Hi all
I'm a newbie to this forum, currently I have a 24 Gal tank which has been moved over from a "goldfish" (Comets & Black Moors) to a tropical tank. I have 4 Golden sucking loaches, a couple of neon tetras, Mountain Cloud Minnows and several Danios. Alas over the summer I lost quite a number of fish (about 4 tetras, 2 mountain clouds and the last of my Black moors which was quite upsetting, since I'd had it for 3 years) due to the intense heat, the tank temperature went up to around 94!, and I was changing water nearly every day for a week to keep it down!
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Anyway I'm going to be changing tanks in the new year to a Trigon 190, has anyone had any experience of these?, they look great (and easy to maintain). Hopefully I can sell my 24gal with cabinet and pump (fluval 204) for a reasonable price which should recover some of the cost.
Also what sort of substrate to use?, currently I have quite large gravel, but I'm not so keen on this. I would like to build a planted tank so suggestions as to a good substrate would be handy.
Anyway hi to all and look forward to talking to you all.
Steve
I'm a newbie to this forum, currently I have a 24 Gal tank which has been moved over from a "goldfish" (Comets & Black Moors) to a tropical tank. I have 4 Golden sucking loaches, a couple of neon tetras, Mountain Cloud Minnows and several Danios. Alas over the summer I lost quite a number of fish (about 4 tetras, 2 mountain clouds and the last of my Black moors which was quite upsetting, since I'd had it for 3 years) due to the intense heat, the tank temperature went up to around 94!, and I was changing water nearly every day for a week to keep it down!
.Anyway I'm going to be changing tanks in the new year to a Trigon 190, has anyone had any experience of these?, they look great (and easy to maintain). Hopefully I can sell my 24gal with cabinet and pump (fluval 204) for a reasonable price which should recover some of the cost.
Also what sort of substrate to use?, currently I have quite large gravel, but I'm not so keen on this. I would like to build a planted tank so suggestions as to a good substrate would be handy.
Anyway hi to all and look forward to talking to you all.
Steve
