Nicholaa
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Hello Fish Forums Folk!
I am an upstate NY owner of 3 10-gallon aquariums looking to expand/combine into a minimum of a 55 gallon, perhaps going larger (freshwater). I currently am keeping only Mollies (with the exception of 3 cory cats and 2 plecos). I believe I am going to stick with the Mollies for now as I really do enjoy their friendliness and the fact that they are live bearers and my daughter loves to see when a momma Molly gives birth.
We have probably 20-25 fry in one of the 10 gallon tanks and the other 2 tanks have the other Mollies (one tank is a hospital tank right now since I have been battling ich and now I think my one has another disease - trying to diagnose is difficult, even w/the literature/websites out there.)
I bought the Dummy book for Aquariums and I am very very nervous about upgrading to a large system. I am unsure of if I want to use live plants or not - what substrate I want to use - if I want both a regular filter and an underlaying one - or do I want a canister filter? How do I want to get the tank started - do I want to jump start it with the water/substrate from my current tanks or do a long drawn out process with guppies or danios to start it? All these questions are not *meant* to be questions.. so don't move them to a forum, just to let everyone know what I am thinking right now
I could read until I'm blue in the face and I am almost afraid to come to any type of forums because I think *everyone* who claims to be a somewhat "fish expert" is still going to all have conflicting opinions. But, here I am, hoping to weed through the variety of information to see what I can find and what I can use.
Nice to meet all of you and I will be doing a lot of reading and posting before I make the final choice on the large aquarium!
I am an upstate NY owner of 3 10-gallon aquariums looking to expand/combine into a minimum of a 55 gallon, perhaps going larger (freshwater). I currently am keeping only Mollies (with the exception of 3 cory cats and 2 plecos). I believe I am going to stick with the Mollies for now as I really do enjoy their friendliness and the fact that they are live bearers and my daughter loves to see when a momma Molly gives birth.
We have probably 20-25 fry in one of the 10 gallon tanks and the other 2 tanks have the other Mollies (one tank is a hospital tank right now since I have been battling ich and now I think my one has another disease - trying to diagnose is difficult, even w/the literature/websites out there.)
I bought the Dummy book for Aquariums and I am very very nervous about upgrading to a large system. I am unsure of if I want to use live plants or not - what substrate I want to use - if I want both a regular filter and an underlaying one - or do I want a canister filter? How do I want to get the tank started - do I want to jump start it with the water/substrate from my current tanks or do a long drawn out process with guppies or danios to start it? All these questions are not *meant* to be questions.. so don't move them to a forum, just to let everyone know what I am thinking right now
I could read until I'm blue in the face and I am almost afraid to come to any type of forums because I think *everyone* who claims to be a somewhat "fish expert" is still going to all have conflicting opinions. But, here I am, hoping to weed through the variety of information to see what I can find and what I can use.
Nice to meet all of you and I will be doing a lot of reading and posting before I make the final choice on the large aquarium!
