crumpybumpy
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Hello. New to this forum and revisiting this great hobby after a 20 or so year hiatus...
My wife got a tank set up for my 9 year old son--I had fish waaay back when I was his age through college and it has rekindled my interest...anyway this is what she got I attached a pic):
A 7.9 gallon square-ish Fluval EBI Nano Shrimp Habitat. But she got it to use for tropical fish! This set-up includes a Fluval Nano Filter that uses a Bio-Foam. Back when I was doing this it was those bubbly charcoal filters so this is all new to me. So we set it up and the store gave us 7.5 gallons of water that was from their tanks.
There is no heater included. The temperature is at 78 deg F.
We got one of each:
White Molly
Beta
Fancy Guppie
Neon Tetra
Sword Tail
Trapdoor Snail
Sunkist Shrimp
and three live plants.
The Beta and the White Molly have been living there for a week and seem ok. We just got the others today.
My concerns:
The guppie, sword-tail, and the white molly spend a lot of time at the surface of the water their mouths almost as if gulping air. The beta does that intermitantly but I know for them that is normal. Is that a problem for the others?
The water is a little cloudy but not too bad...but we've only had the tank for a week. I don't have any testing equipment. What do I need? The only thing included in the kit was "Shrimp Safe" with is to remove Chlorine and chloramine from tap water. Should I use that when replacing the water which I've read should be 10-25% per week?
So what things do I need? Siphon for water change, what testing kit? Do I need a heater? The manual that came with the Fluval Nano filter mentions about a Carbon Cartridge A458 available separately...do I need that?
Too many live plants? See pic....
Thanks!
My wife got a tank set up for my 9 year old son--I had fish waaay back when I was his age through college and it has rekindled my interest...anyway this is what she got I attached a pic):
A 7.9 gallon square-ish Fluval EBI Nano Shrimp Habitat. But she got it to use for tropical fish! This set-up includes a Fluval Nano Filter that uses a Bio-Foam. Back when I was doing this it was those bubbly charcoal filters so this is all new to me. So we set it up and the store gave us 7.5 gallons of water that was from their tanks.
There is no heater included. The temperature is at 78 deg F.
We got one of each:
White Molly
Beta
Fancy Guppie
Neon Tetra
Sword Tail
Trapdoor Snail
Sunkist Shrimp
and three live plants.
The Beta and the White Molly have been living there for a week and seem ok. We just got the others today.
My concerns:
The guppie, sword-tail, and the white molly spend a lot of time at the surface of the water their mouths almost as if gulping air. The beta does that intermitantly but I know for them that is normal. Is that a problem for the others?
The water is a little cloudy but not too bad...but we've only had the tank for a week. I don't have any testing equipment. What do I need? The only thing included in the kit was "Shrimp Safe" with is to remove Chlorine and chloramine from tap water. Should I use that when replacing the water which I've read should be 10-25% per week?
So what things do I need? Siphon for water change, what testing kit? Do I need a heater? The manual that came with the Fluval Nano filter mentions about a Carbon Cartridge A458 available separately...do I need that?
Too many live plants? See pic....
Thanks!