pinkdolphin_113
Sinclair Aquatic Systems
Hi, I am a 16 year old boy with a 250 gallon aquarium. When I got the tank for my birthday in October, I left it to circulate for about 2 weeks and then started adding the fish. I put all the fish I buy in a smaller 20 gallon tank for a week or two for quarentine or something i read about...you know just to be sure.
Anyway, I started off with 4 platies, 1 male and 3 females, a female and male dwarf gourami and two pleco's (common and a yellow one with brown spots which I don't know the name of). The 'unnamed' one died and I don't know why. The tank was new but it wasn't shy to eat the algae wafers I gave them but the other one, shy as anything, hardly eats anything!
Getting to my problem. I've had the tank up and running for about 3 weeks when 2 females died. I have never found out what killed them but the tragedy left only a male and female in the tank together. This didn't seem to bother them at all. They seemed most at home so I left them. A week and abit later on, I read on a few web pages that Tiger Barbs are fin nippers and shouldn't be kept with elongated finned fish, which was ok because i haven't got any, so I went out and bout 20 or 25 or round about those figures. They were looking to be getting along with all the other fish in there so I was happy as well as the fish
A few days later, I bought 2 of each, in my opinion were the most common, corydoras. Panda, Swartzi, Bronze, Albino and Peppered. These brought more character to the tank than before.
Now everything running smoothly and working in order and no fish dying, I thought I would try a new fish. I was thinking about a bigger fish, just to make things level out...a shoal, bottom feeders, fish on the walls and a big fish. I dragged my mum to the fish shop to look at fish that would go well. I think she saw me stood looking at the shoal of angels which was one of the best sights ever! I was looking around because she said she would treat me to any fish for christmas. Then I saw a pengasius catfish. The fish looked pretty small so I got 3 lol. I also saw a clown knife fish in the same shop which I bought. I was keen on buying the knife fish because it was a gorgeous fish but wasn't because of the stuff I've read about it...what ever fits in it's mouth, will end up in it's mouth. However, a bigger tank at home downstairs is where I was going to put it if just one tiger barb was missing, so I had a back-up plan.
My mum was telling me my tank would look better with a few more, "bigger fish." One day I came home to an angelfish in my tank! I was panicing because of my big shoal of nipping tiger barbs but I told myself to hold on a minute. This new angelfish was swimming round the tank with the tiger barbs. I was pretty chuffed with this because the size of my shoal had seemed to eliminate the fin nipping problem
My tank is well planted and am thinking about getting a pictus catfish but people say they cause problems, I dunno. I wish I could get photos to put as my little picture but I have no camera!
Anyway, it's nice to join and know I will probably get help on alot of problems I might get
Anyway, I started off with 4 platies, 1 male and 3 females, a female and male dwarf gourami and two pleco's (common and a yellow one with brown spots which I don't know the name of). The 'unnamed' one died and I don't know why. The tank was new but it wasn't shy to eat the algae wafers I gave them but the other one, shy as anything, hardly eats anything!
Getting to my problem. I've had the tank up and running for about 3 weeks when 2 females died. I have never found out what killed them but the tragedy left only a male and female in the tank together. This didn't seem to bother them at all. They seemed most at home so I left them. A week and abit later on, I read on a few web pages that Tiger Barbs are fin nippers and shouldn't be kept with elongated finned fish, which was ok because i haven't got any, so I went out and bout 20 or 25 or round about those figures. They were looking to be getting along with all the other fish in there so I was happy as well as the fish
A few days later, I bought 2 of each, in my opinion were the most common, corydoras. Panda, Swartzi, Bronze, Albino and Peppered. These brought more character to the tank than before.
Now everything running smoothly and working in order and no fish dying, I thought I would try a new fish. I was thinking about a bigger fish, just to make things level out...a shoal, bottom feeders, fish on the walls and a big fish. I dragged my mum to the fish shop to look at fish that would go well. I think she saw me stood looking at the shoal of angels which was one of the best sights ever! I was looking around because she said she would treat me to any fish for christmas. Then I saw a pengasius catfish. The fish looked pretty small so I got 3 lol. I also saw a clown knife fish in the same shop which I bought. I was keen on buying the knife fish because it was a gorgeous fish but wasn't because of the stuff I've read about it...what ever fits in it's mouth, will end up in it's mouth. However, a bigger tank at home downstairs is where I was going to put it if just one tiger barb was missing, so I had a back-up plan.
My mum was telling me my tank would look better with a few more, "bigger fish." One day I came home to an angelfish in my tank! I was panicing because of my big shoal of nipping tiger barbs but I told myself to hold on a minute. This new angelfish was swimming round the tank with the tiger barbs. I was pretty chuffed with this because the size of my shoal had seemed to eliminate the fin nipping problem
My tank is well planted and am thinking about getting a pictus catfish but people say they cause problems, I dunno. I wish I could get photos to put as my little picture but I have no camera!
Anyway, it's nice to join and know I will probably get help on alot of problems I might get
