Our Cichlids - their short tragic history

also you may want to syphon off 2 gals of water from the 10 to help the 25
"Damaclese" wrote in message
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ok first off ken you cant say you have never lost a fish when you were a
n00b new to the hobby so relax ive done the same thing and i wait and
run
my tank for about 1 month doing regular water changes and no fish in it.
Buddy relax people make mistakes and dont go preaching about life to me
thanks i shot my first deer when i was 5 BECAUSE WE NEEDED FOOD!

at any rate i jumped from a 15g to a 55g then a big jump up to 155g the
best
things i can say is 1 - run your tank for 2 weeks with just water in it
takes care of impurities and residues that may be in tanks filter housings
pre packaged filter media and the like

2 - buy some feeder or target fish the urinate alot and kick in a cycle
buy
a pleco at this time i had one last me through alot of hardships and there
near to indestructible as you can get.. dropped mine on floor abandoned in
bottom of a tank when i moved for about 5 days in 2 inches of water and
gravell and had survived through several tank moves..
let these guys get in there and die off .there not meant to last long and
are very baddly inbread..yes frank these guys are expendible like it or
lump
it... after a week or 2 check levels maybe add a plant or 2 .. i also
noticed you do not have an air pump these can be fish savers go get one
please you never know when more o2 will help out a spike or problem
3- test levels every day before doing an inital population dont do more
than
4-6 fish cause you never know it took 3 tries to get my 155 gallon going
and
i have had a hell of a time with it for the first year.. and most of all
listen to the info your getting I MAY NOT BE THE BEST ADVICE alot of
people
on here have a lot more experience than i do realize this and learn from
it
and use your own common sense and i think you will do fine

"Amateur" wrote in message
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"Ken Thomas" wrote in message
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I stand by what I said. You knew about cycling. You know that fish
can die during the break-in period of the tank. And you decided to
buy more fish and take a chance. This is a fact: You took a chance
with a life. That's stupid. You couldn't wait a few days to make
sure things were OK before buying more fish. That's impulsive. Not
something an adult does - especially when you're dealing with
something that is alive. I don't care if no one agrees with me.
People here feel like this is some kind of community and we have to
make everyone feel good. Well, I'll risk hurting your feelings. You
say you're an adult, than handle it. And maybe, just maybe, next time
you'll think twice about being flip with something as precious as a
fish.


Fish are very precious. And tasty too. I had the pleasure of eating some
of the
cichlids we love so much while visiting Lake Tanganyika. The
Boulengerochromis,
hands down had to be the best fish I ever tasted.
Amateur