First Fish

Where the hell
do you start...?

On of my earliest post I outline what my key species would be, the beautiful Black or Brown Ghost Knife Fish. So my question to my local aquarium was what can i put into my new aquarium as a start up species?

This aspect is at the moment the hardest part of setting up my tank. There is always the problem that something you put in as a starter species might inevitably become food for a species later down the line. In fact I believe it might actually have been easier for me to start up if i had just put some "bait" in my tank but i didn't.

Instead i decided to take some advice and got two different species both of which i was assured would be hearty enough to cope with the changing environment. I got:

• 1 x Tire Track Eel (£5)
  
• 2x Spotted Climbing Perch (Leopard Ctenopoma) (£9 each)
  

This wasn't a cheap start up group of fish so i did wait nearly 3 weeks to make sure the water chemistry was correct and have been checking every few days since i introduced the fish. So far so good.

Question now is.... whats my second fish?

-- David