My tropical tank

[staffordjonny]

just thought i would share a few pic's of my tank!

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[Bet]

Thats the setup I was thinking of changing to matey,are the neon tetra's easy to look after? your tank looks a similar size to mine,how often do you do water changes?

[staffordjonny]

hi bet,

Neons are very easy to look after once the tank is established and are incredibly hardy fish! my tank is 3foot long i think 180 liters. yours would me more then big enough! Some of the hardest fish i have kept are the most common and apparently easy fish the guppy. From what i am told is they have been genetically bread so many times they have little or no immunity and are very finkey and less hardy! I'm not sure if anyone else has had trouble with them!

[Big Dave]

Nice planted set up mate, have the Vallis and Swords just gone in or are they established...?
I have a Discus set up which is also planted lightly.Have you tried any Corys or Catfish for keeping the bottom of the tank clean ?

[staffordjonny]

hey mate up untill christmas eve all was well! doing some last minuet wrapping and noticed the seal on tank has gone so now its out the window, all plants etc where well established and doing well! discus are hard to keep so i belive how you found it?

[Big Dave]

discus are hard to keep so i belive how you found it?[/quote]

Hard work.....!!!!! 20% water change with aged water every 4 days and a diet of beefheart,tetra prima and tetra crisp flakes.....

[faz]

must admit ive never been able to keep neons for more than a week, not sure if there bein eaten or the pump is sucking them in, ive got 3 pictus catfish £30 they cost me and a simese fighter at the min, i bought a shrimp and it grew and ate evrythin i had over £300's wrth

[aiming430]

pictus cats for £30.... bloody hell, they saw you coming mate

[Grim REAPER]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Nice planted set up mate, have the Vallis and Swords just gone in or are they established...?
I have a Discus set up which is also planted lightly.Have you tried any Corys or Catfish for keeping the bottom of the tank clean ?

Any piccies dave? would be nice to see your tank,i keep discus in a comms set up,and never had much probs with em,old age apart that is

[faz]

Originally Posted by aiming430

pictus cats for £30.... bloody hell, they saw you coming mate

3 of em £10 each i know there little xpensive but the colours on them are amazin

[aiming430]

lol, didnt read it properly at all , read it as £30 each
a tenner a pop isnt too bad....

i had one with my green terror a while back but he jumped out the tank and never recovered, shame really was a nice little fish

[faz]

ive got a big corner tank with mirror effect on the flat sides, lol watch them go ape sh it every time they see there selves lol

[jonjo]

Originally Posted by staffordjonny

hi bet,

Neons are very easy to look after once the tank is established and are incredibly hardy fish! my tank is 3foot long i think 180 liters. yours would me more then big enough! Some of the hardest fish i have kept are the most common and apparently easy fish the guppy. From what i am told is they have been genetically bread so many times they have little or no immunity and are very finkey and less hardy! I'm not sure if anyone else has had trouble with them!

guppys are easy to look after in an established tank. The only thing is that they breeed like crazy. I had about 20 in my tank 2 month later there where hundreds, had to take them to local fish show to get rid of them.

[Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by faz

ive got a big corner tank with mirror effect on the flat sides, lol watch them go ape sh it every time they see there selves lol

Would have thought that situation would have the said fish in a constant state of stress and not a very good example of fishkeeping,only my opinion mind its your set up and your money thats needed to replace the fish when they finally go belly up

[faz]

they been ok so far, they were in same sort of tank when i got em from pets at home, cant do em to much harm not with all the things u have to go through just to buy fish from em, there well keen on tank conditions