A Top Tip!

[CluelessScot]

Know your fish and their needs. Overfilter. Understock. Keep schooling fish in schools. Never buy on impulse.

Indeed x1,000


Also, quality food. No freeze dried and rarely flakes.

What would you suggest as quaility food?

 

[lljdma06]

Never, ever, impulse shop, especially when buying fish. If you see a fish you like, put it on reserve, most LFS will do this, and then come back the next week. If it's still kicking, it should still be kicking when you get it home. Or know exactly what species you want before you buy.

Always have a quaranteen(sp)/hospital tank and several medicines ready to go!! It doesn't have to be big, it doesn't have to be pretty, but you'll never regret having one. Don't be tempted to fill it, the best thing is if you never have to use it, and it's just a pretty vessel of water. The best quaranteen/hospital tank is an empty one.

Learn the scientific names for your fish.

In my opinion, my top tip is patience. Never rush into anything in this hobby. Never rush into cycling, never rush setting up, never rush to stock, never rush to breed. Take your time and be patient and you won't regret it.

 

[a.i.m]

GET YOUR SELF A GOOD QUALITY WATER TEST KIT

I know this is obvious but some times the obvious is over looked or not underlinned enough to show its importance.

So many people have problems in their tanks and rely on looking things up and taking advice, so if from the begining you have statstics top begin with, the advice and the things you look up can be so more direct at your problem that the answer can be quicker found.

Im not always able to watch my tanks on an every day basis, so even though they might look clean and healthy its a good quality water test kit which gives good news or bad news on how the fish are actually keeping.

WHATS YOUR TOP TIP

 

[cyprinut]

Buy a Python water-change hose. You'll do more water changes when it's easier, especially if you suffer from MTS. Your fish will love you for it.

 

[rdd1952]

Having just lost a tetra today (jumped from tank) I will add to make sure ALL openings in the lid are covered, no matter how small they are. This is the second time I have lost a jumper (other was a betta) and the holes they jumped through weren't very big but they found a way.

 

[Fella]

Buy an API test kit.

Research your fish before you buy them. There is no excuse for surprises in your tank when there is so much information available on the internet and from books.

Trust experienced fishkeepers over fish sellers. An LFS's primary purpose is to make money, a fishkeepers is to keep his fish happy.