Hello all, well the cycling journey has come to an end and I am now officially a Fish Keeper 
. I have all the tanks stocked, just waiting a couple of weeks before I add the Skunk Cories, and the Olive Nerite Snails I still have to locate. The 55 gallon is doing great so far. All the fish are in, the Cherry Barbs did great with the transfer from the 12 to the 55 gallon, in fact, I never saw them school quite as tightly in the 12 gallon as they are in the 55 gallon, well except for 2 of the Red Zebra Glo fish seem to have infiltrated the Cherries' school. The Zebra Danio seem to be having a grand old time chasing each other around the tank. The 2 Pearl Gourmais seem to have settled down, they were a little skittish at first, especially when the Zebras went zooming by, but now they don't seem bothered by them. However, they are sticking very close together 
. The 12 gallon is doing OK, I left the mystery snail in there and added the Harlequin Rasboras and they seem to be doing good (a much better choice for my 12 gallon not nearly as active as those crazy barbs ). All except 1 Harlequin took the transfer well, I have one with clamped fins (already posted in emergency). I didn't notice it in the store, or even when I first got home, I didn't notice it until about 10 minutes after I released them into the tank (after acclimating of course), I am really hoping it is just transport stress, I put some stresszyme in and turned the lights out, hopefully that will do the trick 
. Other than that one, the Harlequins seem to have settled in nicely. My Betta on the other hand is still sulking! I have posted in the Betta section and this is apparently normal Betta behaviour, it is amazing how each species has such different personalities. Anyway, I was told to expect the sulking to last about 2 weeks. He has come out of his cave occasionally, mostly at night, but quickly goes back in if I get to close to the tank, I have to sneak up on him just to look at him 
. But from what I can tell he appears to be doing fine.
So here is the final stock list that I went with, some changes since the beginning but nonetheless this is what I went with:
5 Gallon (101 days of cycling)
1 Betta (VT I believe)
1 Olive Nerite Snail (still need to locate)
12 Gallon (69 Days of cycling)
10 Harlequin Rasboras
1 Golden Mystery Snail (will be moving to a friends tank)
2 Olive Nerite Snails (when located)
55 Gallon (40 days of cycling)
2 Pearl Gourmai
16 Zebra Danio (4 regular, 12 GloFish and the regulars are schooling with the Glos)
12 Cherry Barbs
5 Skunk Cory Cats (will add in about 2 weeks)
5 Olive Nerite Snails (when located)
So those are the tails of my tanks. I also wanted to say a few thank yous to those that really helped me out along the way, drobbyb, for the 55 gallon tank and great advice, Waterdrop, OM47, FHM, and to anyone else I may have forgetten for all their great advice and patience with me. Thank you so much I don't know what I would have done with out you and this forum, everyone here is great.
. I have all the tanks stocked, just waiting a couple of weeks before I add the Skunk Cories, and the Olive Nerite Snails I still have to locate. The 55 gallon is doing great so far. All the fish are in, the Cherry Barbs did great with the transfer from the 12 to the 55 gallon, in fact, I never saw them school quite as tightly in the 12 gallon as they are in the 55 gallon, well except for 2 of the Red Zebra Glo fish seem to have infiltrated the Cherries' school. The Zebra Danio seem to be having a grand old time chasing each other around the tank. The 2 Pearl Gourmais seem to have settled down, they were a little skittish at first, especially when the Zebras went zooming by, but now they don't seem bothered by them. However, they are sticking very close together . The 12 gallon is doing OK, I left the mystery snail in there and added the Harlequin Rasboras and they seem to be doing good (a much better choice for my 12 gallon not nearly as active as those crazy barbs ). All except 1 Harlequin took the transfer well, I have one with clamped fins (already posted in emergency). I didn't notice it in the store, or even when I first got home, I didn't notice it until about 10 minutes after I released them into the tank (after acclimating of course), I am really hoping it is just transport stress, I put some stresszyme in and turned the lights out, hopefully that will do the trick . Other than that one, the Harlequins seem to have settled in nicely. My Betta on the other hand is still sulking! I have posted in the Betta section and this is apparently normal Betta behaviour, it is amazing how each species has such different personalities. Anyway, I was told to expect the sulking to last about 2 weeks. He has come out of his cave occasionally, mostly at night, but quickly goes back in if I get to close to the tank, I have to sneak up on him just to look at him . But from what I can tell he appears to be doing fine.So here is the final stock list that I went with, some changes since the beginning but nonetheless this is what I went with:
5 Gallon (101 days of cycling)
1 Betta (VT I believe)
1 Olive Nerite Snail (still need to locate)
12 Gallon (69 Days of cycling)
10 Harlequin Rasboras
1 Golden Mystery Snail (will be moving to a friends tank)
2 Olive Nerite Snails (when located)
55 Gallon (40 days of cycling)
2 Pearl Gourmai
16 Zebra Danio (4 regular, 12 GloFish and the regulars are schooling with the Glos)
12 Cherry Barbs
5 Skunk Cory Cats (will add in about 2 weeks)
5 Olive Nerite Snails (when located)
So those are the tails of my tanks. I also wanted to say a few thank yous to those that really helped me out along the way, drobbyb, for the 55 gallon tank and great advice, Waterdrop, OM47, FHM, and to anyone else I may have forgetten for all their great advice and patience with me. Thank you so much I don't know what I would have done with out you and this forum, everyone here is great.
