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I found this neat table for a general compatibility between fish species.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/fwcompatibility_chart.cfm

comments?

Its quite nifty, we should do one for this site, although it has the odd error, angelfish and guppies for example, adult angels can eat the good ol guppy.The same is true of a few other species too, they havent paid enough attention to predation issues, but its better than nothing for the beginner. The cichlid entries are too general as well but its a handy way to give people a quick clue as to how things work.

Suckermouth cats also have a caution rating with platies and mollies? Swordtails with new world cichlids, er how about a dovi? Sharks should get a caution with most smaller fish and so on depending on species. Its not perfect, the info is imprecise, but it is a very good idea, I think you could increase the size of the grid about about 5 times though .

Overall a nice idea, but poorly executed on the fishkeeping knowledge. I like the presentation of it though.

I've seen this chart before and it is indeed a nice little tool for a beginner to get started with and something like this would be a nice project for this site. One thing that I noticed is that the little cross that follows your mouse to make the chart easier to use doesn't work in firefox but does work in Internet Explorer.

Yeah, it seems very general, but I thought it was a good starting point, and very handy, how it's set up.

Yeah, pretty general and not complete. Example, it needs to be more specific.

My tank, I've got tiger barbs, mollies, danios, clouds, platies, rainbows, and loaches, and cats and they're a big happy family.

Listen! Do you smell that?

You must have huge tank, wow!! How big?? How many Tiger Barbs??

You can also see the profiles & compatibility of the fish on this site & it's quite good. The chart you have is also good, but the fish profiles are more detailed & interesting.


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