Mintekk
10-11-2018, 06:18 AM
Hey guys, My mum bought me a tropical fish tank from this really dodgy fish shop not long ago it was a 28L tank and had a hell of a lot of fish in it. So please excuse me but I’ve been thrown into this hobby and have only been doing this for two months so im fairly new.
The 28L tank had
2x Juvi Discus
1x Juvi Angel fish
4x white skirt tetra
10x Neon Tetra
1x Dwarf Gourami
2 x platys
4x Guppies
After about a week I had a suspicion that there was way too many fish in the small tank…and I had to do something about it. I even went back to the store and questioned the man for selling me too many fish with his excuse being "your mum wanted it so I gave it to her" **** customer service and a **** man in general by putting fish’s lives in danger but its all for money I guess.
I have since purchased a 4ft 55Gallon (200L) tank which I have planted and placed some rocks and a bunch of timber for the fish to swim in and around.
I have an internal filter which circulates 800L/Hour and an external filter which does 700L/H so overall my water is being cycled 7.5x an hour which is nice.
My water parameters are
PH: 6.6
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
GH: 0
GK: 0
My Ph does drop a bit every couple days so I have been adding a bit of KH but the KH and GH has not been rising at all so I’m not too sure if this is an issue or how to fix it?
I have been doing a 50% water change every week
I have moved the discus and angel fish into the 4ft tank and was given another 30L tank which I moved the neon’s and platys in.
My biggest issue now is the 4ft tank. Before the cycle was finished one of the discuses died so I was left with one discus and the angel fish.
After the cycle I bought some more fish and had moved the angel and discus over.
Until recently the tank had
1x Juvi discus
1x Juvi angel fish
1x baby Reticulate/yoyo loach
2x baby khuli loaches
2x Scissor tail rasbora + 1x bloodfin tetra (which came with the second-hand tank)
2x Blue rams
4x baby SAE
3x Otocinclus catfish
My original plan was to get 2 more juvi discus so I went into a store and they said everything would be fine. I introduced the two new discus and my other had seemed to of already established himself within the tank and was hunting the two down like crazy! So I took everything out of the tank – put the fish into bags in buckets and rearranged the whole scenery in order to disorientate the discus fish and hopefully mitigate the aggression. This didn’t work at all which lead me to call up a bunch of stores (including the one where I purchased the two new juvies) and everyone said that I should buy another 3 discus. I went back into the store and purchased 2 discus and 10 cardinal tetras as the assistant suggested to get those if not buying another discus. The fighting has completely stopped, and everyone seems happy and are schooling together but my biggest worry is now overcrowding and algae control. I would like to buy some more oto catfish and maybe 2 more sae but I have a worry that this may be too much for my tank?
I’ve been stressing out about fish for a month and a half now as ive had to save up and buy fish and try and make them all as comfortable as possible.
If it helps I have :
20x bunches of plants in my tank (various types which seem to be growing great!)
1x large timber structure in the middle
2x medium timber structures to either side
and 1x (2 in total) timber structure next to each of the medium pieces of timber
I have 7x rocks in my tank (I don’t think they’re anything special but they all came with the tank when I bought it)
I've also attached some photos for a visual aid.
I would also like to add that the discus to the very right now has a small white growth on the top of one of his fins (looks like a pimple) but i can't get a photo because it's quite small and doesnt show very well.
I feel like im loosing myself in stress and an overload of tasks trying to make their home as perfect and comfortable as possible and every step I’ve taken I’ve been given horrible advice. Before anyone suggests getting another tank I honestly can’t afford another tank right now as I’ve spent close to 1500$ within the last month getting this 4ft tank set up.
I’m hoping some of you guys can help me out a bit.
The 28L tank had
2x Juvi Discus
1x Juvi Angel fish
4x white skirt tetra
10x Neon Tetra
1x Dwarf Gourami
2 x platys
4x Guppies
After about a week I had a suspicion that there was way too many fish in the small tank…and I had to do something about it. I even went back to the store and questioned the man for selling me too many fish with his excuse being "your mum wanted it so I gave it to her" **** customer service and a **** man in general by putting fish’s lives in danger but its all for money I guess.
I have since purchased a 4ft 55Gallon (200L) tank which I have planted and placed some rocks and a bunch of timber for the fish to swim in and around.
I have an internal filter which circulates 800L/Hour and an external filter which does 700L/H so overall my water is being cycled 7.5x an hour which is nice.
My water parameters are
PH: 6.6
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
GH: 0
GK: 0
My Ph does drop a bit every couple days so I have been adding a bit of KH but the KH and GH has not been rising at all so I’m not too sure if this is an issue or how to fix it?
I have been doing a 50% water change every week
I have moved the discus and angel fish into the 4ft tank and was given another 30L tank which I moved the neon’s and platys in.
My biggest issue now is the 4ft tank. Before the cycle was finished one of the discuses died so I was left with one discus and the angel fish.
After the cycle I bought some more fish and had moved the angel and discus over.
Until recently the tank had
1x Juvi discus
1x Juvi angel fish
1x baby Reticulate/yoyo loach
2x baby khuli loaches
2x Scissor tail rasbora + 1x bloodfin tetra (which came with the second-hand tank)
2x Blue rams
4x baby SAE
3x Otocinclus catfish
My original plan was to get 2 more juvi discus so I went into a store and they said everything would be fine. I introduced the two new discus and my other had seemed to of already established himself within the tank and was hunting the two down like crazy! So I took everything out of the tank – put the fish into bags in buckets and rearranged the whole scenery in order to disorientate the discus fish and hopefully mitigate the aggression. This didn’t work at all which lead me to call up a bunch of stores (including the one where I purchased the two new juvies) and everyone said that I should buy another 3 discus. I went back into the store and purchased 2 discus and 10 cardinal tetras as the assistant suggested to get those if not buying another discus. The fighting has completely stopped, and everyone seems happy and are schooling together but my biggest worry is now overcrowding and algae control. I would like to buy some more oto catfish and maybe 2 more sae but I have a worry that this may be too much for my tank?
I’ve been stressing out about fish for a month and a half now as ive had to save up and buy fish and try and make them all as comfortable as possible.
If it helps I have :
20x bunches of plants in my tank (various types which seem to be growing great!)
1x large timber structure in the middle
2x medium timber structures to either side
and 1x (2 in total) timber structure next to each of the medium pieces of timber
I have 7x rocks in my tank (I don’t think they’re anything special but they all came with the tank when I bought it)
I've also attached some photos for a visual aid.
I would also like to add that the discus to the very right now has a small white growth on the top of one of his fins (looks like a pimple) but i can't get a photo because it's quite small and doesnt show very well.
I feel like im loosing myself in stress and an overload of tasks trying to make their home as perfect and comfortable as possible and every step I’ve taken I’ve been given horrible advice. Before anyone suggests getting another tank I honestly can’t afford another tank right now as I’ve spent close to 1500$ within the last month getting this 4ft tank set up.
I’m hoping some of you guys can help me out a bit.