Well I thought I would post up a really crappy photo of my 'daughters' tank. It has been up and running now for about 3 months and we have had some fun and games in that time.....such a learning curve.
After a visit to a well known LFS that lets you look at pets (work it out), I found my self carrying out a fish in cycle with 4 glow light tetras and a collection of random plants. Miraculously the tetras all survived (and are thriving), and after a week (a week!!) 4 neon tetras joined them. They also thrived (more luck than judgement), and I added a couple of nerite snails and shrimp to act as a clean up crew.
A month later Henry the fighting fish joined the clan.
Since then I've had one kamikaze tetra (RIP), not sure if he was going for the high jump record or the cat took an interest.
As the plants were a random lot, they soon started to suffer, so out they came and a new lot went in....promptly killing my shrimp. And so I found this place.
Current Stock:
4 Glowlight Tetra
4 Neon Tetra
2 Nerite Snails
2 Rabbit Snails
2 Amano Shrimp
5 Cherry Shrimp
Plants:
Green ones
Here is the tank, it is a work in progress so be kind. I have learnt so much from the posts on here, so thanks to you all.
Oh the yellow thing was my one concession to my 3 year old lad.............he may be getting his own tank soon (ahem) so it will be going in there.
After a visit to a well known LFS that lets you look at pets (work it out), I found my self carrying out a fish in cycle with 4 glow light tetras and a collection of random plants. Miraculously the tetras all survived (and are thriving), and after a week (a week!!) 4 neon tetras joined them. They also thrived (more luck than judgement), and I added a couple of nerite snails and shrimp to act as a clean up crew.
A month later Henry the fighting fish joined the clan.
Since then I've had one kamikaze tetra (RIP), not sure if he was going for the high jump record or the cat took an interest.
As the plants were a random lot, they soon started to suffer, so out they came and a new lot went in....promptly killing my shrimp. And so I found this place.
Current Stock:
4 Glowlight Tetra
4 Neon Tetra
2 Nerite Snails
2 Rabbit Snails
2 Amano Shrimp
5 Cherry Shrimp
Plants:
Green ones
Here is the tank, it is a work in progress so be kind. I have learnt so much from the posts on here, so thanks to you all.
Oh the yellow thing was my one concession to my 3 year old lad.............he may be getting his own tank soon (ahem) so it will be going in there.