My first fish

[miskairal]

Yeehaa!
After 6 months of reading, preparation and setting up I got my first 2
fish today. Two little tank bred ocellaris clowns about 4 months of age
in a 6 foot tank. I spent an hour acclimatting them and then fed them an
hour or two later and they are now asleep with lights out and full
bellies. They seemed quite settled and calm but have only "checked out"
a small portion of the tank. I spent money on a feed ring b/c I thought
two tiny fish would have trouble finding the food but that was a waste
of $8 AUS as they just gobbled everything in sight once it floated down.

Now I can't wait until lights on in the morning.

And I thought freshwater fish keeping was addictive!

[Linspire User]

congrads... new parent in the group..:)

miskairal wrote:
> Yeehaa!
> After 6 months of reading, preparation and setting up I got my first 2
> fish today. Two little tank bred ocellaris clowns about 4 months of age
> in a 6 foot tank. I spent an hour acclimatting them and then fed them an
> hour or two later and they are now asleep with lights out and full
> bellies. They seemed quite settled and calm but have only "checked out"
> a small portion of the tank. I spent money on a feed ring b/c I thought
> two tiny fish would have trouble finding the food but that was a waste
> of $8 AUS as they just gobbled everything in sight once it floated down.
>
> Now I can't wait until lights on in the morning.
>
> And I thought freshwater fish keeping was addictive!

[TekCat]

Congrats, I am a few weeks behind you. My 55Gallon tank has only 10 snails.
Today I put in 15 more, and 5 hermits. So, in a couple of weeks (if
everything goes okay) I plan to get my first fish there. Probably "Nemo"
too :)

Again, Congrats!


"miskairal" <mehiding@Oz> wrote in message
u...
> Yeehaa!
> After 6 months of reading, preparation and setting up I got my first 2
> fish today. Two little tank bred ocellaris clowns about 4 months of age in
> a 6 foot tank. I spent an hour acclimatting them and then fed them an hour
> or two later and they are now asleep with lights out and full bellies.
> They seemed quite settled and calm but have only "checked out" a small
> portion of the tank. I spent money on a feed ring b/c I thought two tiny
> fish would have trouble finding the food but that was a waste of $8 AUS as
> they just gobbled everything in sight once it floated down.
>
> Now I can't wait until lights on in the morning.
>
> And I thought freshwater fish keeping was addictive!

[miskairal]

TekCat wrote:
> Congrats, I am a few weeks behind you. My 55Gallon tank has only 10 snails.
> Today I put in 15 more, and 5 hermits. So, in a couple of weeks (if
> everything goes okay) I plan to get my first fish there. Probably "Nemo"
> too :)
>
> Again, Congrats!
>
>
> "miskairal" <mehiding@Oz> wrote in message
> u...
>
>>Yeehaa!
>>After 6 months of reading, preparation and setting up I got my first 2
>>fish today. Two little tank bred ocellaris clowns about 4 months of age in
>>a 6 foot tank. I spent an hour acclimatting them and then fed them an hour
>>or two later and they are now asleep with lights out and full bellies.
>>They seemed quite settled and calm but have only "checked out" a small
>>portion of the tank. I spent money on a feed ring b/c I thought two tiny
>>fish would have trouble finding the food but that was a waste of $8 AUS as
>>they just gobbled everything in sight once it floated down.
>>
>>Now I can't wait until lights on in the morning.
>>
>>And I thought freshwater fish keeping was addictive!
>
>
>
Thanks guys.

TekCat, I went with the clowns first up b/c they are tougher than most
fish and these ones are tank bred. I have nothing else in there yet as
the shop I purchase from has it's main supplier in the middle of moving
and there has been a very limited stock for the last 2 months. That shop
is 2 1/2 hours away and is the nearest to here. I'm going to email him
the rest of everything I want and then let him know when I will next be
down and he will try to have it for me.

I could really have done with some snails as I have a hair algae problem
that I spent about 8 hours on yesterday. My phosphates and Nitrates are
zero as is the ammonia and nitrites so the only other cause he suggested
would be the gunk left in the sand from the live rock curing.

My main problem now is I'm sort of all "read" (red) out. I just can't
read another thing for a few weeks and I'm a slow learner.

Good luck when you get yours.

Cheerio

[bct]

Congrats!
Im buying a tank soon and cant wait to start.. i cant tell it wil be an
expensive hobby :P


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[TekCat]

My tank is not there yet. But what most tell me that I am next on the hair
algea list :). I plan to plumb in refugim where macro algea will be
competing for nutrions with all other nuisance algea. I just hope it wins
:)
Good luck with your battle.




> TekCat, I went with the clowns first up b/c they are tougher than most
> fish and these ones are tank bred. I have nothing else in there yet as the
> shop I purchase from has it's main supplier in the middle of moving and
> there has been a very limited stock for the last 2 months. That shop is 2
> 1/2 hours away and is the nearest to here. I'm going to email him the rest
> of everything I want and then let him know when I will next be down and he
> will try to have it for me.
>
> I could really have done with some snails as I have a hair algae problem
> that I spent about 8 hours on yesterday. My phosphates and Nitrates are
> zero as is the ammonia and nitrites so the only other cause he suggested
> would be the gunk left in the sand from the live rock curing.
>
> My main problem now is I'm sort of all "read" (red) out. I just can't read
> another thing for a few weeks and I'm a slow learner.
>
> Good luck when you get yours.
>
> Cheerio

[miskairal]

bct wrote:
> Congrats!
> Im buying a tank soon and cant wait to start.. i cant tell it wil be an
> expensive hobby :P
>
>
Oooh yeah!
I've spent the best part of $3000 Australian so far. I bought the tank
second hand at ebay for freshwater but a friend suggested using it for
sal****er and there it began :)

Cheers