Tankofish

Author: DARREN BISHOP

  • Bubble Nest Where Some Fish Lay Eggs

    Bubble Nest Where Some Fish Lay Eggs

    A bubble nest sounds weird but it’s vital for some fish. Have you ever seen hundreds if not thousands of tiny bubbles on the surface of your tank? Certain fish like some catfish and Gouramies along with betta fish. Who is the more famous for doing this like building bubble nests?

    Let’s look at what these nests are for and why they make them. 

    What Are Bubble Nests

    Bubble nests are nests made by males to give somewhere safe for females to spawn their eggs these nests keep the eggs from predators and allow the parents to guard them until they hatch. read more

  • How Many Eggs Do Fish Lay The Most Is 300 Million Eggs

    How Many Eggs Do Fish Lay The Most Is 300 Million Eggs

    How many eggs do fish lay is a fascinating question we know fish have some incredible mating rituals. Fish dance and change colors some fish build nests to mate others hide in caves or ornaments. We also have fish called livebearers these fish give birth to live fully formed fry (baby fish)  so when fish lay eggs how many do they lay

    How Many Eggs Do Fish Lay

    90 % of bony fish lay eggs to be fertilized and then wait for the eggs to hatch. The record number of eggs laid is 300 million this was done by the ocean sunfish. The average amount of eggs laid is 1000 eggs. read more

  • Do Fish Lay Eggs? 90 Percent Of Bony Fish Do

    Do Fish Lay Eggs? 90 Percent Of Bony Fish Do

    Do fish lay eggs let’s investigate. There are many thousands of species of fish all being weird and wonderful in their own way but what about laying eggs?

    We’ve all heard of fish giving birth to free-swimming babies called fry. These fish are called livebearers. There are also nesters who build a nest for their young also mouthbrooders and of course, there’s the whole spawning.

    Let me explain keep reading and ill start by answering the question and then examine it in more detail.

    Do Fish Lay Eggs

    Yes, Approximately 90% of bony and 43% of cartilaginous fish are oviparous meaning these fish spawn eggs releasing them into the water to be fertilized and then hatching into fry. read more

  • What Do Fish Eggs Look Like? 23 Species Of Egg Examined

    What Do Fish Eggs Look Like? 23 Species Of Egg Examined

    What do fish eggs look like is a difficult question as there are a plethora of different types of egg-laying fish. So I thought let’s have a look at some of our most popular types of fish that lay eggs and detail what those eggs look like.

    Fun Fact 

    Did you know there are different types of egg-laying fish and many types of ways those fish lay and fertilize their eggs? More later.

    Before going any further. Here is a synopsis of the basic characteristics of what a fish egg looks like after giving this overview we can look at some of the different eggs involved. I’ve 23 for us to go over so enjoy.   read more

  • What Do Neon Tetra Eat? 27 Foods for healthy Fish

    What Do Neon Tetra Eat? 27 Foods for healthy Fish

    What do neon tetra eat? Let’s have a look and find out. There are some differences between what these little fish eat in the wild and what we feed them in our tanks. Described as being a crown jewel of our aquariums the neon tetra has become the favorite amongst hobbyists.

    Before cracking on with the main 27 foods to feed these amazing fish here’s a summary of what to feed them.

    What Do Neon Tetra Eat

    Neon tetras are omnivores hence eat anything they are not fussy 50 percent of their diet needs to be protein algae plant matter and brine shrimp are favorites. read more

  • Do Fish Hibernate What Is Torpor

    Do Fish Hibernate What Is Torpor

    What do wild fish do in the winter they don’t have heaters? Another crazy day thinking about fish and what they get up to. I’m sure you have heard that fish hibernate in the winter I know I’ve heard this many times over the years.

    Do fish hibernate? Let’s explore and find out. Tropical fish it would seem have no need to hibernate as it’s well warm enough all year round. Tropical fish in our tanks at home will slow down their metabolism if the temperature drops sharply. Does this mean they are able to hibernate? read more

  • Do Fish Feel Pain How We Know A Fish Is In Pain

    Do Fish Feel Pain How We Know A Fish Is In Pain

    Do fish feel pain? Have you ever sat and wondered if they feel at all and if they can feel pain. I’m sure like me you have. Pain is a subjective thing and we as humans can let people and inanimate objects know we are in pain. We scream and shout cuss fish can’t communicate their pain if they indeed have any.

    Fish don’t talk or scream in fact they don’t make much noise at all. So how would we know if they are in some discomfort do fish roll around in agony?

    Do Fish Feel Pain

    Scientific evidence indicates fish indeed feel pain they have a complex nervous system with neurons that signal the brain allowing the fish to be self-aware. read more

  • Do Fish Sleep Can We Tell If Fish Are Sleeping

    Do Fish Sleep Can We Tell If Fish Are Sleeping

    Do fish sleep? Great question right? Fish have no eyelids and can’t shut their eyes. Also fish have no cortex within the brain that usually allows us to dream.

    When we observe other animals and humans, we tend to see slower breathing, twitching of muscles, and movement of limbs. So we don’t see this in our fish the question is do fish sleep? Can we tell if the fish are sleeping?

    Do Fish Sleep

    Yes, fish sleep most will sleep at night we can observe lower gill mouth movent and less breathing a reduced metabolic rate, and a slow brain wave pattern.  read more

  • Can Fish Drown? Do You Have Enough Oxygenated Water

    Can Fish Drown? Do You Have Enough Oxygenated Water

    What’s going on in your aquarium? Are fish at the very top of the tank do they look like they are gasping for air? Yep fish need air well no they need oxygen and there’s oxygen in water too just not as much. 

    There are 210,000 parts per million of Oxygen in the air which equates to around 21 percent oxygen. What about water though well that’s only 8 parts per million of Oxygen in water which equates to under 0.1 percent.

    Fish need around 4 parts per million to function healthily. This is half of what’s generally in water making fish both very adept in fact amazing at getting oxygen out of water. As well as always being at risk of drowning.  read more

  • Low Tech Aquariums Are 1 Magic 2 Blissful

    Low Tech Aquariums Are 1 Magic 2 Blissful

    Once starting or joining the hobby you will find many terms that don’t make sense at first. It’s only natural terms like water buffing and scaping or should I say aquascaping? There are a plethora to choose from.

    In this post Id like to explain one such weird term Low tech aquariums. Low tech usually implies planted tanks. That run with no added filtration or any added co2 and only low-end natural lighting. No added tech. Making them extremely low maintenance.

    So What Are Low Tech Aquariums 

    Low tech aquariums usually have no filtration or extra co2 also once established very few water changes and almost no maintenance read more