My First Ever Fun Tank

[Peter C]

Ello everyone, just bought my first ever fish tank

Got the tank from a uk site, £103 delivered

90 litre bow front tank

Decided to go for black gravel and plain black background

Playing about with the lid, pump and heater. My dad has had a lot of tanks in the past an said to move the heater more central

Filled with plants, water and with my new stand I just bought today

Complete with lights on.

Any advice on the plants? I'm expecting them to be dead within a week lol

Cheers

 

[The Taffy Apple]

I'm not the person to give advice about plants, but i notice your heater is horizontal...if at all possible put it at an angle, this then allows the heat given off to circulate around your tank, rather than raising straight up and potentially telling the thermostat that your tank water is at the relative temp, when it isn't.
Any ideas about your stocking? How do you plan on cycling the filter?

Terry.

 

[Aqua Tom]

I'm not the person to give advice about plants, but i notice your heater is horizontal...if at all possible put it at an angle, this then allows the heat given off to circulate around your tank, rather than raising straight up and potentially telling the thermostat that your tank water is at the relative temp, when it isn't.
Any ideas about your stocking? How do you plan on cycling the filter?

Terry.

+1, move the filter to a 45 degree angle with the control knob at the top.


Tom

 

[Gilli]

Choose dark leaved plants as they will grow better in low light. I take it you will be doing a fishless cycle?

 

[Peter C]

What's all this cycle talk? I'm a complete beginner ha

 

[The Taffy Apple]

What's all this cycle talk? I'm a complete beginner ha

There is a link above the picture of my tank in my signature below, click on that and have a good read. It may not be as simply as you think.

Terry,

 

[Peter C]

Still lost as to what the term means lol

Read through it but most of it is going above my head!

 

[The Taffy Apple]

Still lost as to what the term means lol

Read through it but most of it is going above my head!

When we pee, it contains Ammonia, which is a poison. Our fish do this in our tanks. Unless there is a way of getting rid of this Ammonia then it will kill your fish within a matter of days. A very slow, painful death.
In our filters we grow a colony of millions of microscopic bacteria, which eat this Ammonia, turning it into NitrIte (which is still very harmful), another load of bacteria then eat this and turn it into NitrAte (which is only harmful when it big numbers, but we combat this with weekly water changes).
So... you have a few options...
1/ This is NOT recommended on here, but is widely recommended by alot of fish and pet stores. You buy your first few fish, these in turn release small amounts of Ammonia into the water until, over a period of weeks, a colony of bacteria will grow and carry out the 'cycle' as i stated above.
2/ This IS recommended on this forum, as it's the safest for our fish.Do a complete 'fish-less' cycle. To do this we physically add household Ammonia into our empty tank to mirror the effects of what the fish would be doing, again slowly building up the bacteria colony ready for when we add our first fish.
3/ The best way to get started is this..find someone with a healthy, matue tank (look in the section within this forum for 'members willing to donate) or it could be a friend, and ask them to donate some sponge or other 'media' that already has these millions of bacteria on it, saving you the time of going through a fishless cycle or slowly poisoning your fish to death.

You have found the right forum for information and help for a healthy fish tank, best of luck with it.

Terry.

 

[Peter C]

Still lost as to what the term means lol

Read through it but most of it is going above my head!

When we pee, it contains Ammonia, which is a poison. Our fish do this in our tanks. Unless there is a way of getting rid of this Ammonia then it will kill your fish within a matter of days. A very slow, painful death.
In our filters we grow a colony of millions of microscopic bacteria, which eat this Ammonia, turning it into NitrIte (which is still very harmful), another load of bacteria then eat this and turn it into NitrAte (which is only harmful when it big numbers, but we combat this with weekly water changes).
So... you have a few options...
1/ This is NOT recommended on here, but is widely recommended by alot of fish and pet stores. You buy your first few fish, these in turn release small amounts of Ammonia into the water until, over a period of weeks, a colony of bacteria will grow and carry out the 'cycle' as i stated above.
2/ This IS recommended on this forum, as it's the safest for our fish.Do a complete 'fish-less' cycle. To do this we physically add household Ammonia into our empty tank to mirror the effects of what the fish would be doing, again slowly building up the bacteria colony ready for when we add our first fish.
3/ The best way to get started is this..find someone with a healthy, matue tank (look in the section within this forum for 'members willing to donate) or it could be a friend, and ask them to donate some sponge or other 'media' that already has these millions of bacteria on it, saving you the time of going through a fishless cycle or slowly poisoning your fish to death.

You have found the right forum for information and help for a healthy fish tank, best of luck with it.

