Knowing more on Tropical Fishes

Fishes are one of the most favorite pets among all other pets from children to older persons. Most of the people think of growing fish because of their attractiveness of various hues and different colors. Tropical fishes are the more popular fish variety throughout the world. From the name you can easily understand that tropical fishes are found in the tropical regions. Two different types of fishes available are fresh water fish and the salt water fish. Tropical fishes also comes under the category fresh water fishes.

The different types of tropical fishes available are as follows:

Oscars: Normally Oscars fishes comes under the category Tropical fish. There are three different types of oscar fishes available. They are the tiger oscar, the pink oscar and the red oscar. The characteristics of oscar fishes are more aggressive as compared to other tropical fishes. Oscar fishes are used to dominate other types of fishes. It is enough to have five to six oscar fishes in single fish tank.  One important thing about oscar fish is that you should keep single oscar fish or else more than six oscar fish in one single fish tank. A single oscar fish requires at least 80 gallons of water in an aquarium and six oscars need 500 gallons of water. Oscar fishes are more comfortable with sharks, because they won’t fight with each other.

Angelfish: Angelfish is one of the most beautiful and colorful fish than many other types of fishes. Basically, angelfishes were originated from Amazon River and classified under the category of pterophyllum genus. Normally three types of species are available in the Amazon River. They are pterophyllum altum, pterophyllum scalare and pterophyllum leopoldi. Prefect triangular structure of angel fish helps to hide under the stone, roots and plants. Like oscar fish, the angel fishes also has aggressive character. It is enough to keep six to seven fishes in single fish tank.

Tetra fish: The tetra fishes belongs to the category of characidae family. The tetra fishes lives in clear water like dark waters. It will grow up to 5cm in length.

Tiger barb: the tiger barbs are usually called by Sumatra barb because it is found in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and Bornea. The different colors of tiger barb available are brownish yellow color, and black vertical lines on the fish body. Tiger barbs are aggressive character like angel and oscar fish. It is enough to keep six tiger barbs in single fish tank.