Hey folks,
Want to say im glad i found this forum and wish i would have found it a day earlier. My girlfriends father decided this past Friday he was done with his tank. He had African Chiclids and due to personal reasons decided he had enough. Everything was done pretty much start to finish with the only advance notice of " Hey you want the tank?" He sold the fish to the pet store and the tank was loaded in my truck. We brought it back home and set it all up. We rinsed everything off (which we now read was bad) in hopes to remove all the snails.(which didnt happen).
We were told to grab a bunch of Zebra Danio's and add them to the tank for a month and a half then add others. Now we read about fishless cycling and are wondering if we should keep the fish or do the fishless. Theres currently 9 danios in the tank.
The tank is 120 gallon - 48 1/2 x 24 1/4 x 25 1/2. There are two 110 Aqua clear filters, and the air equipment. We still need to get a heater but the water is at 72 degrees ruffly. And a better hood.
We treated the water with Aqua Safe and Crystal Clear. We got something to kill the snails too but we have not added it yet because in the instructions it says not to if the ppm is below a specific level. As you can tell neither of us have any clue what were doing. We need to go get some testing equipment and do some more reading. Well wish me luck, I'll be visiting often learning what I can. Anything you could share would be appreciated.
Oh ya our long term goal is to have a large amount of bright and colorful fish and other things that wont destroy one another.
Want to say im glad i found this forum and wish i would have found it a day earlier. My girlfriends father decided this past Friday he was done with his tank. He had African Chiclids and due to personal reasons decided he had enough. Everything was done pretty much start to finish with the only advance notice of " Hey you want the tank?" He sold the fish to the pet store and the tank was loaded in my truck. We brought it back home and set it all up. We rinsed everything off (which we now read was bad) in hopes to remove all the snails.(which didnt happen).
We were told to grab a bunch of Zebra Danio's and add them to the tank for a month and a half then add others. Now we read about fishless cycling and are wondering if we should keep the fish or do the fishless. Theres currently 9 danios in the tank.
The tank is 120 gallon - 48 1/2 x 24 1/4 x 25 1/2. There are two 110 Aqua clear filters, and the air equipment. We still need to get a heater but the water is at 72 degrees ruffly. And a better hood.
We treated the water with Aqua Safe and Crystal Clear. We got something to kill the snails too but we have not added it yet because in the instructions it says not to if the ppm is below a specific level. As you can tell neither of us have any clue what were doing. We need to go get some testing equipment and do some more reading. Well wish me luck, I'll be visiting often learning what I can. Anything you could share would be appreciated.
Oh ya our long term goal is to have a large amount of bright and colorful fish and other things that wont destroy one another.
