Hi there,
I currently have 2 5 gallon tanks set up about a month ago each housing one Betta and 3 ghost shrimp each. I have decided to start a 10 gallon low tech aquascape setup with 8 neon tetras, an aquabid male half moon, and a handful of cherry shrimp (myself like most people are OBSESSED with my new aquarium hobby and and sparing no expense for my last tank as a 21st birthday present to myself).
On to my main point--
I had originally planned to spend a month or so gathering my necessary items together and take a lot of time to plan and execute this last tank. I already have an exact idea of what I'm going for and how I'm going to do it, I was just going to buy stuff little by little instead of buying everything at one time to help with my hundreds of dollars worth of stuff I need. However, I found the most GORGEOUS koi half moon male on aquabid. I have never purchased from aquabid before and was a bit skeptical, but I had never seen a Betta like this before and probably never will. After watching him for 3 days I finally gave in and bidded on him in a panic after someone else bid on him. Needless to say I won and am so excited about my last Betta (for now)
Here's a picture of him:
https://ibb.co/iPzX1b
I will name him Komodo, after the Komodo dragon.
Anyways I have purchased everything I need to start my aquascape on my 10 gallon, I even paid $50 extra to have everything express shipped from Amazon and am expecting everything to arrive next week and will have the tank set up by the weekend. The buyer is shipping my Betta out on the 14th so I will assume I will get him the last week if January. I'm hoping to have my tank cycled before he arrives but I would like my neons to have the tank to themselves for a week to get situated before I put Komodo in. I have a one gallon hospital tank currently housing my other Betta Mushu, who is doing great recovering from fin rot (his 5 gallon is stuck in a constant. 25ppm nitrite...still trying to fix that before his course of meds are done). It's a hard bottom with nothing but a Betta leaf, heater, filter, and thermometer. Any opinions on keeping my new Komodo in this one gallon for a week or two while I properly finish his permanent 10 gallon? I'm assuming like most breeders he's already being kept I'm a similar half gallon or one gallon set up anyways. Here's a picture of the tank (Mushu is pictured in it and the water is green from his dosage of API fungus cure which is absolutely amazing for bad fin rot btw)
https://ibb.co/nbeAnG
I plan on just doing 100% daily water changes conditioned tap using seachem prime to keep his ammonia and nitrite levels down since I have no desire to actually cycle this tank since it is a hospital tank. Any advice or opinions welcome!!
I currently have 2 5 gallon tanks set up about a month ago each housing one Betta and 3 ghost shrimp each. I have decided to start a 10 gallon low tech aquascape setup with 8 neon tetras, an aquabid male half moon, and a handful of cherry shrimp (myself like most people are OBSESSED with my new aquarium hobby and and sparing no expense for my last tank as a 21st birthday present to myself).
On to my main point--
I had originally planned to spend a month or so gathering my necessary items together and take a lot of time to plan and execute this last tank. I already have an exact idea of what I'm going for and how I'm going to do it, I was just going to buy stuff little by little instead of buying everything at one time to help with my hundreds of dollars worth of stuff I need. However, I found the most GORGEOUS koi half moon male on aquabid. I have never purchased from aquabid before and was a bit skeptical, but I had never seen a Betta like this before and probably never will. After watching him for 3 days I finally gave in and bidded on him in a panic after someone else bid on him. Needless to say I won and am so excited about my last Betta (for now)
Here's a picture of him:
https://ibb.co/iPzX1b
I will name him Komodo, after the Komodo dragon.
Anyways I have purchased everything I need to start my aquascape on my 10 gallon, I even paid $50 extra to have everything express shipped from Amazon and am expecting everything to arrive next week and will have the tank set up by the weekend. The buyer is shipping my Betta out on the 14th so I will assume I will get him the last week if January. I'm hoping to have my tank cycled before he arrives but I would like my neons to have the tank to themselves for a week to get situated before I put Komodo in. I have a one gallon hospital tank currently housing my other Betta Mushu, who is doing great recovering from fin rot (his 5 gallon is stuck in a constant. 25ppm nitrite...still trying to fix that before his course of meds are done). It's a hard bottom with nothing but a Betta leaf, heater, filter, and thermometer. Any opinions on keeping my new Komodo in this one gallon for a week or two while I properly finish his permanent 10 gallon? I'm assuming like most breeders he's already being kept I'm a similar half gallon or one gallon set up anyways. Here's a picture of the tank (Mushu is pictured in it and the water is green from his dosage of API fungus cure which is absolutely amazing for bad fin rot btw)
https://ibb.co/nbeAnG
I plan on just doing 100% daily water changes conditioned tap using seachem prime to keep his ammonia and nitrite levels down since I have no desire to actually cycle this tank since it is a hospital tank. Any advice or opinions welcome!!