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§tudz wrote:
Christopher Lewis wrote:
My girlfriend bought me a 100 litre tank for my birthday a few weeks
ago. I filled it with gravel a few fake plants and water and left
the filter and heater running for a few days.

I then went to my local fish shop and bought some small fish
recommended by them to cycle the tank.

All OK so far right.

Then.... My mother boyfriend turns up at my house after 2 days of
the fish being in the tank with a bag with about another 15 fish in
it. They are gourami's, 2 or three different kinds of mollies, a
few red eyed tetra's (i think thats what they are called), some
tiger barbs, some sharks someting or others (cant remember and i
doubt they are real sharks).

So now i am doing a 20% water change every 2 days in an attempt to
keep the ammonia and nitrite levels down. Yesterday ammoina was
somewhere between 1 and 1.5 ppm so i did a 40% water change.

Nitrite is about 1.0 ppm at the moment. they have all been in there
2 weeks now and *seem* OK so far.

Is there anything else i should be doing?

Thanks Guys

Chris

p.s. I'm sure i'm going to enjoy this once i dont have to do water
changes every 2 days!!




You shouldn't be doing water changes yet? you have TOO many fish in
there to cycle to tank. It is best to not have fish in the tank to
cycle it. for at least a week, 3 or 4 days if you use nutrafin's
cycle.

find out what 'sharks' they are, if they are black red tailed shark or
rainbow sharks they will fight each other, if they are bala sharks
they will grow huge! 15"+. or if they are iridescent sharks they will
grow over 2 foot, lol.

did you gradually add the fish? or did you add them all at the same
time?

and as for doing water changes every 2 days?? why are you doing them
SO often, once every month or two weeks should be fine.

§tudz

I don't know studz, if I am not mistaken you state a lot of contradictions
to aquarium standards today. I am just pointing out to the original poster
to take any information with a grain (no pun intended!) of salt. Good luck
and later!