Newbie Advice

[Wills]

In the first week you would expect to see the rise in ammonia I think its usually 3 or so weeks before ammonia drops and nitrite rises - but now you have an ammonia source the bacteria will start to colonise. Just be sure to keep the levels below .25 via water changes

Wills

 

[kaznpaul]

Okay! Thanks!

 

[Assaye]

Just checking - you're using water conditioner now, right? Been reading the thread and you've had some great advice but I didn't se this mentioned again.

For water conditioner, don't just get the cheapest. Get one that removes chlorine, chloramine and heavy metals, and ideally on that states it locks ammonia into a safer form (you get ammonia from breaking down chloramine as well as from fish).

By a viking fighter did you mean a siamese fighter AKA betta splendens? These are not generally recommended for community tanks, especially not ones with cichlids like angel fish, fin-nippers like danios and aggressiv fish like sharks.

 

[timmer21]

Hi,

I can see your getting lots of help already so i stay clear the one thing i would like to say is find a new fish shop as the one your going to is a load of rubbish, they are qiving you lots of poor advice and just seem to want to keep there till ringing instead of looking after there customer and there fish.

 

[kaznpaul]

I've been using water conditioner, I think it's made by Tetra but I'll have to check, it says on the bottle that it works with chlorine and a few other things. I'm not getting a fighter now as I've been advised a few times that they don't mix well. How many fish do you think a tank this size can take once it's cycled keeping in mind that its tall and narrow so doesn't have that much surface area for it's size?

Thanks!

Paul.