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Tropical Fish Species Guide

What is tropical fish.

Tropical fish species guide. The bristlenose pleco is a very common pleco catfish species that people tend to choose over the common pleco because of its smaller size. Several species of panaque are popular aquarium fish. Generally guppies grow to a maximum length of about 1 1 5 inches from head to tail and do well in a school.

They are small extremely colorful and very easy to care for. They are often the brightest colored thanks to pigmented and iridescent cells on their skin. Though they all started as a wild species lots are now bred from captive specimens and this means even more colors are available.

Guppies are tropical fish that originate from the rivers of south america. Usually a bristlenose pleco will grow up to 5 inches long which is a lot smaller than the common pleco that grows up to 24 inches. Even so this species needs a lot of space to thrive in.

77 86 f 25 30 c whiptail catfish. A tropical fish is one which lives between 74 80 f but it can come from both saltwater or freshwater. The three common aquarium species are known as l 018 l 081 and l 177.