hey guy'sfirst of great informative forum you've got here, really helped me out already.
my name is jake, im from rochdale in the uk, we got our own house last year so decided to get fish, my perents had fish for years and i always liked them.
we bought just a small setup, in a kit. i believe the tank is 600x300x350 iirc. we have an internal fluval filter, which seems to do an ok job.
in the past, we have planted real plants but always ended up killing them some how, and getting dirty water. so we switched to faulse plants, they looked ok but not amazing.
last night after some reading on here i decided to remodel the tank, add some real plants, and a home made co2 coke bottle setup, which looks like its working
the fish we have, never really die, just multiply lol we bought 3 white molly's which bread, one died through giving birth, but we then had six baby mollys and two adults, now unforunately one adult died, leaving us with seven. which have now given birth again, and i now have 15 babies lol which i have kept in a seperator in the tank, there now big enough that i released them into the tank, to get a bit bigger then there going to the lfs, along with the rest of the molly's. we also have a smaller orange molly, about 3 harlequin's, 5 neon tetra's a torpedo fish, and a orangy ping thing, think its a gor$%£us
ha ha oh and a lovely blue beta siamese.here are pics from last night, the tank cleared up really quickly, with no casualties and non this morning either, which is a good sign.
now i have a few questions before my pics:
am i ok to keep my air stone running all night, the pump is quit noisy, but im afraid if i turn it off it will start to sypon the tank, like it did a little last night(but the pump wasn't attached).
once the molly's have gone what other fish could i introduces???
im i ok using co2 in a small tank, i made a diffuser out of a bottle lid, basically the pipe goes through the lid, and the lid keeps the bubbles from reaching the surface, this is placed directly next to my filter, to help move the co2 around the tank.
any other pointers would help
almost forgot we have a lovely bristle nosed plec, that is doing very well, if not very camera shy.
jake
pics
also on a side note, i have the air stone under the drift wood, will the fish swin under here or not go through the bubbles, would it be suggested to move the airstone somewhere else in the tank, to allow the fis to use this as a shelterd area ???
cheers jake
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