Just Starting Out

[guyt]

hello i have had my tank running for two weeks and about to buy some fish to start a community tank and would like to know what fish pepole would recomend so that i have a spread of fish in the top middle and bottom of my tank i have the aqua one 620t i have read that one inch of fish to one galon of water is recomended and would like to have a range of differant fish in the tank an advice is welcom

 

[micko]

Hello and welcome, I'm really not sure how that one inch of fish to one gallon works so I cannot really say, how many liters/gallons does your tank hold?

 

[guyt]

Hello and welcome, I'm really not sure how that one inch of fish to one gallon works so I cannot really say, how many liters/gallons does your tank hold?

hi it holds 13o litters but with all the plants and rocks ect i would say more like 90 litters of water

 

[XFiSh_CichildX]

you good have a good few live bearers if u wanted to breed or even just one sex of them in the tank guppies mollies endlers platys ect some corys what is your substrate ?? sand or gravel ??

 

[moochy13]

unless youve used some media from an old filter, i can promise you any fish you put in now will die. which is bad times.

you need to read up on cycling a fish tank, getting your filter ready to deal with fish waste, which keeps your water good, which stops your fish dieing.

 

[DarrenEPB]

I would advise for you to leave the tank a little longer before you introduce any fish and when you do introduce them do not put to many in at once, slow and steady. If you want a good community tank go for fish like neon tetras, a pleco, some swordtails, guppys, mollys those 3 breeds are live bearers. Just dont put to many in at once due to causing them stress and also you need to ensure that the tank is cycled and ready. I always go for live plants, not everyone does, but as I have alot of live bearers I prefer live plants as the fry have a good chance of survival.

Darren

Currently have 34 baby swordtails and 19 baby guppys

My main area of knowledge

 

[guyt]

thank you all for your advise i will leave it a bit longer before i go and start getting my fish

 

[giggsey]

I would hold off before getting any neon tetras. They prefer an established tank.

 

[moochy13]

thank you all for your advise i will leave it a bit longer before i go and start getting my fish

its not just a case of leaving the tank longer, you need to actively build up your bacteria in the filter. did you read about the cycling ? to start producing bacteria, you need ammonia. to get ammonia you need it in a bottle (fishless cycling), or you need it to be coming out of a fish' #14### (fish in cycling). simply letting your tank sit there will not produce ammonia, or bacteria. it will be no different in 6 weeks to how it is now.

 

[guyt]

thank you all for your advise i will leave it a bit longer before i go and start getting my fish

its not just a case of leaving the tank longer, you need to actively build up your bacteria in the filter. did you read about the cycling ? to start producing bacteria, you need ammonia. to get ammonia you need it in a bottle (fishless cycling), or you need it to be coming out of a fish' #14### (fish in cycling). simply letting your tank sit there will not produce ammonia, or bacteria. it will be no different in 6 weeks to how it is now.

thanks just read the artical and will use the add and waight methard and will keep you all posted thanks again

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

welcome

 

[Skins]

Hello and welcome to the forum

Keith.

 

[ARMS87]

welcome