Hi guys, figured that after all my lurking I should say hello.
I have alterior motives though, I could do with some clarification that what i'm doing is ok for my fishes.
I've had a 26gallon (UK) tank for a few years now, containing goldfish and chinese loaches. Over the past six months I lost all bar one of my goldfish due to accidents and disease, and all bar one of my chinese loaches. Obviously it'd be kinda cruel to keep a goldfish on his own so I offloaded the remaining fish to a friend with a pond and took my first steps into Tropical fish keeping.
£100 later and a dozen plants, sand, heater and 7 neon tetras and my tank is up and running. It looks pretty sweet too. I did have to keep the goldfish in the tank with the tetras overnight, but i got offloaded him first thing in the morning cos the tetras were scared ****les of him and wouldn't feed. Anyway, that's done and dusted.
I've just added a diy co2 system (2lr bottle, 4 cups of sugar, 2tsp yeast, airline and airstone) which emits loadsa bubbles, not anywhere near as much as my airpump of course, but alot more than the 1 or 2 bubbles per second that I'd been expecting. It's more like 10 a second, is this dangerous?
My tank is at 25 degrees, which from what i've read is about perfect for tetras, any idea whether this is within range for a Chinese Loach? He seems happy enough, even made himself a new home at the front of the tank which is nice cos now I can actually see him.
Also, I bought some Brine Shrimp eggs ages ago for my goldies, which I hatched in a milk bottle kept in the airing cupboard to keep it at hatching temperature (I didn't have a heater back then). I soon got bored of that and forgot about them (the bottle, not the hatched shrimp). Anyway, it occurred to me yesterday that now that the tank is at 25 degs, I should be able to pour a few drops in and they'll hatch in the tank. Thing is, i fed my fish this morning with no problems, but now that I'm sat watching them, they're full on hunting these hatched shrimp, and i'm a little concerned that they'll over eat (loadsa horror stories about people feeding their fish to death). Any advice on this would be groovy.
Lastly, i'm going to pick up some more tetras at the weekend (7 tetras in a 26 gallon tank is kinda sparse), there seem to be lots of types of neon tetras, like red bellied ones n all sorts. Will they shoal together or are they a bit racist? If they won't, i'll go for something totally different looking otherwise a shoal of multi coloured tetras would be kinda nice looking.
Thanks in advance for the advice guys.
I have alterior motives though, I could do with some clarification that what i'm doing is ok for my fishes.
I've had a 26gallon (UK) tank for a few years now, containing goldfish and chinese loaches. Over the past six months I lost all bar one of my goldfish due to accidents and disease, and all bar one of my chinese loaches. Obviously it'd be kinda cruel to keep a goldfish on his own so I offloaded the remaining fish to a friend with a pond and took my first steps into Tropical fish keeping.
£100 later and a dozen plants, sand, heater and 7 neon tetras and my tank is up and running. It looks pretty sweet too. I did have to keep the goldfish in the tank with the tetras overnight, but i got offloaded him first thing in the morning cos the tetras were scared ****les of him and wouldn't feed. Anyway, that's done and dusted.
I've just added a diy co2 system (2lr bottle, 4 cups of sugar, 2tsp yeast, airline and airstone) which emits loadsa bubbles, not anywhere near as much as my airpump of course, but alot more than the 1 or 2 bubbles per second that I'd been expecting. It's more like 10 a second, is this dangerous?
My tank is at 25 degrees, which from what i've read is about perfect for tetras, any idea whether this is within range for a Chinese Loach? He seems happy enough, even made himself a new home at the front of the tank which is nice cos now I can actually see him.
Also, I bought some Brine Shrimp eggs ages ago for my goldies, which I hatched in a milk bottle kept in the airing cupboard to keep it at hatching temperature (I didn't have a heater back then). I soon got bored of that and forgot about them (the bottle, not the hatched shrimp). Anyway, it occurred to me yesterday that now that the tank is at 25 degs, I should be able to pour a few drops in and they'll hatch in the tank. Thing is, i fed my fish this morning with no problems, but now that I'm sat watching them, they're full on hunting these hatched shrimp, and i'm a little concerned that they'll over eat (loadsa horror stories about people feeding their fish to death). Any advice on this would be groovy.
Lastly, i'm going to pick up some more tetras at the weekend (7 tetras in a 26 gallon tank is kinda sparse), there seem to be lots of types of neon tetras, like red bellied ones n all sorts. Will they shoal together or are they a bit racist? If they won't, i'll go for something totally different looking otherwise a shoal of multi coloured tetras would be kinda nice looking.
Thanks in advance for the advice guys.
