Hi,
I started on this forum a couple days ago and have not introduced myself yet. Let me do that an record some of my experiances.
I started this hobby seriously about 18 months ago with a 29gl my husband had in storage. I did the fish in cycling (didn't know there was any other way) with 5 albino von rio tetras. I slowly added fish from there and was fully stocked with those, neons, a dwarf gourami (my fave) an angle fish, Chinese algea eater, rion negro pleco and 2 corys, and a dojo loach. Everything was great and nothing was dieing. Then I had to move the tank to a new apartment that fell through and then move it back to my old place and then to the next new place a week later. This all happened within 2 weeks. I lost the angel, 2 of the albino von rios, 2 neons, and one of the corys. I was surprised I didn't lose anything else. Now everything is going good again so (thanks to advice I got on here) I am restocking the school fish. Right now I have:
6 albino von rios
6 neons
1 dwarf gourami
1 Chinese algea eater
1 rio negro pleco
1 peppered cory
1 dojo loach
4 whisker shrimp
I have the tank heavily planted and I feed them flakes and sinking shrimp pellets everyday, and frozen brine shrimp once a week. About once a month I get live black worms from the fish store and they go nuts!
I dose the plants with carbon and iron Flourish suppliments every week. I don't understand the need for CO2 injections because my plants grow like crazy without it!
Next week I am going to get 5 more corys. I can definitely tell the benefit of having schooling fish in schools. Before when there was only 3 albino rios they always stayed hidden in the plants. Now they are out in the open swimming freely.
So that's my big tank! I love it and can't wait to bet my house so I can have the dream (a 110gl jungle type planted aquarium and a 55gl cichlid tank!!)
I also have 10gl shrimp tank that I just put shrimp in 6 weeks ago so that is still a work in progress. I have gotten a lot of help on that one in here and have a learned a lot in just a couple days. I have put some of it into good use. Thanks to all
Thanks for reading and here is a pic of my tank
I started on this forum a couple days ago and have not introduced myself yet. Let me do that an record some of my experiances.
I started this hobby seriously about 18 months ago with a 29gl my husband had in storage. I did the fish in cycling (didn't know there was any other way) with 5 albino von rio tetras. I slowly added fish from there and was fully stocked with those, neons, a dwarf gourami (my fave) an angle fish, Chinese algea eater, rion negro pleco and 2 corys, and a dojo loach. Everything was great and nothing was dieing. Then I had to move the tank to a new apartment that fell through and then move it back to my old place and then to the next new place a week later. This all happened within 2 weeks. I lost the angel, 2 of the albino von rios, 2 neons, and one of the corys. I was surprised I didn't lose anything else. Now everything is going good again so (thanks to advice I got on here) I am restocking the school fish. Right now I have:
6 albino von rios
6 neons
1 dwarf gourami
1 Chinese algea eater
1 rio negro pleco
1 peppered cory
1 dojo loach
4 whisker shrimp
I have the tank heavily planted and I feed them flakes and sinking shrimp pellets everyday, and frozen brine shrimp once a week. About once a month I get live black worms from the fish store and they go nuts!
I dose the plants with carbon and iron Flourish suppliments every week. I don't understand the need for CO2 injections because my plants grow like crazy without it!
Next week I am going to get 5 more corys. I can definitely tell the benefit of having schooling fish in schools. Before when there was only 3 albino rios they always stayed hidden in the plants. Now they are out in the open swimming freely.
So that's my big tank! I love it and can't wait to bet my house so I can have the dream (a 110gl jungle type planted aquarium and a 55gl cichlid tank!!)
I also have 10gl shrimp tank that I just put shrimp in 6 weeks ago so that is still a work in progress. I have gotten a lot of help on that one in here and have a learned a lot in just a couple days. I have put some of it into good use. Thanks to all
Thanks for reading and here is a pic of my tank
