New Fish!

rarefish · Sep 23, 2005

Hehe... Today I got some new fish and more

! I now am the proud owner of a 38 gallon tank :kana:

! I have a whole new setup, courtesy of my mom! I've been having a really hard time lately, and she knew it would cheer me up! I also am the very proud owner of a frontosa, pictus, and Acei Cichlid(I think, can't remember exactly, I'll find out definitely by tommorow)! I also have some new plants! Don't worry, I know about cycling. I've been doing it for a while(I just don't want any negative replies while I'm having a good time

)). I'll try to post some pictures when it is set up! Just wanted to share, I'm "bouncing off the walls" from excitement

!

rarefish

Adistar · Sep 23, 2005

congrats, good luck with the new fish/tank

wuvmybetta · Sep 24, 2005

I know you don't want negative replies but a grown frontosa requires a minimum of 120 gallons

Tokis-Phoenix · Sep 24, 2005

Aern't pictus predatory fish or somthing?

Ben · Sep 24, 2005

Hi and congrats on trying to set up your new tank

But research is important before buying fish.
Pictus cats are predetory to smaller fish, should be schools of a minimum of three(more active and happy that way) and there fore should have a bigger tank.
Frontosa get close to a foot long, need to be in schools or atleast 6 and should, as said before, have a tank of atleast 120 gallons. They come from Lake Tanganyika Africa which have different requirments to the...
Pseudotropheus Acei, who are okay in a tank that size, but need more Acei to school with and have different water requirments to the Frontosa anyway.

Sorry if this was a negetive reply, just trying to help you have a happy succsesful tank.
Good Luck

DD

Kopix Nation · Sep 24, 2005

Way toooooooo small of a tank!That frontosa is going to be squished!My boss is breeding frontosas in his basement. He has them in a 200g. He has at least 10 in there....He had to move some of the older ones into a 150g because they were chasing the little baby frontosas. He says he sells them for 125$!!!!!!!!!!I am going to have a frontosa after my oscars....because they are cool fish!!

claire

rarefish · Sep 24, 2005

Right now the frontosa is only 1" long, so I will be building him a nice big tank in the near future. Sadly the pictus died, and so did the acei :byebye:

... The water stats were fine and everything. Right now I'm hoping the frontosa will be ok. It's really sad

... I know I'm going to get it from some of you, but they're the only other cichlids I've tried besides severums. Any ideas on what happened? Thanks.

rarefish