My Introduction Thread

[Lake’sFishyThoughts]

Hi!
I’m relatively new to fishkeeping(been doing it for 2-3 years now?), so I only have one tank. I currently have 3 Buenos Aires tetras(yes, I know I need more but I only have a 10 gallon and I want to avoid overstocking) and a Nerite snail.

I also have had 2 German Blue Ram cichlids, but they have passed over the years(one about a year and a half ago due to a heater malfunction, and the other a month(?) ago due to illness(?))

 

[Lake’sFishyThoughts]

Hi!
I’m relatively new to fishkeeping(been doing it for 2-3 years now?), so I only have one tank. I currently have 3 Buenos Aires tetras(yes, I know I need more but I only have a 10 gallon and I want to avoid overstocking) and a Nerite snail.

I also have had 2 German Blue Ram cichlids, but they have passed over the years(one about a year and a half ago due to a heater malfunction, and the other a month(?) ago due to illness(?))

Okay, after reading a few threads on fish illness I believe my second GBR to pass could have had some sort of intestinal parasite, most likely in conjunction with another disease. You can learn a lot on here apparently, I really should have made an account sooner?

 

[OliveFish05]

Welcome! So sorry about the GBRs. Great to have you here!

 

[Uberhoust]

Hello. Nice to have someone from my home state. I have a couple of GBRs as part of a community tank. They are quite nice.

 

[Back in the fold]

Don't feel like you're having to prove yourself to anybody or have done certain things or any other such social nonsense. Your ten gallon with the tetras sounds great and you've kept Rams. That's awesome for a new person to the hobby. The fun of this hobby is learning. You will make mistakes, everybody does, and you will learn and have nicer tanks and greater fish with each passing year. Enjoy the process. One piece of advice from me is to buy yourself a good general aquarium / fish keeping book and devour it. The Internet is full of kooks ( like me) who will fill your head with their nutty ideas and have you scratching your head. Memorize a good general aquarium book and use that knowledge to gauge things you read on the Internet . The folks on this Great TFF Forum are the exception. They know their stuff.

 

[Lake’sFishyThoughts]

Hello. Nice to have someone from my home state. I have a couple of GBRs as part of a community tank. They are quite nice.

They really are, even if one of mine had a tendency to be a jerk.

 

[Utar]

Just wait until you are struck with MTS....lol (Multiple Tank Syndrome)....

Welcome to the forum...

 

[Lake’sFishyThoughts]

Just wait until you are struck with MTS....lol (Multiple Tank Syndrome)....

Welcome to the forum...

Haha, I think I would have multiple tanks if 1. The floor of my residence was not old, meaning that I shouldn’t have a large tank for fear of it crashing through the floor and 2. I am still a student
But one day, one day...

 

[Retired Viking]

Welcome to the forum, please post a picture of your tank and fish when you have a chance

 

[Lake’sFishyThoughts]

Welcome to the forum, please post a picture of your tank and fish when you have a chance

 

[Lake’sFishyThoughts]

One of them has the light on because I first took all the photos with the light on, but that caused a bunch of reflections and stuff like that so I re-took them. I wasn’t able to get a good picture of all 3 fish because they were all swimming around, but I tried?