Newbie here

[DesertFish]

Hello all, I'm definitely an aquarium newbie. Been lurking for awhile and finally decided to register. Looks like a lot of good info and knowledgable people here.

Last week after months of procrastinating, I finally convinced my wife to get an aquarium. After a lot of reading and researching, we decided to buy a 56 gallon Marineland tank. It has been running for only 4 days. Sparsely populated for now until it gets cycled. For now there are 5 Zebra Danios, which look like tiny minnows in this big tank!

Anyway, off to post some ??'s!

 

[meegosh]

Looks like a good start! Keep up on your water changes while you are cycling since you have fish in there.

 

[cmor1701d]

Yes, please start daily 10% water changes and check your ammonia level to make sure it is ZERO (same for Nitrites).
After the tank is cycled you can cut back on the PWCs.

And

 

[melosu58]

Welcome aboard.

 

[BigJim]

Welcome. Your tank looks nice.

 

[mellawson]

Welcome!

 

[mommytron]

Welcome to AA! +1 for daily water changes! keep them fishies happy

 

[DesertFish]

Glad to be here guys

I've been doing about 20% water changes daily since I added the Danios, so far Ammonia levels haven't budged and are still registering at zero. I'm figuring it'll take a while to cycle the tank with such little fishes but I'll definitely keep on top of it. One of the Danios (the smallest one and I think he was not healthy to begin with) I bought died on the second night but all the other 5 seem to be doing great so far. They came from PetSmart which probably wan't the best place to get them but....

 

[mgamer20o0]

Welcome to AA.