Maff
Fish Fanatic
In a nut shell, the fish in cycle went really well
Friday 15th Jan. 150 liter tank, established media filter added along with Evolution Aqua’s PURE Aquarium gel balls. Added 5 juvenile black ruby barbs.
Tank cycled quickly and within a week I'd gone through a couple of low spikes with increased feeding schedules but got it stable for four days solid with no spikes anywhere.
8 days later added 4 young guppies and only spike I had afterwards was 0.1PPM ammonia which has now long gone.
The young guppies are hanging around the top of the tank quite a lot only occasionally coming deep and the barbs are in the bottom third. Need something colourful for the centre of the tank which is quite tall at 55cm. At some point I was going to add either 2 gourami's or 2 rainbow fish but I've never kept either before so need advice.
My plans were to add neon tetras but my high PH has changed my plans (PH8), so now going for platties or swordtales to replace that particular idea.
The new total stock plan is thus -
5 black ruby barbs
4 guppies
4 platties or sword tales
2 centre piece fish gourami or rainbow fish
4 danios
4 corydoras.
That adds up to about 120 to 130cm of fish tops and I have about 135 liters after substrate and ornaments so I should be OK. Is there anything that might limit the presence of gourami's in the list as well as having a PH of 8?
The bacteria culture is coping with the ammonia tremendously well at the moment but the tank is looking quite empty due to a lot of juveniles in there. Should I put my centre piece fish in now or stick others on the list in there first? This will be 4 days after no spikes and normal feeding patterns resumed.
Friday 15th Jan. 150 liter tank, established media filter added along with Evolution Aqua’s PURE Aquarium gel balls. Added 5 juvenile black ruby barbs.
Tank cycled quickly and within a week I'd gone through a couple of low spikes with increased feeding schedules but got it stable for four days solid with no spikes anywhere.
8 days later added 4 young guppies and only spike I had afterwards was 0.1PPM ammonia which has now long gone.
The young guppies are hanging around the top of the tank quite a lot only occasionally coming deep and the barbs are in the bottom third. Need something colourful for the centre of the tank which is quite tall at 55cm. At some point I was going to add either 2 gourami's or 2 rainbow fish but I've never kept either before so need advice.
My plans were to add neon tetras but my high PH has changed my plans (PH8), so now going for platties or swordtales to replace that particular idea.
The new total stock plan is thus -
5 black ruby barbs
4 guppies
4 platties or sword tales
2 centre piece fish gourami or rainbow fish
4 danios
4 corydoras.
That adds up to about 120 to 130cm of fish tops and I have about 135 liters after substrate and ornaments so I should be OK. Is there anything that might limit the presence of gourami's in the list as well as having a PH of 8?
The bacteria culture is coping with the ammonia tremendously well at the moment but the tank is looking quite empty due to a lot of juveniles in there. Should I put my centre piece fish in now or stick others on the list in there first? This will be 4 days after no spikes and normal feeding patterns resumed.