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Red Tail Sharks
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Here are some of our Red Tail Sharks swimming in and out of pieces of plastic pipe. If you put pieces of pipe in your aquarium, be sure
they are not toxic to your fish. |
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Scientific Name:
Labeo bicolor |
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Comments
When the picture at the top of this page was taken, there were over 150 Red Tail Sharks in the aquarium. When they live together in large
numbers in a large aquarium, they get along well with each other. They quarrel but almost never hurt one another. But if you have less than six sharks in the same aquarium, they'll begin to quarrel, and the weakest ones will be miserable. So if you keep Red Tail Sharks, keep
one or keep several, but don't keep just a few together. This guideline is true for most aggressive fish.
Red Tail Sharks are beautiful, energetic, hardy, and rather aggressive to other Sharks. Red Tail Sharks are usually more aggressive than Rainbow Sharks. Click
here
for information about Rainbow Sharks. Most sharks are not aggressive to other types of fish. So sharks make good tank mates for many types of fish. But it's best to have just one Red Tail Shark or one
Rainbow Shark in an aquarium, or more than six, but not just a few.
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Appropriate Home
An aquarium with at least 20 gallon of water, an
exterior power
filter with a BIO-Wheel, a maximum of 1/4 inch of
gravel, and an
aquarium
heater adjusted to keep the water between 76 and 80 degrees F. Eventually Red Tail Sharks will need an aquarium with at least 40 gallons of water. Click
here
for more about warm water aquariums.
All Sharks are jumpers, so the aquarium that they live in must have a cover with no holes. Click
here
for more information about aquarium covers.
Red Tail Sharks need a piece of pipe or a cave. The pieces of pipe, shown in the pictures on this page, were cut from a long pieces of pipe that we bought at Home
Depot. Before we put the pieces of pipe in our aquariums, we cleaned them in warm water. Next we tested them in a small aquarium with a few fish to be sure they weren't toxic.
Finally we put the cleaned pieces of pipe in our large aquariums with lots of fish. You might prefer to buy an ornamental cave or rocks that are labeled for use in
aquariums. Such caves and rocks are available in most stores
that sell pet fish and
in some online stores
like the ones that
advertise on this web
site. Click
here for more about how to avoid
contaminating your aquarium. |
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Most Sharks,
Loaches, and Eels love
Cichlid Stones, which
are natural looking
ceramic aquarium caves .
Click
here for more about
Cichlid Stones.
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Recommended Diet
Floating
flake food. Perhaps some sinking food pellets but be careful because uneaten
food will soon spoil and pollute the water.
Be sure to always use a small net to remove uneaten food after
about 10 minutes. Click
here
for more about feeding fish. I feed these fish a few Black Worms every other day. Click
here for more about Black Worms.
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Picture
Gallery
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Compatibility
Only one Red Tail Shark or
Rainbow Shark or
Pink
Rainbow Shark to an aquarium, or many, but not just a few. Otherwise, the strongest Shark will make the others miserable. All
Gouramis, all
Barbs including
Tinfoil
Barbs, all
Danios, all
Rainbows, a school of
Bala
Sharks, and a school of
Clown Loaches. Click
here to read more about several other groups of compatible fish.
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Size and Lifespan
Red Tail Sharks live for several years and grow slowly to a length of 5" and rarely even longer.
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Customer Comments and our Replies about Red Tail Sharks.
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About our Fish Photographs ...
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Almost all the photographs and videos, shown on this web site, were taken
by us in our aquariums of our fish. Compare the healthy,
beautiful, energetic fish in our beautiful aquariums to the
fish in our competitors pictures. Their fish often look thin
with clamped fins and poor color.
We buy the highest quality fish, produced by the best fish
farms or caught by the best collectors of wild fish, then we take incredibly good care of our fish in our beautiful aquariums. If you compare the pictures on this site to our competitors pictures, you can instantly see, our fish and aquariums are better!
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