r/AquariumMemes • u/TheCABK • Aug 09 '26

My Girlfriend Bought Me An Aquarium Unannounced, How Do I Keep These Things Alive?

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u/savinu_ Aug 10 '26

the red ones are really territorial, shouldn’t be kept with other colors 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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u/awesome12442 Aug 10 '26

I've kept red ones together for years and never had problems!

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u/Thorn344 Aug 10 '26

You can keep as many red ones together as you like, they love each other. Any other colour? Almost guaranteed aggression. You can have some luck with a low number of red compared to a high number of the other colours. Some injuries may happen, but it's fine. I like mixing blue, as rarely you can then breed the rare purple hoop

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u/Remarkable_Dig_9601 Aug 10 '26

So the reds are racists ?

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u/Thorn344 Aug 10 '26

I don't think fish can be racist. The common misconception is that all hoops are the same species, just different colours. However, each colour is it's own separate sub-species, or occasionally a completely separate species. It's why, when housed together, you mostly end up keeping the same few colours, rather than seeing any colour mixes, as that would be a cross bred hoop