Sick3347
New Member
Hi!! I'm fairly new to keeping fish and I have a ten gallon tank at home with lots of plants, some driftwood and a lava rock. As of right now I am keeping a male platy and 5 clouded minnows in the tank. I know clouded minnows prefer colder waters now and so i try to keep the tank at 74 to be an okay medium for the fish, plus I cant get it much colder here in Southern California being without air conditioning. I am experiencing a little trouble with the platy as of right now but other than that the tank seems to be in fine condition and the other guys are happy I think my tank has an under a lake kind of look and i really like it! I have lots of pathos and some repens and various anubius as well as moss balls and some duckweed. The tank has a topfin 10 gallon silentstreem filter as of now but I plan to change it to a bubbler filter in the near future (recommendations would be great!!) because I don't currently have oxygen going in the tank. I do have a bit of an algae problem right now but I sort of like the look of it with the lake vibe. Any recommendations to better keep my tank are greatly appreciated bc I am new! (all parameters are fine right now except the ph is a little high (7.8) because I have harder water).