question on feeding
I am a new aquarist as well and the one thing that frustrated me is that when I purchased the 5gal tank the sales rep. did not mention that I would require a larger tank if I wanted to purchase certain fish, well I knew all along I wanted cichlids, but was not informed that the tank size was no good… mind you I had no idea these little fish I seen in the pet actually grew bigger….
So I guess we all have to hit the little bumps in the roads on our journey to becoming good aquarist’s, but at least we are trying or we would not be here…
Lana
On Jul 2, 2008, bethmlucas@cox.net wrote:
It’s not your fault you didn’t know about the tank size. If you want to keep the goldies, a 50 gallon or so doesn’t have to cost that muchJ and it’s gorgeous with big goldfish in it…
From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Beth Lucas
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:58 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [UniQuaria] Re: question on feeding
Goldfish should not be in a 10 gallon, esp. babies that big alreadyJ Have you considered a 50 gallon?
From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of kellygrenke
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:33 PM
To:
Subject: [UniQuaria] Re: question on feeding
well I do have my ten gallon with goldfish and an algae eater in it..
I been looking to rehome my goldfish.. (They get big almost 3 inches
each now)…. my ten gallon has two power filters and my 1 gallon did
come with an airstone and air pump.. perhaps I should be using
ammolock, stress zyme and stress coat too… but I did manage to get
a live plant to start growing from an aponogeton bulb.. I would add
my mollies to my ten gallon tank but I read that they can’t be housed
togethor… I never actually used the ammock before so I don’t know
if it is good to add to such a small tank or not…
Kelly
— In UniQuaria@yahoogrou, “Lana and Troy Bollers”
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>
> Kelly,
> You will have to get a big tank soon as those molly’s will out grow
that tank quickly. Even if you could get a nice 30 gal tank, then you
could add a few more, but the Amm/Nit levels would be better kept
under control too…
>
> When I do my water changes I still feed my fish as normal. I change
out there water once per week (20-25%) I put one cap of aqua plus in
the day I change out the water, the following day I put a cap of the
aqua cycle. If you put them in at the same time, they will nutralize
one another and they wont work.
>
> If you can not get your levels down, you will want to do more
frequent water changes. You may even want to buy RO water and start
gradually changing out the old water… because your tank is so new
the levels can change rapidly… I know mine does and I have had my
tank three weeks now… we just have a 5 gal tank with two congo
tetra’s and one black neon tetra, and two algae eaters, we just
purchased them and one will eventually be moved to our larger tank…
>
> Wait about three weeks before obtaining an algae eater… so that
it will have something to eat…
>
> good luck with your molly’s and get the levels down…
>
>
> Lana Bollers
> PO Box 244
>
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>
> —– Original Message —–
> From: Kelly grenke
> To: UniQuaria@yahoogrou
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:06 AM
> Subject: [UniQuaria] question on feeding
>
>
> Hi everyone.. Is it better to under feed fish if you are cycling
a tank with fish? I have my one gallon aquarium with two mollies…
so far my parameters in there are as follows : ammonia : 8.0 ppm
nitrite : 0.25 ppm nitrate : 5.0 ppm any opinions would be greatly
appreciated.
>
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