Kids with Fish

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Fish can be a fun addition for your child's room. Having a fish tank can be a great way to teach them some responsibility as well. A small 5 gallon tank is good size to start your kids out with.

This can be a great size to keep a beta in. A thirty gallon tank is needed if you are looking for schooling fish.

When setting up a large tank you need to run a back filter rated for a 30 gallon tank.

You can't over filter, so going with a filter over rated for your tank can be good. If you are keeping tropical fish you will need to invest in a tank heater rated for 30 gallons.

Tropical fish need to have water a bit warmer than room temperature.

So what fish do you think you should keep? Kids definiately love fish that are brightly colored. Most people naturally think about gold fish. Unfortunately gold fish require much larger tank because they are such messy fish. Harlequin rasboras or cardinal tetras might be a better choice. You can keep about seven of these each, very nicely. Adding a few cory cat fish can be done as well, as they work great with schooling fish.

Another fun option would be to get five tiger barbs, five albino tiger barbs, and five moss barbs. These fish are more aggresive, but they are schooling fish. These fish like to nip fins, so they should't be kept with other fish.

The kids really enjoy having fish in their own rooms because they are able to be resonsible for them. Plus the white noise from the water falling helps your kids to sleep a bit better.