Newbie Needs Help?!?

[cally]

HI,
new to this, have a fluval 200L roma set up, been running
over a week, added my first fish yesterday, 2 small golden severums
and 6 neon tetras, everything fine yest, checked this morning
and neons gone!!! i'd say severums are only 2" at the most!!
have they eaten the lot!?!

cheers in advance
rich

 

[Tolak]

Being cichlids probably. If they think it will fit in their mouth they will at least try to eat it.

 

[PDSimon]

I imagine tolaks are right...cichlids love food.

Have you 'cycled' your tank? or just bought it and added fish?

It sounds like a fish-in cycle that you've entered, I would definately advise reading through the resource centre on this forum as cichlids aren't suited to cycling.

 

[arobinson1984]

I'm guessing by the fact you said the tank has been running a week that it isnt cycled unless you have moved some mature media from another tank?

If not then you will be in a fish-in cycle situation, have a read up on cycling by reading the links in my signature.

Also agree that the sevs will have probably eaten the neons, sevs grow fairly large and aren't a fish that you can keep with small shoaling fish so do research before adding anything else into the tank. If the tank isnt cycled and has only been running a week then dont add anymore fish at the moment as it will make the situation worse.


Andy

 

[OldMan47]

Welcome to the forum Cally. I see others have already started asking about whether your tank is cycled.
Neons make expensive food for severums. Just in case you don't already know it, you are fully stocked in that tank with two severums. Severums are very large fish when they get to be a couple of years old. My own experience with them is just watching them breeding in my daughter's tank where they were over 8 inches long each and were rather heavy bodied fish. I had been called by a crisis need for microworms which I happened to have on hand. I have never had the room for severums in my own tanks. If you choose to keep them, and they turn out to be a pair, you will be delighted with their antics during breeding. They will rearrange everything in the tank to suit themselves though.