Thought I'd Drop In ...

[Jabba]

Hi All,

Got a confession ... I am not a fish keeper through choice ... we just moved house, the previous occupants left a rather large tropical freshwater tank complete with occupants, one of whom is apparently quite sick, it is equipped and functional and loved by the missus ... and kind of interests me too .... so I guess we jump onto the learning curve ....

My last encounter with tropical fish / aquariums was 30 years ago at my grandfathers so I can remember squat - except I know he spent a lot of time maintaining and doing other chores like stopping the occupants eating each other.

Alas I'm sure it will grow on me once the fear of keeping and maintaining such a thing goes away.

I'll be asking some questions elsewhere for sure tonight ......

 

[Tetras]

Hi Jabba and Welcome!!

There is a large tank in your new house very jealous.

Anyways, sorry that one fish is sick, the emergency section is excellent and you can expect great advice there.

Hopefully you are able to identify the ones you have, if you haven't allready. We will for sure help you out with that, the fish index has a lot of pic's and googling images is of course also very good.

 

[Jabba]

Thanks - I will try to post more info as I learn - especially about what is in there, at the moment it looks like one silver dollar, 3 or 4 neon tetras, a couple of guys who are orange with black tails and some others - can you post a link to the 'index' so I can try and identify them ....

 

[Tetras]

I am really bad at figuring out the whole links thing so I shall explain how you find the fish you have listed so far, bear with me.

Fishindex is the forum below the newbee section.

Subforum: Characins: silver dollar and neon tetras are here

Subforum: Livebearer: Platy (I think maybe this is the orange one you are talking about, I am prob wrong.)

How this helps

 

[Jabba]

Well I found it and yes I think you are right about the Platy ... but there seem to be many variations ... oh boy this is going to be hard work ....

 

[Tetras]

Ah yes, the joys of fishkeeping. No doubt my fish and shrimp are plotting to rob me of precious time looking for info on them constantly.

1 piece of advice: If you don't have a liquid testing kit, get one, it will be needed and is so worth the money, not the strips, the liquid. Ammonia, nitrites and nitrates are very important to know in your new hobby.

 

[rob newland]

Okay is it a light orange platy like

or a darker one like:

Rob

 

[Jabba]

It's the top one for sure .....

 

[rob newland]

exactly the top one? If so that is a wagtail platy. Or could it be a mickey mouse platy (three spots on the tail, although they are not always clearly defined).