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It's been a while since I've posted here. I kind of ran short on money so I put all my hobby's on the back burner. Now I have a little cash so I’d like to do something with my tank or start a new one. I have a twenty gallon high community tank at the moment. • 2 yellow glow danios • 2 male...

This is the best I could do. It's not quite as deep as i thought it was but still about 1/4 the thickness of the glass.

I found an old 20g tank in my parents attic. It hold water at the moment but I'm going to replace the silicone anyway. The only defects in it are a few chips out of the back corners about half way up. One is about half as deep as the thickness of the glass. It's not like people are going to see...

I'm no expert but I would Imagen you would have a few losses if you put fish in an unicycled tank. without an established bio filter you're ammonia is going to jump a few days after you put fish in there, especially in such a small tank. This might not only kill some fish but also stunt the...

After looking it up that is a $*%^ load of fish in one tank. :blink:

Because I'm one of those odd ball people who must be doing something all the time or I lose my mind. I get this horrible feeling that i should be doing something like writing a paper or studying or going to class. Then I realize that I have no responsibility's or anything interesting to do for 3...

As I sat reformatting my computer yesterday, I watched my tetra trying not to think about all the hours of work I was losing. I've figured out that tetra only have 3 settings in there little minds. Possibly 4. 1.) FOOD!!!! 2.) I'm afraid so I'll school with other things that look like me and...

Well I am a newbie so thats what I know. I'll cut it out then, just trying to help. I only like small fish and invertebrates so that rule works seems to work well in my case. :good: I always thought that a small number of fish works well if dune right, especially in a planted tank.

1 gallon per one inch of fish. At least thats what I'm told.

Ok thank you. :good:

Thanks but was he with other fish. Thats my big concern.

I was talking to a guy in the pet store the other day and he suggested that I put a male fancy guppy in my tank. He didn't work there and I think he was going completely off of how the fish looked but I thought I'd ask anyway. I couldn't find any information on guppies temperament or if it would...

Update My brother ddecided he wanted to take the fish at least until it warms up outside. He's never had fish before and he's going to be disappointed when I tell him he needs to buy a bunch of chemicals to keep them alive, not to mention gravel for my old tank and possibly a new light for it...

I'm getting 5-6 neon tetras and 5-6 glow-Danios. :good:

I don't know most of the fish i like are schooling fish, so just one wouldn't work. I guess I'd get an oscer or some type of big fish, that would be interesting on it's own. I probably would just grab a blue gill from my pond and see how big It would get.

It's only a 10 gallon tank but I'm thinking about moving the operation over to a 20g tank I have laying around. It seems kind of an over kill for 5 tetras, 5 danios, 2 snails and a hand full of shrimp but I've always been told bigger is better when it comes to tanks. I'll Probably stick with the...

Thanks for the reply I'll address you're questions one at a time. 1.) I didn’t actually buy the fish my roommate just gave me some of his feeder fish. I could have dune a fishless cycle but I attempted that with my last tank and it didn’t work out well. Admittedly I think might have dune it...

Thanks for the info. As soon as I get back I'll tell him about it. We attempted to feed them many of the things you mentioned but they didn't seem interested. I guess the key is to fast them them.

lol yes I though about it and you're right. I just can't believe that they would be able to live off of any less than I'm giving them. The pond I'm talking about is a full sized pond. I have large mouth bass, blue gill and a 3 foot long carp in there so I'm sure it's deep enough. They may get...

Yup I just can't figure out what to do with the little ugly things. :blink:

As some of you know I recently used some comet/common goldfish to cycle a tank. It started out fine but now there becoming a real nuisance. I feed them when i wake up and just after dark like you're suppose to but they will not go up to the suffice and eat it they wait till it falls to the...

I personally like snails because they act like a tank vacuum and eat any left over food. Black mystery snails are my favorite but they do have the habit of over population. I believe there are a few ways to kill them off without hurting you're fish but I've never looked into it. there are types...

Chinese soft shell- http://www.reptilekeeper.co.uk/chinesesoftshellturt.php I've never had a turtle, I'm just good at finding information. Just make sure to research any turtle or any pet for that matter before getting it. The soft shell needs live food like fish and pinks (baby mice) and it...

Yes I know that but i looked around and it seems as tough as long as i don't go above 77F they will be ok, and like mark said they are just feeder fish. Although I do like the little black one, wish I could keep him around. I've been keeping the temp at about 70 and they seem happy enough. They...

I'm setting up a new 10g tank right now and I would relay like to put some blue pearl shrimp in it. http://www.fishforums.net/content/Tropical...-And-Test-Fish/ The PH is fine and the tank will be properly cycled in a few days. I have 6 “Suicide” feeder gold fish in it too cycle the tank...

Thanks. Actually the gravel is a nice shade of red but I'm using a very bad web cam to take these. :crazy: I have a nice heater in there and probably will be getting a better thermometer as soon as I get the chance. I've just got one of those strip ones on the side of the tank at the moment...

Just posting some picks of my new tanks. I'm ordering some pearl blue shrimp this week and I'll get the glow danio's and neon tetra as soon as I feed these guys too my roommates piranha in a few weeks. Just hope these comet gold fish don't mess with the new shrimp. The shrimp are only a 1/4"...

Ok thanks, that relay helps. I didn't know about the calcium and we just put new plants in the tank. I knew the piranhas would bet about 12" or so but I relay can't see the pike living for more than a few more weeks. He's not growing very fast at least not as fast as the piranhas and he keeps...

100 gallon!!!!! :o We only have two of them at the moment! Unless his research is a little off I can't Imagen needing anything over 50 gallon for a year or two. The guy at the shop said we only needed a 20g :blink: but he's an idiot. We have a very nice (and expensive) filtration system on it...

It's VERY little ammonia but I guess even that could be hurting them. It's relay hard to keep a Parana tank clean. :angry:

My roommate Joe wanted me to ask you guys about his snails. He has a red belly Parana tank with 3 red bellies, a Plecostomus Catfish, and a pike(They get along fine....so far.). The problem is he’s put probably 8 snails in there and each time they die. There antenna kind of shrivel up after a...

If it will help I'll look into it, thanks. :good:

Thanks ^_^ I actually have something like that. It pretty much saved my roommates Parana. He didn’t know what cycling was when he got the fish and I wasn’t there when the pet shop owner told him to just get the fish the same day he got the tank.

I would like to start cycling my tank asap the only problem is I’m leaving to go back home in a few weeks and I have to transport the tank in my car for an hour and a half back and forth. The up side is I’ll have 5 weeks to cycle the tank. :hyper: I looked into fishless cycling and from what...

Sounds good I'll look into it.

My room mate has one of those in with his red belly Parana tank. The only reason it's still alive is because it's mean as hell but I'm betting it's not going to last anther week or two. The red belly's are getting big and more aggressive. :shifty:

Thanks but I don't trust the water here. I live in a big city and the water already smells like fish. If I'm not willing to drink it I'm not putting it in the tank with 50 bucks worth of fish.

Yes I need to do a fishless cycle to have the shrimp and my roommate had a big problem with his red belly tank because He didn't do it. The tap water here is complete crap I wouldn't even consider using it. I'm going to look into getting a big jug of filtered watter. Thanks I'll look into the...

I'm setting up a tank when I get back to college from winter brake. I've been doing a lot of research on the fish I'm getting, mostly out of boredom. The tanks 10g (38L) going to have. 5-Glow danios 5-neon tetra 2or3-Cherry shrimp and "maybe" some other kind of bottom feeder. The reason I'm...