Hi everyone
I bought a 95l fishtank that came with a light, filter ,and heater,two weeks ago.I've got a few questions i need clearing up ,
when i bought it from a pet chain store i wasn't told about cycling the tank or anything else. all i was told is i should leave the tank set up for 1week before adding fish, so i did, got 4 guppies two yellow and two flame tail, the two yellow died that night,the other two are doing fine one week on. so i got on the net and found this place. great site btw
so the questions
i need a test kit are the 5in1 strips sold on ebay any good?link to test kit
it doesnt test for amonia so would this be good link for ammonia test kit
i would also like to get some corries i know i should get 5+ but would it be fair to get 3?
any tips on removing the sharp gravel and anything i should do with the 10mm to 40mm sand , i read here that bad stuff happens in sand above 10mm deep.it is fairly coarse sand if that makes a differance.
i just found two snails in the tank today one is tiny the other about the size of a pee, is there any reason i should get rid of them, and what should i do to feed them if its fine to keep them,
my heater is set to 23.5 to get the temp on thermometer to sit at 26 is this normal, i changed the thermometer incase the first was faulty.
thats all for now, thanks for reading
gary
I bought a 95l fishtank that came with a light, filter ,and heater,two weeks ago.I've got a few questions i need clearing up ,
when i bought it from a pet chain store i wasn't told about cycling the tank or anything else. all i was told is i should leave the tank set up for 1week before adding fish, so i did, got 4 guppies two yellow and two flame tail, the two yellow died that night,the other two are doing fine one week on. so i got on the net and found this place. great site btw
so the questions
i need a test kit are the 5in1 strips sold on ebay any good?link to test kit
it doesnt test for amonia so would this be good link for ammonia test kit
i would also like to get some corries i know i should get 5+ but would it be fair to get 3?
any tips on removing the sharp gravel and anything i should do with the 10mm to 40mm sand , i read here that bad stuff happens in sand above 10mm deep.it is fairly coarse sand if that makes a differance.
i just found two snails in the tank today one is tiny the other about the size of a pee, is there any reason i should get rid of them, and what should i do to feed them if its fine to keep them,
my heater is set to 23.5 to get the temp on thermometer to sit at 26 is this normal, i changed the thermometer incase the first was faulty.
thats all for now, thanks for reading
gary
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