| Custom fish tanks allow you to show off your | | | | When populating an aquarium it is important to |
| colorful fish in all their glory. Have you ever | | | | educate yourself as to the habits of the |
| wondered why these beautiful creatures come in | | | | prospective inhabitants. Not only do you have a |
| so many different colors and patterns? Usually | | | | duty to feed and house them properly, you |
| the color is there to protect the fish from their | | | | should also avoid putting species together that are |
| predators. They are designed to blend into the | | | | known to fight or eat each other in the wild. If |
| background so although a clown fish looks | | | | you care for your fish properly they may live |
| amazing in a custom aquarium, in the wild they | | | | longer than they would have done in the wild. It |
| probably go largely unnoticed as they blend into | | | | depends on a lot of factors not least the species. |
| the coral background. This protects them from | | | | Never mix marine and freshwater fishes. They |
| attack by predators looking for food. | | | | have developed in totally different ways. The |
| If you have a Sargassum fish (its proper name is | | | | freshwater fishes have to excrete large amounts |
| Histrio histrio) in your custom fish tanks, be | | | | of urine every day in order not to literally burst |
| careful with your choice of other inhabitants in | | | | with water whereas marine fish drink lots of |
| your growing community. This fish and its cousins | | | | water to replace lost fluids. Usually coldwater |
| the Anglerfishes and frogfishes will delight in eating | | | | fishes will live longer than the tropical ones and for |
| other fish of a similar size to themselves. In the | | | | some reason the bigger the adult fish, the more |
| deep, their colors allow them to hide undetected | | | | likely they will live a longer than usual lifespan in |
| in the seaweed lying in wait for their next dinner | | | | custom fish tank. |
| to swim by. | | | | |