None of the fish offered through Select Aquatics is particularly difficult to keep. There are a few with a reputation for being
    challenging to maintain or breed, but are very hardy and willing to breed as any other species by addressing a few variables.  
    Each of the practices addressed are specific to this fishroom. Tap water is 7.4pH, 100 ppm, ambient temperature is 74-78 summer,  
    and 68-74 winter. Heaters are used selectively, and water is changed 15% per day. For more information on this fishroom, see  
    Fishroom,  Fishkeeping Tips 1  and Plants. Following this are more specific guidelines regarding each species.

   When considering temperature, swordtails are kept slightly warmer, up to 80 degrees, and goodeids are kept slightly cooler, never
    passing 76 degrees if possible. Both are kept above 70-72 degrees. When keeping them, water changes of 10-20% per week should
    be adequate. Here at Select Aquatics the fish are fed a variety of dry foods, Baby Brine Shrimp (BBS), daphnia raised in out door tubs
    and chopped earthworms. At a minimum, all fish are fed 2-4 times per day with two dry food feedings and regular live or frozen
    food per day. However, all will do fine and breed with a good quality dry food fed at least once daily, occasional live foods and regular
    water changes of at least 10- 20% weekly.

    Though the pages and references throughout the site may change for various species as they go in and out of availability, all of the
    care guides for all of the species will stay linked from this page for long term reference and convenience.
   

    A few tips:

    Fry generally do better when raised in slightly warmer temperatures. They will eat more vigorously, grow more quickly and get past
    their most fragile stages quickly. Livebearer fry can be raised at 78-80, goodeid fry 75-77.

    Feeding is done 2-3 times per day, making two passes, about 5 minutes apart, through the fishroom each feeding.

    Always cover a new tank containing a gravid female. Also be sure to cover the tank when fish are new to the environment.
    Swords in particular will jump when put into in a new, especially confining body of water. Once established, they generally won’t jump,
    especially if a layer of floating plants such as riccia or duckweed are present.

    Provided you have the tank space, it is best to allow a female that has just dropped fry to spend a few days away from the other adults
    to recuperate.

 

    Specific species info:

 

    Alfaro cultratus

    Ameca splendens   

    Characodon lateralis

    Danio roseus

    Ilyodon furcidens

    Jenynsia lineata

    Limia nigrofasciata

    Limia "Tiger"

    Neocaridina Shrimp

    Plecostomus "Green Dragon"

    Poecilia reticulata Purple Delta

    Puntius padamya "Odessa"

    Skiffia multipunctata

    Xenotoca eiseni

    Xiphophorus alvarezi

    Xiphophorus alvarezi Albino

    Xiphophorus alvarezi Gold

    Xiphophorus helleri Rio Otapa

    Xiphophorus mayae

    Xiphophorus mayae High Fin

    Xiphophorus montezumae

    Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl

    Zoogeneticus tequila

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