First Fish In New Aquarium

[Buckfish]

I have a 60ltr aquarium and nearly able to purchase fish possibly in the next 7 to 10 days.

Any guidance helpful??

 

[Truck]

Read up on cycling, fishless and fish in, and see which method fits in with your lifestyle better.
Topics can be found in the new to hobby section, and it is pinned in the resource centre.

 

[Buckfish]

Read up on cycling, fishless and fish in, and see which method fits in with your lifestyle better.
Topics can be found in the new to hobby section, and it is pinned in the resource centre.

Thank you for highlighting this link.

I do believe Danios and Rasboras may be a good start?

 

[Buckfish]

The advice at the Resource Centre is very comprehensive. I have found the time lapse between setting up and the first purchase frustrating but I am fully aware that the cycling process is so important!!

 

[aly_starh]

I cycled my tank with Zebra Danios. I would not reccomend the Rasboras.

 

[AdAndrews]

I have just tried to cycle a tank using the fish-less method, and i would not advise this to anyone, test kits that are availible are a huge waste of time as they are not reliable and accurate, so doing fishless is extreemly hard, becuase you are in a sence cycling blind, whereas fish in cycle which i have used before and have had success is a much better method, not for the fish, i give it that. Although your eyes are your test kits, watch the fish, see how they behave, if any are dying etc, slowly increase the fish load over weeks/months, use a hardy fish like white cloud mountain minnows, zebra danios(as mentioned above) or guppies. feed sparingly and perfom water changes every 2 days, about 30% should do it.

 

[Knox213]

Read up on cycling, fishless and fish in, and see which method fits in with your lifestyle better.
Topics can be found in the new to hobby section, and it is pinned in the resource centre.

Truck Your 14-15 (My age) Yet you know alot more then me

please share with me your wisdom


And

Yea read up on cycling...

well up to you though..

i'd recommend

Mollys/Platys/Guppys

(Livebearers ask your LFS about them)

 

[festa]

Agree with advice given on cycling it is very rare this is explained properly especially by people trying to sell you fish!!!!

A good bacteria booster like nutrafin cycle should speed up cycling process. 60 litres is a small tank so be careful not to overstock. As recommended live bearers are a good fish if you cannot do fishless cycling. When I started no one explained the nitrogen cycle to me and I put fish in my new tank far too soon. Platties were by far the most rugged. With your tank I would put 2 x platties in at most and monitor water quality for at least a month or two before adding any more.

good luck

Festa

 

[OldMan47]

I wish there really was a good bacteria booster. We only know of two that actually have worked on occasion. They are the Bactinettes that is available in the UK and Bio-spira that was once available in the US. Bio-spira has been out of production so long now that any bottles you find are full of dead bacteria, not live ones.

Nitrafin Cycle, which I have experimented with, is not a bacteria booster. I don't know what is in it but as far as I know its only claim to fame is that it is made by a recognized name in fish care products. That is all, no actual results that are measurable. I have seen numerous fishless and fish-in cycles performed. The only way that I know of to cut one short is by using live bacteria, which always means finding a donor who has a healthy filter to clone.

 

[seanec]

ive never done a cycle ever and never lost any fish, that was in a fluval 4ft tank with fluval plus4 internal filter...


now i have got juwel trigon 190 with the ex700 external filer, 300w heater


Fish: 3x convict cichlid, 1x red tail albino shark, 2x kribensis, 2x Irian Jaya Rainbowfish, 1x Kissing Gourami
Pink Kisser, 2x Three-spot gourami, 2x angle fish, 3x zebra danio, 3x Dwarf Gourami, 1x silver dallor, 2x clown loachs, 4x male guppys, 1x male 1x pleco.

still nt done a cycle but when i came on here every1 was saying you need 2 do a cycle!!!!!! so thats what i am doin

 

[OldMan47]

You have in fact done cycles Sean. The difference is that you were not aware of what was going on in your tank and so did not monitor it. I must say that I did dozens of that kind when I was younger and just wrote off the occasional fish loss to poor quality stock or it being a new and not yet mature tank. Now I understand what was going on and what was killing my fish. The only real change now is that I know what to do when it does not go smoothly. I also now know how to get through the cycle without exposing fish to the dangers.