Tank advice?

"Daniel Morrow" wrote in message
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Bottom posted.


"Deborah J. Brown" wrote in message
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Hi all,

(waves at those I know from the goldfish group)

I have two tanks, a 30 gall with one 4" (2" of which is tail!) fantail
goldfish. It's healthy, still not cycled but I'm working on that with
Stability and hope that it'll get there. Sooner or later.

The second is a 10 gal that had started as the goldfish tank (long
story, not important now) but which is now a properly cycled (I test
regularly, it's good.) tank.

I made a mistake however and bought the first set of fish from a LFS
that I'm beginning to really distrust as far as their fish go. All the
fish I've lost so far have been from there and while some of the
losses were due to New Tank Syndrome, not all were.

It currently has two sunset platys who appear healthy although there
was a brief case of ich that I treated and which went away properly as
far as I can tell. I'm also almost certain the ich got in from the
first set, not this, but not absolutely. (FWIW, the LFS where I got
the platies and which I visited not long after showed no signs of
troubles with the tank.)

In any case, I plan on waiting at least two to three weeks before
getting any more tropicals to make certain the two left aren't sick.
Before I do, could I get some advice on about how many fish of what
size would be acceptable for a 10 gallon with two sunset platies in it
already? I like danios, platys, tetras (neon, but I know they can be
fragile), mollies and guppies. No great fondess for big or oddly
shaped fish.

Also, I'm currently doing the water exchange at about two weeks for a
25% change. I get a lot of the brown algae on the substrate, though,
so I'm considering making the change once a week. About how much of a
change would be reasonable under those circumstances?

Thanks in advance!

Deb


Hopefully netmax will speak up about how many small fish you can keep
in
your 10 gallon (don't worry though - I am sure you will be pleased with
the
answer), You should be able to keep a good reasonable amount/number.
You can
split 20 percent into the number of water changes you make for the same
interval or you can do any reasonable volume of water change as
frequently
as every 1 or 2 days (the one major worry about changing water often is
osmotic shock I think, which means you might cause an imbalance of
water
contents as tap water contains a lot of minerals, elements,
characteristics
like ph, etc which can buildup in tanks and the fish's systems come to
expect those characteristics, etc., and there is more to it than that
as I
can't quite remember it and you don't really need to know it either so
don't
worry - just don't water change TOO MUCH.) and the more water changed
generally the more your fish will appreciate you, just don't over do
it.
Good luck and later!.


Daniel, you leave me breathless ;~)
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Bottom posted.

Daniel, you leave me breathless ;~)
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www.NetMax.tk



;-)

snippity Snip

Thanks to all for the advice. I'll explore the possibilities in a few
weeks, when I'm certain I don't have sick fish still.

So far, so good, btw. The two remaining platies are acting healthy and
I'm /almost/ certain the one is hiding because the other is picking on
her. Not terribly, no injuries, just chasing around the tank. I'm
hoping I don't have to separate her out because I'm not sure it would
help anything. *sigh*

Oh, as regards the tropical tank's cycle. It's good and solid at this
point. All the tests come out where they're supposed to and I'm just
going to go with a once a week small cleaning to make sure the algae
stays down a bit. Or maybe get an algae eater? I've heard they can be
problematical, if the algae level isn't high enough. Can one of the
littler ones work?

Deborah