Hi everyone!

[Fishies86]

Hello! I'm new here (obviously )
My fiancé and I have wanted fish for a while and decided to get a tank at Christmas. We are now completely and utterly hooked we could do with lots of advice now though, and this site is fantastic!
Looking forward to many posts!

 

[Lawngnome]

Welcome, your going to love it here. A lot of knowledge on this site.

 

[neilanh]

Welcome to AA!

 

[butterfly_tm666]

Welcome to the forum 'Tis my second day in hither... You might find ntroductory post under the 'Dia dhuit from Eire' thread
On next Saturn's day I am introducing first fish

With my best wishes
Tomasz

 

[melosu58]

Welcome aboard.

 

[Fishies86]

Aw! How exciting! What fish are you adding? We've got seven fish at the moment, but added them before learning about cycling. Oops :/ looking forward to talking to everyone on here
Thanks for replying Tomasz? That's Polish isn't it?
Is this your first tank or have you had them before?
Sasha

 

[Peggaweng]

Welcome .... And good luck

 

[butterfly_tm666]

Nu da privet Alexandr I hope I have not mistaken the diminitions Yup 'tis polish version of ye Irish Tomas And yup I am Polish...
Welll.. I have not forgotten about cycling while it is not my first tank at all but first in last 10 yrs...
On satturday my wife and I are going tointroduce at first:
Ancistrus temminckii, the Bristlenose pleco with care, maintenance requirements and breeding information for your tropical fish

Then week later, while we have already ordered them:
Fairy Cichlid, Neolamprologus brichardi Profile, with care, maintenance requirements and breeding information for your tropical fish - family of 9

and

Discus Cichlid Profile, with care, maintenance requirements and breeding information for your tropical fish - after 2 days

As you can notice there hardly is an overlap in pH and dH parameters. However successful keeping of both is possible (however tricky) as I have done this before. I shall have to replace 1/3rd of water in the tank with distilled water than reduce acidity by 0.7 in two days (0.35 per day

With my best wishes
Tomasz & Barbara

 

[Fishies86]

Dzien dobry (hope I spelt that right ) I don't know what 'nu da privet' means :/
And I'm just Sasha I would be Alexandra tho, not Alexander.
Liking the sound of your fish! Hope you'll be putting up lots if pictures.
Sasha

 

[Fishies86]

You don't by any chance know about blue tetras 'do' you?

 

[Fishies86]

If anyone knows about blue tetras, would you mind checking out my thread called 'tetras with lumpy bellies'.
Lots of people posting here, but none on that thread.
Cheers! Sasha

 

[butterfly_tm666]

No - unfortunately I am rather a cichlid person I however find tetras charming. If you plan angel fish I could advise you something too


With my best wishes
Tomasz

 

[Fishies86]

If I could fit angels or cichlids in a 10 gallon tank with five tetras and two corydoras without them eating anyone I would

 

[butterfly_tm666]

Hmm.. by blue tetra you mean: Cochu's blue tetra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ?
In most cases it is more beneficial to use latin names aside from the common ones in order to avoid ambiguation. Yes I know something about those ;>
They need a soft water with kH @ max 15 so it is better to purchase some kH and gH tests at your suppliers.
They prefer more acidic water so pH around 6.5 - 7.0 where 7.0 is alkaline.
In their natural habitat there might be plenty of tanine (released by trees' roots) in the water. As they come from Amazon rriver basin - I know a lot about there It does not have to be a specific genus though Behaviourally I do not know as for keeping conditions sure... ask

 

[butterfly_tm666]

oh to keep pH on a lower level than 7.0 you mith need to purchase another tests (pH) and pH down drops which contain amongst others phosphorous.
I recently invested in 25 6 in one tests. The kH level is as far as I remember responsibble for stability of pH. So in general is hard to decrease pH of highly mineralised (hard) water. 6.5pH should not make other - alkaline (7.0) fish very unhappy. In such an application an external - fluvial filtration might be easier to set-up

Cheers
Tomasz
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edit:
Oh.. 'Twas on tetras, while they according to what I found, originate in Amazon river basin. And I actually am quite familiar with habitat there Ask then while I now about reproding it and finding a compromise between amazon and tanganyika lake in one tank which is going to disqualify few specimen but would allow me for others ;>

 

[butterfly_tm666]

If I could fit angels or cichlids in a 10 gallon tank with five tetras and two corydoras without them eating anyone I would

Well - you have a tank I had when I was 14 then Not certain about the coexistence of angel fish with tetras but with danios it was okay.
Those days I had in my 10 gal tank:
Siamese fighting fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 male
Angelfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 not sure of its orientation but was a water snail killer
Neolamprologus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - a couple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus_(fish) - two of them
Piel - 2 of them

few danios; dwarf frogs and

one Zbrojnik niebieski .

Everything was living in a perfect harmony. Those days I did not know about many parameters of water but chlorine and pH and I was picking the water from a natural forest spring not from the tap and was fully changing water fortnightly. It might explain the success, no deaths and reproduction - like all together 500 hundred of alive and not eaten progeny of brichardiis and discus fish

With my best wishes
-

 

[mgamer20o0]

Welcome to AA.