butterfly Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Hi there my daughter has a speech to do for school on tropical fish. We need the address of a great web site that explains where tropical fish come from. I know they are found in coral reefes around the world but what reefes and where exactly. Stupid I know that I dont know, I just breed them in my tank lol Ness :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
je_suis_ketan Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I know they are found in coral reefs around the world but what reefs and where exactly. Ness :bounce: When you say Tropical do you mean fresh or salt water? Fresh water fish won't come from coral reefs. Any particular breeds of fish you want info on? If you do then try a search on Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org/) I'm sure there is a tsunami of info there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterfly Posted July 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Hiya thanks for the reply fresh water tropical fish any other site that one you gave me is limited Ness :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markoshark Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 How on earth is wikipedia "limited" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Fish Find a species of fish, and click search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
je_suis_ketan Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fr ... sh_species Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
je_suis_ketan Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I noticed that Bettas weren't on the previous list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betta Couldn't help myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markoshark Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Perhaps she would like to know where the rift lake Chichlids come from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Malawi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tanganika Or, perhaps the Amazon River Basin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River_Basin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianab Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 By definiation tropical fish are fish from the tropics... Most every permanant bit of fresh water has some sort of fish living it it. The more interesting ones get caught and sold to fish keepers, or bred on fish farms then sold. To research any particular fish you can go to a page like the Wikipedia link above and look up that species. The description will include it's native range. So I can look up my Gibby catfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygoplichthys_gibbiceps and find that "In the wild these fish are found in shoals in sluggish rivers of the Amazon and Orinoco river systems, they also occupy flooded land during the wet season. " As there are hundreds of common species it's probably best to just pick a few well known species and research where they come from and get a good spread around the world. Cheers Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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