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Jim has over thirty years experience working in a tropical fish store. He started cleaning aquariums for a local pet store at the age of 13. He has kept most every kind of aquarium fish and was one of the first people to successfully breed marine angelfish in captivity. His love for the water got him involved in competitive swimming and coaching. He still swims with a Masters program and recently started competing in triathlons. He earned a degree in Marine Biology from the University of Maryland where he is a founding father of the Maryland chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Jim has volunteered at the National Aquarium and has given many talks about tropical fish and live coral husbandry to local “fish” clubs. He opened Tropical Fish World in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1989. It is a 3000 square foot “local” aquarium. Many people visit the store just to look around. It was featured in a Washington Post Magazine article, “Things to Do off the Beaten Path” which suggested walking around the aquarium after eating a meal at the local Dim Sum restaurant. Currently, Jim is involved in setting up and monitoring large custom aquariums that he installs in homes and businesses in the area. He uses an automatic water changing system which allows him to monitor the aquariums from a remote location. He resides in Gaithersburg, Maryland with his three children and can be found in the store most days where he continues to help people enjoy the hobby.

Understanding Fish Compatibility for Your Aquarium

Jim Karanikas demonstrates the ways to maintain your aquarium and keep those fish happy.

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Jim Karanikas: Hi, I am Jim from Tropical Fish World and I will talk to you a little bit about fish compatibility. One of the biggest issues that aquariums might have is like what fish go with what other fish. Some fish beat up other fish. May one fish eat another fish. So, I want to try to just simplify this for you. First of all, you want to make sure that if you are putting two fish together in the aquarium that one doesn't have a mouth big enough to fit another one of it's tank mates in its mouth. It's the matter what kind of fish it is, it's probably going to try to eat the other fish if it could fit in its mouth.

Alright so you would never want to put fish this big, with mouths of that big or like the cat fish down here in the bottom that eventually get larger and with small fish like these guys right here because those certainly have mouths big enough to fit these in it and trust me they will try to eat them. Now, there are many many groups of fish and a lot of compatibility issues that fish have. Most of them, I can teach you in just a few minutes. So, it's best to talk to an expert at an aquarium store to let him help you choose the right fish for your aquarium. There are fish that get really large, if you want to ask the question how big is this fish going to get in my aquarium. So that if you are going to match it with some smaller fish, when it grows, it's not going to eat the smaller fish in your tank. Alright let's talk about some diseases, fish might get and how to recognize when fish aren't healthy or not feeling well.

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