Amateur fish keeper

[MrsSchultz]

Hey everyone.
I'm from South Australia and live on a farm in the middle of nowhere and have to travel an hour to get to my lfs. I currently have a 10g with Neon tetras, white clouds, kuhli loaches, an algae eater and a yoyo loach. I also have a 55g which is my African Cichlid tank but it also has a few other specimens that live with them. I am currently cycling an 80g and have no idea what to put in it.
I have 3 kids who also adore fish. My eldest has a 16g homing a Betta, Neon tetras and a Cory. I know people say Cory's are meant to be in groups but he seems happy, active and he gets all the scraps to himself lol.
I can't wait to learn & share with you all.
Thanks for Reading
Mrs Schultz

 

[Fishmanic]

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[MrsSchultz]

Thank you

 

[AilyNC]

Welcome. Maybe move the neon tetras into the bigger tank when it's cycled. You can really increase the numbers and have a lovely big school. They look great in bigger numbers and like a tank minimum 60cm in length for swimming space. Looking forward to seeing pics of the tanks when you can share them

 

[vanalisa]

Welcome!

 

[MrsSchultz]

Welcome!

Thank you

 

[MrsSchultz]

My cichlid tank

 

[Colin_T]

A belated hello and welcome to the forum

Have you thought about breeding fish on your property?
Set up some ponds and put a single species of fish in each pond. Leave them there for a few months and then move them out. You could supply your local fish shop and have more fish for your tanks. You could also grow aquarium plants in ponds.

White cloud mountain minnows will survive outdoors all year round in Australia and will eat any mozzie larvae that appear in the pond. They breed readily and you could have large numbers of them in a few months time.

Your cichlids will all breed readily in ponds during the warmer weather. Put a male and a few females into a pond and look after them. In 6 months you will have hundreds to sell.

You could buy some livebearers (mollies, guppies, platies, swordtails) and breed them in ponds. Even loaches and Corydoras will breed in ponds. Speaking of loaches and Corydoras, they really do best in groups of 6 or more. They naturally occur in groups of hundreds in the wild and having a single fish on its own is stressful to the fish.