Paradise fish
Macropodus opercularis
What it needs
- Grows to
- 9 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 110 L, at least 75 cm long
- Temperature
- 16 to 26 °C
- pH
- 6 to 8
- Hardness
- 5 to 20 dGH
- Kept in
- ones or pairs
- Temperament
- aggressive
- Eats
- omnivore
- Swims
- at every level
- How hard
- easy
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether paradise fish fit the tank you have.