I'm looking to upgrade my lickle 60L tank to something a bit bigger, so I went to my LFS near Leeds to have a look, they have a tank measuring 48x12x18, for about 80 quid with hood and light, is this good value and am I right in thinking that this is about 50Gal / 200L?
This raises quite a few questions for me (I'm awfully paranoid about doing anything new with my fishes ), assuming I bought it, I'd obviously need a bigger filter, at the minute I have a Fluval 2+, would I be better off with an external filter, a larger internal filter, another smaller filter etc, and if I put my existing filter media into it presumably I would have a mini-cycle until my filter bacteria catch up with the fish' waste production?
With regards to stocking I would really really really really like some Dojo Loaches, they had some in with the goldfish in the coldwater section, presumably I can't just plop them into a tropical tank and would require acclimatising, how would I go about this?
I'd like to stock my tank with toughish fish, maybe 10 tiger barbs, a RTBS, some cories etc and would like some recommendations for other fish that would be suitable tankmates!
Thanks!
This raises quite a few questions for me (I'm awfully paranoid about doing anything new with my fishes ), assuming I bought it, I'd obviously need a bigger filter, at the minute I have a Fluval 2+, would I be better off with an external filter, a larger internal filter, another smaller filter etc, and if I put my existing filter media into it presumably I would have a mini-cycle until my filter bacteria catch up with the fish' waste production?
With regards to stocking I would really really really really like some Dojo Loaches, they had some in with the goldfish in the coldwater section, presumably I can't just plop them into a tropical tank and would require acclimatising, how would I go about this?
I'd like to stock my tank with toughish fish, maybe 10 tiger barbs, a RTBS, some cories etc and would like some recommendations for other fish that would be suitable tankmates!
Thanks!