Sorry all im not mucking you about, today I visited my local tropical fish department and have went for the Jewel Rio 125 tank with cabinet, I had a good look at the fish and although I should not be put off, I'm going for a communal tank, which would be okay for me, the fish I liked were. Denison barb, gold barb, pentagonal barb, cherry barb, red tailed black shark, and perhaps one of you can recommend small catfish,or any other courfull barb I may have missed out, how many of these fish could I keep on the size of my tank, and what water temperature would you recommend ? In case any one was liking my name Country Joe, older members who remember Woodstock, one of the best bands that appeared was Country Joe And The Fish.
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Can you recommend which bottle of ammonia and how much I would need for a jewel reo led 125 tank 27.5 gallon I'm only going to have plastic plants, I met a fish keeper when in the shop and he said I should paint the outside back of the tank with black emulsion paint, is this a good idea.?The Rio 125 is 81 cm/32 inches long x 36 cm/14 inches front to back x 50 cm/19.7 inches tall - I used to have one. Though that 50 cm tall is right to the brim, because the lights sit below the brim the water surface has to be several cm below the brim.
Denisons barbs need a much longer tank I'm afraid.
As does the red tailed black shark
Epalzeorhynchos bicolor – Red-Tailed Black Shark (Labeo bicolor) — Seriously Fish
Cherry barbs are fine in this tank. Make sure you have more females than males - females may be less colourful but males spend their time chasing females and each other. I have a shoal of these and one of the males chases everything in the tank, and continually encourages females into the plants. One egg made it to hatch, and I now have another half grown male in the tank.
Puntius titteya – Cherry Barb (Barbus titteya, Capoeta titteya) — Seriously Fish
The tank is just about big enough for pentazona barbs (5 band barbs) and they are compatible with cherry barbs. If you get them, don't confuse them with tiger barbs (which are notorious fin nippers)
Both cherry and pentazona barbs need a temperature of 20 - 26 deg C so around 23 to 24 would be best. They are both shoaling fish so at least 6 of each, preferably more.
Gold barb - if you mean this fish
They do really need a bigger tank. And they need slightly cooler water than the other two barbs.
Most of the other commonly available barbs need bigger tanks I'm afraid.
Colourful catfish - there are some colourful varieties of bristle nose around these days, for example yellow. There's a lovely photo of one in this contest thread
beware though, many of the pretty catfish need big tanks.🐡 FOTM - VOTE NOW - August 2023 Fish of the Month Contest (Loricariidae / Suckermouth Catfish)
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Colin mentioned hardness. Scottish Water's website can be hard to navigate. First you have to find your supply zone, then download a pdf for that zone.
First enter your postcode here
and make a note of the "site name".
Then download the 2022 Water Hardness Data pdf from here
and look for the 'site name' you found on the other page. You need the numbers in the "hardness in mg/l caCO3" and "German degrees" columns. Post them here.
Just to warn you - most fish store workers haven't a clue, they make things up to get a sale. Never ask them for advice or believe anything they tell you until you have researched it yourself. For example, I bet they didn't tell you about cycling the tank before getting fish.
Cycle Your Tank! A Complete Guide For Beginners
Fishless cycling https://www.fishforums.net/threads/cycling-your-new-fresh-water-tank-read-this-first.421488/ Silent or plant cycling https://www.fishforums.net/threads/planted-silent-cycling.470400/ Fish-in cycling...
Ammonia is hard to find in 'real' shops, so look on eBay/Amazon. Read the listing carefully to see if it has any detergent, surfactant or perfume listed in the ingredients. if it has, look at another listing.
yeah I found out how hard it is to find ammonia- back when I was cycling my big tank I went to several stores trying to find it. The only ammonia I found was lemon scented. Seems like ammonia used to be as common as bleach and would be right there with it in the grocery stores- I wonder what happened? Isn't it a good cleaning agent?Ammonia is hard to find in 'real' shops, so look on eBay/Amazon. Read the listing carefully to see if it has any detergent, surfactant or perfume listed in the ingredients. if it has, look at another listing.
If the ammonia has a % concentration listed, there is ammonia calculator at the bottom of the forum's Aquarium Calculator
Just fill in the tank volume and the % of ammonia and it tells you how much to add. Syringes are useful for measuring small amounts - your local pharmacy or eBay/Amazon sells them - if you go to a pharmacy ask for a babies' medicine dosing syringe or you'll get the third degree about what it's for.
Tank volume - manufacturers quote the volume as the amount of space occupied by the tank not the amount of water it holds. You need to allow for the space between the water surface and the brim of the tank, and the amount of space taken up by the substrate (gravel, sand, whatever is on the bottom of the tank). The amount of water in the tank is always less than the quoted volume. I would treat the Rio 125 as 100 to 105 litres for adding things like ammonia or fish medication.
Silk plants look more realistic than plastic
WOODSTOCK ……. You surely sparked my memory bank.
Nothing but a bunch of young kids playing hippy music and smoking stuff that makes any music sound good, or at least far out man.
Oh, so much more.
