nofishinginmytank
Fish Fanatic
I have been thinking about starting up a fish journal, to share my fish and all my weird but wonderful experiences with them and I have finally decided to go for it. Hopefully it won't be a total fail haha
So I had a gold fish when I was about 6, my sister also had one, they were never in bowls but the tank was no bigger than 15 litres. They both lived until they were about 4, looking back I know realize that it was cruel. When my little sister who was 8 was struggling to sleep at night a friend suggested to my mum about maybe getting some fish in her room with a relaxing light and it would give her something to watch. My mum thought that sounded good aswell, so she said I too could get some. I am not someone who can do something without doing some research be for hand, so I set about finding out as much as I could about fish. I spent the next 3 days researching tropical fish, tank sizes, fish breeds, fish less cycle etc. and decided a tank of at least 25 litres would be best.
I had a new found love for peppered cat fish and really wanted one. So we went to the local fish shop to buy some tanks. They had an offer on 40 litre tanks with a stand, light in the lid and gravel for £55.99 so we went for that deal. We bought some ornaments, I bought a little bridge and two plastic log ornaments, as i had researched that catfish like somewhere to hide, I chose purple gravel. My sister bought a treasure chest and a finding nemo ornaments to go with her rainbow gravel. We both got two live plants as well. We then went on to look at the fish, I saw the catfish wish just made me fall in love even more, we spoke to the fish shop manager and we advised me to get a pair as they will be happier and most likely won't breed and if they do the eggs will most likely get eaten anyway. They were in a tank with german blue rams so I went home and researched them. My sister fell in love with neon tetras so we researched them too.
We started the fish less cycles and a week later went to get the fish. I got my two catfish, both female, a little male blue ram and the fish shop manager talked me into getting a little orange male dwarf gourami, which I am glad that he did. Sadly they all died except one catfish, due to the perfume I think. We took the water down and it was tested, nothing was in it so we did 50% water changes all week and luckily he pulled through. My sister chose 4 neon tetras, one female black skirt tetra, one white mountain minnow and two female harlequin rasboras. All of hers were doing fine. I waited 2 weeks and then went to restock, decided to get five male guppies and two male platies all are doing great and Miss Whiskers my catfish is doing better than she ever has before so don't want to risk getting more and adding them in as they could fight or carry disease etc.
Anyway, my current gang are Leo, Lenny, Benny, Finley and Azurro (Azurro is my little dark blue guppy who had a broken back when i bought him, its now fixed but he looks a bit funny haha) Storm and Blaze (my platies) and Miss Whiskers (the peppered catfish)
I will keep you updated
So I had a gold fish when I was about 6, my sister also had one, they were never in bowls but the tank was no bigger than 15 litres. They both lived until they were about 4, looking back I know realize that it was cruel. When my little sister who was 8 was struggling to sleep at night a friend suggested to my mum about maybe getting some fish in her room with a relaxing light and it would give her something to watch. My mum thought that sounded good aswell, so she said I too could get some. I am not someone who can do something without doing some research be for hand, so I set about finding out as much as I could about fish. I spent the next 3 days researching tropical fish, tank sizes, fish breeds, fish less cycle etc. and decided a tank of at least 25 litres would be best.
I had a new found love for peppered cat fish and really wanted one. So we went to the local fish shop to buy some tanks. They had an offer on 40 litre tanks with a stand, light in the lid and gravel for £55.99 so we went for that deal. We bought some ornaments, I bought a little bridge and two plastic log ornaments, as i had researched that catfish like somewhere to hide, I chose purple gravel. My sister bought a treasure chest and a finding nemo ornaments to go with her rainbow gravel. We both got two live plants as well. We then went on to look at the fish, I saw the catfish wish just made me fall in love even more, we spoke to the fish shop manager and we advised me to get a pair as they will be happier and most likely won't breed and if they do the eggs will most likely get eaten anyway. They were in a tank with german blue rams so I went home and researched them. My sister fell in love with neon tetras so we researched them too.
We started the fish less cycles and a week later went to get the fish. I got my two catfish, both female, a little male blue ram and the fish shop manager talked me into getting a little orange male dwarf gourami, which I am glad that he did. Sadly they all died except one catfish, due to the perfume I think. We took the water down and it was tested, nothing was in it so we did 50% water changes all week and luckily he pulled through. My sister chose 4 neon tetras, one female black skirt tetra, one white mountain minnow and two female harlequin rasboras. All of hers were doing fine. I waited 2 weeks and then went to restock, decided to get five male guppies and two male platies all are doing great and Miss Whiskers my catfish is doing better than she ever has before so don't want to risk getting more and adding them in as they could fight or carry disease etc.
Anyway, my current gang are Leo, Lenny, Benny, Finley and Azurro (Azurro is my little dark blue guppy who had a broken back when i bought him, its now fixed but he looks a bit funny haha) Storm and Blaze (my platies) and Miss Whiskers (the peppered catfish)
I will keep you updated
