Help Needed

[j.c]

I need some help on setting up and aquarium with livebearers what is best and what type of water conditions do they like?oh,and by the way the tank is 4ft.and what else can i put in with them such as gourami,bettas and others.
thanx

 

[timmystood]

We could do with the capacity of the tank!

 

[WILDER]

Plus betta and gouramis won't get along.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

4ft tank sounds like a good size to work with but you still need to find out the gallons. A thread on exactly the same topic as this was done yesterday, if you check out the link it may give you some ideas on which livebearers you prefer;

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=120519

Gouramis are quite a specialised species, checking out the pinned articles in the Gourami/Anabantoids section will give you alot of insight into which are the peaceful species and which are the agressive/semi agressive one and what size tanks they require.
Most people will have some bottom dwelling fish, like a group of corys or a type of plec, a shoaling species like tetras, barbs or danios and a centre peice or mid to top dwelling species. What sort/types of fish are you into other than livebearers ? Bettas are ok, but male ones don't make good community fish and females require to be in large groups of at least 5-6 to spread out the agression between them.

 

[j.c]

4ft tank sounds like a good size to work with but you still need to find out the gallons. A thread on exactly the same topic as this was done yesterday, if you check out the link it may give you some ideas on which livebearers you prefer;

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=120519

Gouramis are quite a specialised species, checking out the pinned articles in the Gourami/Anabantoids section will give you alot of insight into which are the peaceful species and which are the agressive/semi agressive one and what size tanks they require.
Most people will have some bottom dwelling fish, like a group of corys or a type of plec, a shoaling species like tetras, barbs or danios and a centre peice or mid to top dwelling species. What sort/types of fish are you into other than livebearers ? Bettas are ok, but male ones don't make good community fish and females require to be in large groups of at least 5-6 to spread out the agression between them.

the tank is 200 litres and do you have to put salt in if you keep mollies?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Not nesarsarily- it depends on wether the lfs's(local fish store's) mollys are brackish(semi marine/salt water) bred or freshwater bred- if they are brackish mollys they most likely won't thrive to well in a completely salt-free tank, while if they are freshwater bred ones it shouldn't be a problem as long as you give them a varied diet(veg, high protein foods) and maybe some liquid multi vitamini/mineral supliment from time to time; i have a freshwater bred female molly since she was a fry and she has been in perfect health now for 2 and a half years, brackish mollys on the other hand i have bought have usually had a series of health problems.

Before you decide to go completely freshwater, check out the brackish section of the forum as well as brackish enviroments have a whole load of unique and easy to care for fish if you are willing to go that extra step towards supporting a brackish tank .