Hardy Fish

[awesome176]

Hey wonderful forum people i have yet more questions for you .
I have a 2ft by 2ft marine tank that has been set up as a tropical tank for the last 9 months or so with a mixture of mollies corys platys tetras and snails . Female fighters up until recently i also had 2 gobys 2 ottos and a brittlenose plec which all died i went to pets at home and they said that because of the way my tank is set i should be just sticking with hardy fish that can survive both warm and cold water temps ie mollys platys danios ..i have the tank set to 21 degrees and it can raise to 28 when the room is hot .. does he have a point or feeding me a load of c@@p and what type of fish/crustations would be ideal ??

 

[eaglesaquarium]

That's a wide temp variance for a tank... might be a good idea to bump up the temp to 24-25 more constantly.
 
 
What fish are in the tank now? 
 
What's the water chemistry of your tank?  pH? kH? gH?
 
Substrate?
 
 
 
The dimensions seem odd to me... Is this a 2 foot long by 2 foot wide tank - like a 'cube'?

 

[awesome176]

Tbh i dont know the ph of the tank i know if had limescale problems in the past ... ive got a couple of bronze corys a couple of platys 4 mollies a female fighter a apple snail and two penguin tetra i did have more but i gave them away .. yes the dimentions are 2ft wide by 2ft high it holds 60 litres

 

[eaglesaquarium]

60L is fairly small...
 
The limescale would indicate that the water is fairly hard.  You sound like you might be fully stocked currently.
 
 
Bloodfin tetras would be hardy fish that can handle a wide range of temps and water parameters. 

 

[awesome176]

I did have two bloodfin but they vanished im assuming they did a finding nemo type escape or died ... i was told i can keep double what i have stocked maybe that why some died ... its a boyo marine tank MH-400 so will find out exactly what its dims are as i got it off a mate
Wow 46 litres just looked it up well maybe time to invest on a bigger tank

 

[Sophie]

Yes.. Very overstocked. I work for Pets at Home so trust me when I say listen to this forum instead of those colleagues

 

[awesome176]

Thanks fishaholic will do ☆☆

 

[Jay0173]

Yes.. Very overstocked. I work for Pets at Home so trust me when I say listen to this forum instead of those colleagues

 
That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. There use to be a mom and pop shop in downtown Burlington (Ontario, Canada) which I used to visit often. The staff there were very knowledgeable and extremely helpful to an annoying newbie such as myself. Sadly, a fire, started by an electrical short, gutted the store, killing all the livestock (fish, as well as birds, rabbits, and other animals). I often believe that in any store there is often at least one person working there who really knows their stuff, and it's that person that I will go to when I'm looking to pick something up or have questions. The store could be the most inefficiently run store with management that knows next to nothing about what they sell, but if they have at least one person working for them who knows their stuff they're worth visiting.

 

[Sophie]

 

Yes.. Very overstocked. I work for Pets at Home so trust me when I say listen to this forum instead of those colleagues

 
That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. There use to be a mom and pop shop in downtown Burlington (Ontario, Canada) which I used to visit often. The staff there were very knowledgeable and extremely helpful to an annoying newbie such as myself. Sadly, a fire, started by an electrical short, gutted the store, killing all the livestock (fish, as well as birds, rabbits, and other animals). I often believe that in any store there is often at least one person working there who really knows their stuff, and it's that person that I will go to when I'm looking to pick something up or have questions. The store could be the most inefficiently run store with management that knows next to nothing about what they sell, but if they have at least one person working for them who knows their stuff they're worth visiting.
 

 
Pets at Home is a large chain store here in England - the training provided covers the bare essentials of fish keeping, but from a retail perspective, not a kind and compassionate view like you'll find on the forum here, it's all about making a profit. I know for a fact that the people who work for the company mainly work for the money or the cute fluffy bunnies - not the fish. Some are exceptions, granted. I'd like to consider myself in that category but I certainly wasn't trying to provide a 'ringing endorsement' anyway - unless you are entirely motivated to go out and research and learn yourself, you won't know anything which sadly fish is not the top of priorities when it comes to Pets at Home.
I'm not going to lie and try and make my company look amazing and make more money when they already turnover billions each year.

 

[Jay0173]

 

 


Yes.. Very overstocked. I work for Pets at Home so trust me when I say listen to this forum instead of those colleagues

 
That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. There use to be a mom and pop shop in downtown Burlington (Ontario, Canada) which I used to visit often. The staff there were very knowledgeable and extremely helpful to an annoying newbie such as myself. Sadly, a fire, started by an electrical short, gutted the store, killing all the livestock (fish, as well as birds, rabbits, and other animals). I often believe that in any store there is often at least one person working there who really knows their stuff, and it's that person that I will go to when I'm looking to pick something up or have questions. The store could be the most inefficiently run store with management that knows next to nothing about what they sell, but if they have at least one person working for them who knows their stuff they're worth visiting.
 

 
Pets at Home is a large chain store here in England - the training provided covers the bare essentials of fish keeping, but from a retail perspective, not a kind and compassionate view like you'll find on the forum here, it's all about making a profit. I know for a fact that the people who work for the company mainly work for the money or the cute fluffy bunnies - not the fish. Some are exceptions, granted. I'd like to consider myself in that category but I certainly wasn't trying to provide a 'ringing endorsement' anyway - unless you are entirely motivated to go out and research and learn yourself, you won't know anything which sadly fish is not the top of priorities when it comes to Pets at Home.
I'm not going to lie and try and make my company look amazing and make more money when they already turnover billions each year.
 


 
Yes, it's those exceptions you speak of that I go specifically to when looking for information on potential inhabitants for my aquarium. Big chain stores do offer products at a good price, but you really want to stay away from associates whose product knowledge is limited to which products the stores want them to push. They're the ones least likely to sell something that a customer actually needs (such as selling a heater with less power than is actually required for the aquarium because it is the focus sku for that week). When it comes to livestock and plants, again, you want associates who go above and beyond the requirements of the store to actually learn about the product they're selling.

 

[awesome176]

Sadly i agree nearly all the staff at my local pets at home were clueless or tried selling me stuff that turned out i didnt need but until they relocated there was a pet store where the guy went out of his way to help if he didnt know he would look it up on the internet but there was a place that had 15 years in aquatics and their tanks had at least one dead fish everytime i went i guess it all depends on where you to .. but like i said in a previous topic ive learnt more in the week ive been on here than in the nine months ive been going to pet stores