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whats an aerator?
gawsh i just noticed i dont know that many words anymore
 

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Originally Posted by jugen

We have 5 tanks. One is a 125 gln fresh water with an Oscar, gourmais, catfish, plecos, Jewel Cichild,a convict cichild, a fire eel,and an earth eater.
We have a 55 gln with Tangyikan cichilds in it.(and a pleco and three mollies for algae control)
We also have a 55 gln with Nosy bees, a Chocolate Cichlid,cherry Barbs,Weather loaches, algae eaters, a brown knife fish,Clown fish, turquiose cichilds, flying foxes,and a Zipper loach.
We also have a 20 gln with albino cory catfish, a turquiose cichilid, a flying fox.
the last tank is a 30 gln Salt water tank with black and white clown fish, a wrasse, a dwarf puffer fish, and a shrimp goby along with a pistol shrimp, and a damsel.
Right now we have the Oscar and the Gourmai separated because the groumai is a true one that grows to 2 and a 1/2 feet long and they are cramped in the tank and we are waiting for our 240 gln tank to be delivered so they have more room to live together.
We HAD the tank last month but on the way home it was hit by some stupid girl who was talking on her cell phone and ws destroyed so we are waiting for the guy to redeliver it to us on the 19th of this month.
Oh I'm jealous...


All I have is two ten gallons and 42 gallon, which I am moving all the fish out of into a ten gallon as I was letting them all fish die of old age (there are only a few of the original fish left, then restock after I move in July.

And speaking of kitties and fish tanks...my boys love watching the fish. I gotta take this chance to repost this picture as it was lost in the down time.



Now if I could just convince him that the betta doesn't need a kitty visiting. (One or the other of the cats keeps shifting the hood, I think they're jumping down from the entertainment center.
 

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Aerator, I'm not sure if there's another word for it or what it technically does but it basically blows bubbles in the tank, kinda adds oxygen (?) and keeps it moving so that the water doesn't just sit there.

I'm no professional, that's just what I understood.
 

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we have some tanks with bottom feeders and some without. Brad still cleans the tanks every week. He will take a "vacum" of sorts and syphon some of the water out while sucking the yuck off the bottom. You'd be amazed at how much nasty stuff comes out of a fish! The bottom feeders won't eat the poop so you should get that out. By the time you do what is called a water change, the poop and food are pretty well mixed together and you can't tell them apart(unless you have monster big fish like we do, then you can tell!
now if we could get them to use an underwater litter box!
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Then after brad takes most of the nasty gunk out he will put fresh water back into the tank. It seems to keep the fish quite hardy and healthy. We haven't lost one in a LONG time. Brad is very anal about his fish and if he doesn't know the answer about something, he will look it up and research it until he's postive that is the correct answer.
How big is your tank? Be careful what kind of fish you get so you don't overcrowd the tank when they get bigger. Do you have a filter for it? are you getting gravel or sand? Have you researched the fish you're getting? Some fish can only be fed certain foods. Some can only be fed live foods. If you're getting algae eaters, that's a good start since there will always be something for them to eat after awhile, until then you can get algae pellets that they can eat so they dont' starve.(especially if you just set up the tank recently)
Yes some bottom feeders will eat dead fish. If you have a saltwater tank, sometimes if your fish dies the crabs will eat it and you'll never have to even scoop it out of the tank.(nasty I know but the honest truth.)
Now I am by no means an expert in fish, I just know what Brad knows and we have a friend that works in a fish store so he helps us out when we need help also.
 
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I have a filter, heater, Gravel.
But like the filter is this tube and then it brings the water up to the top, there was like this spongy hard thing?? and it was completely rotten and i replaced it but inside its got like little stones so im kind of puzzled.
I also have these 2 bottles of liquid stuff and im meant to put 5 ml in the tank its blue and then a bottle cap in the tank. its to clean out bacterias and stuff.
I dont want to over crowd my tank i only want 2 - 4 fishies. I actually only planned to get algae eaters because they are so lovely! but i will get a fish too they are very small they dont grow big the ones ive seen are only as big as my finger nail and they are half a centimetre. When i go tomorrow Ill get the name i will do further research.
 

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The spongy hard thing sounds with stone sounds like the carbon filter.
I have one in my cat water bowl. if it what I am think it is anyway. It cleans some of the food and yuck out of the water. Brad changes them when he cleans the tanks weekly.
You might want to get some other fish besides algae eaters, granted they are beautiful, they can be put with other fish, just not very many, and not anymore bottom feeders. How big is your tank?
I'm not familiar with tha Blue stuff you're talking about, it sounds like the blue stuff Brad puts in his tank when His fish get what's called Ick which is a disease that can make them really sick but I'm not sure so I can ask him if I see him tonight when he gets home from work. Does it say not to use it on certain fish?
 
