here are my tanks, please help

[vik_luvs_fish]

alright thanks for your replys and comments, i will not be getting all the fish today (truck comes in soon, cant wait) but i will most likely getting 6 tiger barbs, and 2 red tailed sharks for now, and some fish for my community, i will slow it down a bit.... i apreciate the comments, although i still need some more information..... all info from ranges of people would be great... thank you for all your help!

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From everything I have read you should NOT get two red tailed sharks. They are peacefull twords other fish for the most part (when they are young but for a lot of people that changes when they get older) but they are VERY agressive twords their own species and usually other sharks as well.

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I agree, I did this once when I had no clue and the slightly larger one bullied the smaller red tailed shark, it gets worse, the big one thought it owned my tank and when I put a new bala shark into the tank it harrassed it for 2 days flat and the poor new shark which was twice the size of the red tailed shark was chased if it so much as moved a fin, it couldn't even eat, I moved the red tailed shark after that before it had a chance to kill my bala shark.
In the new tank it then harrassed all the other fish, didn't help that the new tank was smaller.
SO I gave it away.

I now have a red tailed shark and a ruby shark in the tank, I had to move the ruby shark in and the red tailed shark harrasses it at every occassion, luckily the ruby shark has found a hiding place behind the corner filter and comes out to eat when the other shark is up the other end of the tank.

 

[aquatic-Bizkut]

heheheheheh.......sounds cute.... and very sad...


hahhhahahhah "coworkers trying to sell me things" funniest thing i hav ever heard, we work for a huge coorperation, so they dont care what i do, and dont buy, but i have learned alot more since my last post i have three tanks now, for a update check my other threads...

 

[@ombomb]

25 is too small for a RTBS, they are active fish and need plenty of space to be able to really define their territory. Once the fish get's older, it will see anything else in the tank as being an intruder and things could get nasty. Don't be fooled by it's nature as a juvenile, they only really get agressive once they mature. I wouldn't even think about having two in the same tank.

Can you give us a full list of what are in your tanks and their sizes?

Just read back through the thread and can promise you that the 2" per gallon with an air pump is absolute rubbish. 1" per gallon is the recommended maximum for the tank due to the biological load that the bacteria in the tank has to deal with an air pump has no effect on this at all. Importantly you need to remember that fish need space, escpecially when you have territorial fish in the tank. Personally I don't agree with the idea of keeping a "semi-agressive" tank. Most of the fish you have listed can be kept peacefully when in the correct conditions...

 

[OohFeeshy]

heheheheheh.......sounds cute.... and very sad...


hahhhahahhah "coworkers trying to sell me things" funniest thing i hav ever heard, we work for a huge coorperation, so they dont care what i do, and dont buy, but i have learned alot more since my last post i have three tanks now, for a update check my other threads...

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Hey, doesn't bother me if you're going to carry on being a total idiot and not listening to a word anybody says. You're going to be the one with all the dead fish and a dent in your wallet, not us. A 'huge coorperation'? I guess that means chain store. Well, you know, chain store workers especially are famed for knowing very little. No offense for those of you who have some working brain cells Just put a hold on your buying, tell us what the hell you're planning to put in, and we will tell you whether it will work.

 

[Blade118]

OMG ur tanks are the best