How To Choose the Right Fuss-Free Fish To Suit Your Lifestyle

Are you an aquarium fish lover who simply does not have much time to spend on your favorite hobby?

Or

Are you new to the world of fish keeping and absolutely clueless about what to do besides dispensing ready-to-eat fish food and changing the water?

With such amazing array of fish species available, you won’t have much trouble picking out a hardy and easy-to-care for variety to build up your aquarium, make life easier for yourself and better the survival odds for your fish.

To increase your chances of success, consult experienced fish hobbyists or aquarium dealers for advice, and bear in mind the following:

5 Tips on Choosing the Right Fuss-Free Fish To Suit Your Lifestyle

1. Choose the Right Number of Fish

Having more fish means more fish food, more waste products and more maintenance. A few large fish add up to the equivalent to many smaller ones, so if you prefer variety, have a good mix of several different types of smaller fish rather than just a few larger ones.

2. Choose Fish that are Easy to Feed

Forget about finicky eaters or carnivores. These creatures usually thrive on diets that include special supplements or copious amounts of live food, which you may have to breed, catch or purchase regularly, store, clean, cut up or prepare to make them more digestible for your fish.

Go for fish that won’t reject flake food, frozen brine shrimp and other frozen foods requiring minimal preparation which can simply be dropped into the aquarium in a second. You can keep them healthy and happy with the occasional good meal of dried algae, bloodworms or other nutritious feed.

3. Choose Fish that Don’t Get Sick Easily

The tougher the fish, the better. Find out which are the tough ones and stick with them. Avoid those that tend to succumb easily to parasitic infestations and/or bacterial infections. Fish like discus, for instance, are highly sensitive to water quality and require extra care.

However good your intentions are, fish are indeed complicated creates—they can still get sick and die, or act in strange ways for reasons unknown to us.

It’s even harder to keep them alive if you don’t have the knowledge or time to care for them, so avoid buying fish just because they look exquisite or exotic.

4. Choose Fish that are Easy to Get Along With

There’s nothing more dreadful for a fish hobbyist than discovering dead fish in their aquarium. Choose species that are non-territorial in nature and you will reduce the likelihood of your fish getting injured or killed by others in the tank.

5. Choose Fish that are Useful

If you keep a community aquarium, try to choose at least one or two fish that will be beneficial to their environment. For instance, those that include algae (which will inevitably grow in your aquarium) in their diets are great live garbage disposal systems!

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