Community aquarium
The community aquarium is a specific form of an aquarium and represents the opposite of a species aquarium , in which holding conditions are created that are specifically geared towards a fish or invertebrate species . Community aquariums are the typical form with which beginning aquarists get into this hobby.
Peaceful fish that have the same holding conditions are socialized. This can already be an Amazon basin , in which particularly low pH values prevail, or a normal freshwater aquarium with a pH value in the neutral range. A number of invertebrates such as bee shrimp or the zebra snail can also be kept in a community aquarium.
Many tetra species, which are often kept together with armored catfish , are suitable for community aquariums. The platy is also one of the species that are regularly used in such aquariums. As a cold water fish, the goldfish is not suitable for a warm water community aquarium, as it is native to cold water (a cold water aquarium is indicated here).
literature
- Kaspar Horst and Horst E. Kipper : The optimal aquarium - guidelines for setting up and maintaining the freshwater aquarium , Ad aquadocumenta Verlag, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-925916-15-6
- Hans-Georg Evers : Fish in the community aquarium . Tetra-Verlag 1999. ISBN 978-3897451308