I got a goldfish recently, and I use a 5 gallon. (He's really small and I saved him from a carnival) Its filtered. To clean, take out half the water, put in conditioner according to size, and wipe of the items inside.
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Who here has fish??
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we have a 13 gallon tank, it is a jewel make and we have had no problems, the 'jewel' extra parts are so easy to get hold of too. ours came with a jewel filter and heater and a flourescent light in the hood.
we have had a mixture of fish, at the moment we have cardinals, tetras, tiger barbs, guppies and platties. we found that it wasnt a good idea to buy guppies for a newly set up tank, all of our originals died and we also found that platties breed.....LOTS lol, we ended up having to give away about 20 platties from the 2 we started off with lol
we also bought a small crab at one point but i dont recommed them since they are great escape artists.....hence i no longer have one lol
hope this helps
hunny
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we have had a mixture of fish, at the moment we have cardinals, tetras, tiger barbs, guppies and platties. we found that it wasnt a good idea to buy guppies for a newly set up tank, all of our originals died and we also found that platties breed.....LOTS lol, we ended up having to give away about 20 platties from the 2 we started off with lol
we also bought a small crab at one point but i dont recommed them since they are great escape artists.....hence i no longer have one lol
hope this helps
hunny
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I have had a 20 gallon, tropical fish tank since 1983. I was planning to shutdown the aquarium after all the fish died, but then I got Charlotte and she loves to watch them!! I cannot break her heart or the entertainment that it provides.
My tank keeps on going green with in two weeks, well thats about when youre suppoed to clean it anyway, but i couldnt find my thing to take the green stuff off the glass so i use a toothbrush. Later on in the year i will upgrade my tank, or in the new house because i find my filter very crappy.
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lol finnegan loves to watch merlin but shadow doesnt like him at all!!! poor fishy... lol
i've got a very depressed looking goldfish called Hero. her friend leander died recently. i think she needs some company to cheer her up.
Sounds like you have an algae problem. You may want to invest in an algae eater (that's a fish that kind of resembles a cat fish but they eat algae even off the sides of the tank) or snails. My sister gave me ONE snail back in 1996 or 1997 and I NOW have many, many more generations of snails!!
We have a ten gallon tank and a twenty gallon tank. The ten gallon hosts 2 adult black mollies, who others died, and about 12 baby mollies. Baby fish are so cute! That tank has probably about 8 live plants and a million snails. The 20 gallon tank has two guppies, an algae eater, a catfish, a red wag platy, a clear platy, and about 6 zebra danios. The red and clear platy's made babies- of which there are five and they are cute, cute. There are two more tiny baby platy's that I've seen hiding in the plants. That tank as lots of live plants and a million snails. We've had these tanks for a few months now and have never needed to clean them. The snails, plecto, and catfish keep the tanks spotless. The tanks also have special light bulbs which are supposed to help the plants grow and a heater and thermometer.
I have 2 goldfish, I would take a picture of them and the tank, but it a little dirty at the moment, I've not cleaned it yet
. But I have been through 2 tanks, as my girl fishy - Jai Jai, got very very big, they are both black moore fish. I think I have a 30 litre tanks, and a filter thats very good, the brand it is Aqua One. Nero loves it though, because he is still little and he LOVES the space
lol, i have the same problem as you miss charlotte,,,,i have tons of generations of snails....you can hardly see thru the glass because of them all.....i get rid of them when i clean the tank but there is always one that manages to hide in the gravel then the following week i have a tank full again
I'm not sure if you can do this where you are from...
Rather than get rid of your snails, most pet places that sell fish will buy them from you.
When the number of snails was countable, I used to take out the snails as not to accidently syphon them out while cleaning the tank. I was sad one time when I had to treat the tank with medicine because the fish were sick. It killed all of snails. Well, actually ONE snail lived and reproduced and so on. After a while, I didn't care if the snails suctioned out with the syphon. I know that sounds mean but those snails need a spay/neuter program!!
I didn't realize that a fish store would want snails. I've got plenty!! And I also wonder if they'd want some of my banana plant. It's grown soooooooo much that it keeps taking over the tank despite prunings!!
It really depends on the type of snail. If you find one that will take common pond snails (which is what usually hitchhikes in on plants) let me know! Pond snails can reproduce hermaphroditically, so you only need ONE to end up with a population explosion. I got rid of them at one point by putting in a trio of clown loaches. I never saw another snail, until the clown loaches unfortunately succumbed (along with everything else in the tankOriginally Posted by ash_bct
I'm not sure if you can do this where you are from...
Rather than get rid of your snails, most pet places that sell fish will buy them from you.Its something worth looking into!
OTOH, if the fish/pet shop is trying to feed FW puffers they might indeed take your snails off your hands.
i've got a divided tank at school w/2 bettas in it, 1 blue, 1 red. i'll have to take a pic & post it soon. i take them home in the summer & long breaks, but Pixel's not interested...Cable thought they were pretty neat, tho! she keeps looking for them in the home tank, but they're here at school right now!
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lol poor cable misses her friends! thats ok Finnegan says she can look at ours hehe
yeah i used to be like you, i used to feel guilty when we cleaned the tank out and the snails were washed down the sink...............now i really dont give a toss....they are soooooooo annoyin....they totally cover the glass on my tank so you can hardly see the fish!
what was that thing you bought that killed them all?????? lol I NEED SOME lol
what was that thing you bought that killed them all?????? lol I NEED SOME lol
I think I used [font=Arial,Helvetica]erythromycin to treat the tank. It's been almost 10 years so I'm not 100% sure. All I know is I treated for hole-in-the-head and ick.
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I don't have fish, but your pictures are great!!
