Fwapp
Fish Crazy
Good Morning All!
Well, My name is Will and I'm nearly as old as Tabbiespice! (a few posts below) I was given a tank by my sister-in-law about a year ago, but met with a bit of spousal resistance
A year later, after intense pressure from our children, I had permission to spend my birthday money on the the remaining bits I need to get the tank running.
The tank was a 24x12x12, which is a little small I guess, but will give me a good grounding to get things under way. My filter is a Fluval+3, and the heater is a Visitherm 150w. I know these are propably considered oversized for the tank, but I bought them with the future in mind!
Anyway after two weeks of running a empty tank with pre-matured filter material, maturation fluid and flake, My nasties were down and and the nitates up. I did a partial water change and yesterday, my family went out to HollyBush Nurseries, near Cannock, and after a nice morning wandering around looking at the christmas things we bought 4 (very small) rare, exotic Zebra Danios ! It was a pleasure to see the kids faces as we released the fish into our tank, and even the wife appears to be showing interest! This morning, I checked the tank, and all four are still alive, thankfully. They seems happy
in the tank and are feeding well ( a very small pinch twice day I think).
My aim in the future is a larger tank of Lake Malawi Cichlids, but for the next year or so, I need to learn about keeping a basic aquarium, with all that it entails, and also see if this fascinating hobby 'sticks'.
Any way, enough of me, I'll probably see you soon in the other forums.
Well, My name is Will and I'm nearly as old as Tabbiespice! (a few posts below) I was given a tank by my sister-in-law about a year ago, but met with a bit of spousal resistance
A year later, after intense pressure from our children, I had permission to spend my birthday money on the the remaining bits I need to get the tank running.The tank was a 24x12x12, which is a little small I guess, but will give me a good grounding to get things under way. My filter is a Fluval+3, and the heater is a Visitherm 150w. I know these are propably considered oversized for the tank, but I bought them with the future in mind!
Anyway after two weeks of running a empty tank with pre-matured filter material, maturation fluid and flake, My nasties were down and and the nitates up. I did a partial water change and yesterday, my family went out to HollyBush Nurseries, near Cannock, and after a nice morning wandering around looking at the christmas things we bought 4 (very small) rare, exotic Zebra Danios ! It was a pleasure to see the kids faces as we released the fish into our tank, and even the wife appears to be showing interest! This morning, I checked the tank, and all four are still alive, thankfully. They seems happy
in the tank and are feeding well ( a very small pinch twice day I think). My aim in the future is a larger tank of Lake Malawi Cichlids, but for the next year or so, I need to learn about keeping a basic aquarium, with all that it entails, and also see if this fascinating hobby 'sticks'.
Any way, enough of me, I'll probably see you soon in the other forums.
