfish) - 2 1/2 inches &
Xiphophorous variatus (varigated platy or variatus platy - 3 inches

9. velvet swordtail (female)
Xiphophorus helleri
velvet swordtail (female)
male

10. families: Anabantidae, Belontidae, Helostomatidae, Osphronemidae
LABYRINTH FISH
betta, gourami
families: Anabantidae, Belontidae, Helostomatidae, Osphronemidae

11. betta, Siamese fighting fish
wild caught male
female
Betta splendens
betta, Siamese fighting fish
3 inches

12. bettas

13. red gourami
dwarf gourami
Colisa lalia (6-8 inches)

14. Pearl gourami

15. Blue or three spot gourami
Opaline gourami
Trichogaster trichopterus

16. CICHLIDS

17. angelfish - cross of Pterophllum scalare and P. eimekei
silver angelfish
up to 20 inches
angelfish - cross of Pterophllum scalare and P. eimekei

18. black angelfish
gold marble angelfish

19. average lifespan - 10 years average size - up to 12 inches
discus
family: Cichlidae
species: Symphysodon aequifasciatus
& Symphysodon discus
soft water, º F
average lifespan - 10 years
average size - up to 12 inches

20. leopard discus

21. discus

22. Cichlasoma octofasciatum average size - up to 8 inches
Jack Dempsey
Cichlasoma octofasciatum
soft water, º F
average size - up to 8 inches

26. tetras, hatchetfish leporinus, silver dollars
CHARACINS
tetras, hatchetfish
leporinus, silver dollars

27. black skirt tetras
cardinal tetras

28. Carnigiella strigata, 1 1/2 inches
marble hatchet
Carnigiella strigata, 1 1/2 inches
pH, 5-18 dH, F

29. CATFISH
egg layers

30. BRONZE CATFISH Corydoras aeneus
Up to 2 inches, pH , hardness 2-30 dH, temp 72-79

31. BANDIT CATFISH Corydoras metae
Up to 2 inches, pH , hardness 4-5 dH, temp 72-79

32. armored, mailed, & plated catfish
PLECOSTOMUS CATFISH
family: Loricariidae
& Callichthyidae
armored, mailed, & plated catfish

33. Neogobius melanostomus 4-10 inches; Great Lakes
ROUND GOBY
Neogobius melanostomus
4-10 inches; Great Lakes

34. LOACHES
egg layers

35. Botia macracanthus up to 12 inches Sumatra & Borneo 75-86 F
CLOWN LOACH

36. toothed carp egg layers Cyprinodontidae
KILLIFISH
toothed carp
egg layers
Cyprinodontidae

37. Aphyosemion arnoldi

38. Aphyosemion australi

39. Aphyosemion australi

40. Aphyosemion arnoldi

41. Aphyosemion bivittatum ekondo

42. Aphyosemion bivittatum biafra

43. Aphyosemion cognatum

44. Aphyosemion liberien

45. Rivulus amphoreus

46. Rivulus magdelenae

47. Rivulus xiphideus