Hello From Wales

[Rio]

Hello everyone

My name is Rhiannon and I am from South Wales, UK.

I got my first tropical tank a month a go. So far I have 6 mollies and 8 guppies. My favourites are the Dalmatian Mollies but my favourite fish I own is the one in my avatar.

Apart from fish, I have 9 house rabbits and 2 house guinea pigs. I work in a veterinary practice and love my job.

This seems like a great place to learn so I hope my fish benefit from my learning.

 

[CysticCrab]

Welcome Rhiannon This forum is awesome

 

[Raf485]

Welcome to the Forum

 

[Raf485]

What size tank have you got??

I would say your tank isnt fully cycled yet if you only had it a month. Unless you speeded up the process and used mature media from an established tank.

Keep a close eye on the water chemistry. Main things are Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrates.

If you havnt got one already, buy yourself a water testing kit.

Im from Swansea BTW.

This site has been a great help for me, and there are alot of friendly and knowledgable members on here to help with any issues or queries

Raf

 

[Rio]

What size tank have you got??

I would say your tank isnt fully cycled yet if you only had it a month. Unless you speeded up the process and used mature media from an established tank.

Keep a close eye on the water chemistry. Main things are Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrates.

If you havnt got one already, buy yourself a water testing kit.

Im from Swansea BTW.

Raf

Thank you for the welcomes

Hi Raf,
Thanks for the advice. I have a Fluval Roma 200 with a U4 filter. I didn't have any mature media but was told that it was ok to start with some mollies. I now know it was too early to get the guppies but I trusted the guy in the shop.
Got myself a water testing kit Might be a bit too much but I'm testing the water every day !
Nitrite and Nitrates have been 0 and the highest my ammonia has been is 0.25. Had some problems keeping it at 0.

 

[Raf485]

No harm in testing everyday, especially in a new tank IMO.

I did it when I started out. keep a close eye on the ammonia, and also when you start reading nitrites. Keep the water changes going until they both go '0', and you start reading Nitrates.

 

[dbanner]

Hi rhi, welcome to the forum. Full of people willing to help on here. I'm relatively new to fish keeping and iv had a lot of help from here I'm also from south Wales by the way.... Pontypridd area

 

[snake007]

Welcome!

 

[simonas]

Hi and welcome to the forum

have a good mooch around and perhaps show us your tank and fish

Simon

 

[Rio]

Thank you all for your welcomes

Great to see other people from Wales too

 

[The Taffy Apple]

Lovely butt

I am in the sunny Port Talbot area, but travel to Swansea/Skewen/Clydach for my fish.. any of you able to pass on any little 'hidden gems' in the South West Wales area?

Diolch An Fawr.

Terry.