Terry.

Nice one or tht. Il head out tomorrow for some ammonia as I can't really be arsed buying fish just for them to die a week later!

I'm looking at having fish wise, guppies, endlers guppies, tetras, X-ray tetras? And angel fish. Would they all go together ok?

 

[The Taffy Apple]

Still lost as to what the term means lol

Read through it but most of it is going above my head!

When we pee, it contains Ammonia, which is a poison. Our fish do this in our tanks. Unless there is a way of getting rid of this Ammonia then it will kill your fish within a matter of days. A very slow, painful death.
In our filters we grow a colony of millions of microscopic bacteria, which eat this Ammonia, turning it into NitrIte (which is still very harmful), another load of bacteria then eat this and turn it into NitrAte (which is only harmful when it big numbers, but we combat this with weekly water changes).
So... you have a few options...
1/ This is NOT recommended on here, but is widely recommended by alot of fish and pet stores. You buy your first few fish, these in turn release small amounts of Ammonia into the water until, over a period of weeks, a colony of bacteria will grow and carry out the 'cycle' as i stated above.
2/ This IS recommended on this forum, as it's the safest for our fish.Do a complete 'fish-less' cycle. To do this we physically add household Ammonia into our empty tank to mirror the effects of what the fish would be doing, again slowly building up the bacteria colony ready for when we add our first fish.
3/ The best way to get started is this..find someone with a healthy, matue tank (look in the section within this forum for 'members willing to donate) or it could be a friend, and ask them to donate some sponge or other 'media' that already has these millions of bacteria on it, saving you the time of going through a fishless cycle or slowly poisoning your fish to death.

You have found the right forum for information and help for a healthy fish tank, best of luck with it.

Terry.

Nice one or tht. Il head out tomorrow for some ammonia as I can't really be arsed buying fish just for them to die a week later!

I'm looking at having fish wise, guppies, endlers guppies, tetras, X-ray tetras? And angel fish. Would they all go together ok?

Everything apart from the Angel fish. They need alot more room than your current tank can provide. for choosing the fishless cycle !!!

Terry.

 

[Peter C]

Still lost as to what the term means lol

Read through it but most of it is going above my head!

When we pee, it contains Ammonia, which is a poison. Our fish do this in our tanks. Unless there is a way of getting rid of this Ammonia then it will kill your fish within a matter of days. A very slow, painful death.
In our filters we grow a colony of millions of microscopic bacteria, which eat this Ammonia, turning it into NitrIte (which is still very harmful), another load of bacteria then eat this and turn it into NitrAte (which is only harmful when it big numbers, but we combat this with weekly water changes).
So... you have a few options...
1/ This is NOT recommended on here, but is widely recommended by alot of fish and pet stores. You buy your first few fish, these in turn release small amounts of Ammonia into the water until, over a period of weeks, a colony of bacteria will grow and carry out the 'cycle' as i stated above.
2/ This IS recommended on this forum, as it's the safest for our fish.Do a complete 'fish-less' cycle. To do this we physically add household Ammonia into our empty tank to mirror the effects of what the fish would be doing, again slowly building up the bacteria colony ready for when we add our first fish.
3/ The best way to get started is this..find someone with a healthy, matue tank (look in the section within this forum for 'members willing to donate) or it could be a friend, and ask them to donate some sponge or other 'media' that already has these millions of bacteria on it, saving you the time of going through a fishless cycle or slowly poisoning your fish to death.

You have found the right forum for information and help for a healthy fish tank, best of luck with it.

Terry.

Nice one or tht. Il head out tomorrow for some ammonia as I can't really be arsed buying fish just for them to die a week later!

I'm looking at having fish wise, guppies, endlers guppies, tetras, X-ray tetras? And angel fish. Would they all go together ok?

Everything apart from the Angel fish. They need alot more room than your current tank can provide. for choosing the fishless cycle !!!

Terry.

Even as babies? I'm not intending on having huge ones like

 

[ZoddyZod]

you should not plan to add any fish that gets too big for your tank. Angels reach their adult size relatively quickly.

 

[Salam]

Nice tank May I ask, where did you get it from? I really like it.

Agree with what others said, no angels. The rest will live happily in your tank.

 

[Peter C]

Nice tank May I ask, where did you get it from? I really like it.

Agree with what others said, no angels. The rest will live happily in your tank.

Seapets.co.uk pal

Really good looking tank. Came with heater, pump, lid, light, water treatment and food. Delivery was only about 3 quid and it came really well packaged. Would deffo recommend them

 

[Salam]

Thanks, will have a browse.