没有真正的“困难”鱼;在有人进来之前，他们在大海中幸存下来并收集它们。他们知道他们需要什么，如果我们在海中研究了他们，我们也会知道他们需要什么，并不总是关于food(though most of the time, it is).
There is a reason different fish come from different places—why Moorish idols come from the South Pacific and not Coney Island, why mandarins come from the Philippines and not Bayonne, New Jersey. I have spent time underwater with most of the fish I have ever kept, and I learned more from swimming a few minutes with them than from all the articles I ever read about them.
吃不平等蓬勃发展
我们作为Aquarishers有一大堆鱼清单，有些人认为很难。我说这条鱼并不困难，但是，水族家们要么懒惰，要么只是不知道鱼所应该吃什么。并非所有鱼都会茁壮成长“正常”的水族馆票价。许多人会吃它，但吃东西并不总是茁壮成长。
It is not the fishes’ fault if we can’t (or don’t want to) have the correct food on hand. I used to buy certain fish that had a bad reputation for dying because of not eating. I would figure that I am just smarter than anyone else, so I will just feed what I usually feed and the fish will be fine. But I was not as smart as I thought, and I lost plenty of fish with that type of thinking.
How many people buy a Moorish Idol and feed it pellets, mysis, and flakes and wonder why that fish lived only a few months to a year? How many mandarins die in people’s tanks even though they were “taught” to eat pellets or mysis? How many twinspot gobies are lost? Why do we lose so many copperband butterflies? Are Supermodels really that skinny? Oh, sorry, my mind drifts!
Some of those fish are not really difficult and are actually quite robust. They just have to be fed correctly.
普通话必须有豆荚
颗粒和肌肉是普通话的适当食物，虽然它们可能会吃它们，但它们也需要一堆“豆荚”(e.g., amphipods, copepods) every day or they will be short-lived.
A mandarin should live many years, not just three or four. As a matter of fact, I find mandarins to be among the easiest, lowest maintenance, most disease-resistant fish there are. But you can’t put one in a five-gallon tank that you started last Tuesday and teach it to eat ramen noodles while it watches Oprah Winfrey give away Cadillacs to homeless cats.
普通话需要豆荚 - 或类似豆荚，如新生儿盐水虾 - 和他们需要它们不仅每天，而且整天。如普通话（和蛇胺）的鱼类没有真正的胃，不能储存食物。因此，在15分钟后，任何颗粒都不会吃掉普通话不会做得很好，食物通过其消化系统，并在发现豆荚后尽快消除。
Ihatch brine shrimp every dayto feed my mandarins and pipefish, and they are all spawning. My tank is large and very old, so there are plenty of pods, but I want my fish to spawn. That is why I feed them live, newborn brine shrimp in addition to any pods they can catch.
Copperbands想要蠕虫
铜带蝴蝶是我最喜欢的鱼，我一直在留下它们
‘70s. They also have a bad reputation, and many people buy them just to try to eliminate绫杉anemones, which is a shame because they are arguably among the most interesting and beautiful fish we have access to. They are also very hardy and live over 10 years. Unfortunately you won’t have any luck breeding them in a normal home aquarium, as it is just too small for them.
由于几个原因，Copperbands对不吃的臭名昭着。They are almost never fed in stores because they don’t have the foods on hand that they need, and, like many fish with that skinny shape, they don’t stay healthy for long without food—not much fat on their bones, sort of like Paris Hilton. While copperbands may eat绫杉，它们显然是设计吃蠕虫。我和他们一起潜水，这就是他们需要吃的东西。他们还会吃mysis和蛤蜊，但蠕虫应该是日常饮食的一部分。
Being mostly shell, mysis is not a suitable food for copperbands to eat on a daily basis. Fish like copperbands (orlongnose butterflies）每天需要肉类食物，那种肉食应该是“整个”食物，如蛤蜊或更好，live blackworms. Some (very few) copperbands will eat pellets, and even fewer will eat flakes, but they will be short lived on that type of diet.
不要剥落！
谈到薄片，我意识到许多爱好者每天都使用它们，我知道企业赚钱。虽然有一些茁壮成长的鱼 - 例如，少女家族的鱼会在薄片上活良好 - 大多数鱼都需要补充喂养。为什么？因为薄片是干燥的。干粮不含油，因为油变坏（和臭）。如果我需要使用薄片或颗粒，我将鱼油添加到那些食物中，从而大大提高他们的营养。请记住，任何不需要冷藏并保持新月的食物都是充满防腐剂的，或者没有任何东西不含任何东西，因为维生素和石油没有冷藏。
渴望鱼的食肉动物
然后我们有更大的肉ivores such as the lionfishes and moray eels. Those types of fish don’t need variety; they just need fish—whole fish, not fish fillets or shrimp tails. They also don’t need goldfish. Small, whole saltwater silversides can be found in an LFS, and that is what those fish should be fed. Live, saltwater fish would be better, but unless you live near the sea (like I do), it would be hard to collect such fish. You people in Arizona, stop looking because you won’t be able to collect those fish where you live, so you need to move or keep kissing gouramis.
有些鱼类存在特殊挑战
由于不同的原因，许多鱼在家庭水族馆里有困难。阴影，豹子，鹦鹉鱼和肉耳，蝙蝠鱼变得巨大。除了具有包含大量海绵的饮食之外，摩尔人偶像偶像，生活在配对的对（无论如何，我也看到了一堆独奏）。
有些鱼有其他担忧，不能在家庭水族馆容易地容纳。例如，虾鱼生活在海胆的脊柱中;扁平鱼，如鲷鱼，需要精美的沙子来埋葬;而最美丽的文件鱼，橙色斑点的大鱼，吃珊瑚息肉之一。因为他们的美丽，他们不幸的是经常出售，但很少有人可以保持一段时间，除非他们有很多珊瑚来喂鱼。
许多鹦嘴鱼咬住它们含有的藻类的死珊瑚基材。唐和外科手可以成功地保存，但这些类型的鱼总是住在学校，有时有数百或数千人。因此，我相信它们总是在水族馆的压力下，这解释了他们的“ICH磁铁”状态。
The prettier, the harder to keep
一般来说，如果鱼是非常不寻常或非常精美的色彩，则留在水族馆中更难。我不确定为什么，但最漂亮的Pipefish非常精致，也是最好的，最丰富多彩的海山，小鱼和各种微小的鹅卵石。这些生物肯定可以保存，但需要更多的护理和时间来满足他们的需求。
我也不知道为什么棕色，丑陋的鱼似乎永远活着。你几乎必须用1955年的oldsmobile跑过来，然后把它倒转并再次运行它们来杀死它们。当我驻扎在越南时，我本身就在一个10加仑的坦克中有一个丑陋的棕色鲶鱼。一年来，没有人喂它，看了，表演了一个water change，甚至甚至将水添加到坦克中。这件事直到我回家前一周。它在几英寸的水中。我不确定它如何或为什么死亡，但我确实注意到了Oldsmobile轮胎的背面打印。