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i went to the pet store and pointed at the fish i wanted but he said i couldnt have them because i hadnt had my fish tank going for atleast 3 days. So he gave me the two bottles and told me what to do. At first when i put everything together the water went so cloudy you couldnt see anything. So i researched online and yeah the water has to go for about a week its safer that way and to clean the gravel. So i cleaned the gravel and did the process again.
I bought my tank off ebay. it is an 11 litre one
I have no idea in galleons because im not american. i tried on ww.convertit.com but i dunno doesnt work?
 

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it's ok Fwan, we'll figure this out together
it's hard in the beginning trust me I know. If I weren't for Brad I'd still be lost, getting fish that were bad for my tank and that would out grow the tank and things like that. I originally started with four goldfish that I "saved" from his Oscar. he was going to feed them to him and I couldn't bear to see them die so Brad bought me a tank for them. Unfortunately they grew so much that we had to take them back to the pet store. They got to be about 5 inches big each, and were still growing, but they were to big for the tank I had them in, so we took them back and they ended up in a Koi pond.
Oh yeah I'm not sure how big (in glns) an 11 litre tank is either but I'll ask Brad and he might know that also. (he's smarter then me! LOL!) I wasn't thinking about where you were when I asked you about how big your tank was! LOL! sorry! DUH! Like I said together we will get this figured out!!!!
 

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Oh How fun! We actually got a fish tank because they boyfriend thought that it would deter me away from wanting a cat. Boy was he wrong!?!?

Summer loves to sit on the arm of the couch and look at the fishies. I tried to get a pic of her like yours Traci, but she always moves after I grab the camera!

Right now I have 5 fish (my algae eater died last month, he was 2). I have a fantail, a black moor, and two comets in a 29 gallon tank.



 
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My boyfriend was the opposite he didnt want me to get a tank he preffered a cat! so that day he looked up in the yellow pages for the cat shelters. They didnt want to give me one because i look too young although i have my id card! So i was bawling so much my face was red from anger and my eyes were all red, my boyfriend bought a special newspaper i never seen before.
We sat at mc donalds ate and then he went through the whole kitty section calling everybody untill the last caller had a baby kitty the last kitty she had so we rushed, drove at 180 on the Freeway *autobahn* and we were there with in 25 minutes i was so glad to have my baby haha.


And yes we will get through this together with the tank
 

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That is so cute of him! My boyfriend never lived with any pets as he never had any growing up. It's been exactly one year today since we got Summer and he fell in love with her, barely looking at the other cats telling me "This one wants us to take her home" I of course looked at all of them. But when we came back around the shelter and she got up from the back of her cage again and started sticking her paws out to us once again...we knew she wanted us! She ignored everyone else who was there to adopt as they walked by. What a cat!
 

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guys are great aren't they? Brad didn't want pets when we got our house or so I thought but one night after I got home from work he came into the kitchen and told me to close my eyes and hold out my hands. I did and he put the smallest grey kitten in my hands. Twig was so small that you could fit him in one hand and still have room for part of another cat. LOL! Now he's almost 18 pounds!!!!!
and we have Isis, Luna and Rocket! All spoiled and all mine!!!!!! LOL!
 
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i used to always laugh at the black goldfish with their eyes sticking out
 

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I have my very own 3-5 gallon Betta Tank.
Here's a little info:
You should purchase Conditioner for your tank. Local pet stores will carry them. Let the conditioner lay in the tank for three to four weeks. This provides a bacteria for the tank, that is essessial for the fish. (I only know about freshwater) Betta's are betetr then goldfish for new hobbists, because Gpldfish are dirty, and you have to clean the tank once a week, while once a month is fine for a betta. Hope this helps! Have fun with it!
 
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Mines not a goldfish. *doesnt like goldfish unless they got long tails*
It might be a betta but they are small!!! and silvery and if you turn them on an angle they are a square with fins..
they look more like a diamond very sweet. they are already in the tank at the store with the algae eaters.

Well i just opened on my tank and the new thing spungy thing has got green on it already looks like its from a plant but i dont have any plants! its not mould though so i don tknow... might be from the gravel but i was sure i had cleaned it properly
 

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Yeah, supposedly some black moors have lots of eye problems because of this. I've had mine a year and a half with no problems whatsoever.

I got my comets "feeders" through a 2 for one special. I picked out two somewhat unique ones because I wanted them to be roughly the same size as the fantail I had (and still have). They are both white, one has a large orange spot on his head and the other is all white with a tiny orange spot on his tail. (They are more than likely siblings). I got the black moor and an algae eater the same day.

I grew up with "feeder" fish as a kid. We won some with that fish ping pong game at a carnival and my parents put them in a 50 gallon tank and they grew about a foot long each! YAY for the 25 cent goldfish!

 
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