jessipanda
Aquarium Advice Freak
First, the tanks and fish:
-10g with 1 guppy & a juvie BN pleco
-55g with 10 cardinals, 5 neons, & a farlowella; as well as 3 jungle val and a banana
-Both also have driftwood
-Parameters for both are 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrites, less than 20ppm nitrates, ph of 6.8, 78°F
Originally, we just had the 10g with 5 neons, 1 guppy, & 1 juvie BN pleco. We got the 55g set up and have had 10 cardinals & a farlowella in it for a bit now. It's fully cycled and the cardinals look great, so we decided yesterday to move the inhabitants of the 10g to the 55g, with the exception of the BN (for now to let the farlowella become more comfy without competition). The neons are doing great. They started schooling with the cardinals straight away and have seemed very happy to have more space.
The problem is my 7 year old daughter's guppy, Bubbles. She named him Bubbles because of his obsession with the air bubbles that come from the air pump. In the 10g, the bubbles build up under the platform, then release every so often. So he didn't see them all the time. In the 55g, there is a bubble wall all along the 4ft back. So when Bubbles went into the 55g yesterday, he was in bubble heaven...and might have ended up in actual heaven if we didn't move him back to the 10g. He is so obsessed with the air bubbles that for the 2 hours he was in the 55g, he continuously played with and chased them. After 1 hour, he looked exhausted so I lowered the level of air being pumped into it in hopes he would calm down after awhile. Nope! Another hour later he was looking worse and STILL chasing bubbles.... So we moved him back to the 10g.
I want him out of my 10g so that it can be used as a QT/HT. I can't get rid of him because my daughter picked him out specifically 9 months ago. He is her fish.
So I'm looking for ideas that will help me move him to the 55g without it killing him. I don't want to remove the bubble wall either. We were planning on getting him some girl guppies anyways...do you think this would help to remove his focus on the bubbles or would he still wear himself out by redirecting all that energy towards the girls?
If I can't safely move him, then I will end up having to purchase and cycle a new tank to act as my QT.
Thanks in advance for any advice. Constructive criticism is welcome!
-10g with 1 guppy & a juvie BN pleco
-55g with 10 cardinals, 5 neons, & a farlowella; as well as 3 jungle val and a banana
-Both also have driftwood
-Parameters for both are 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrites, less than 20ppm nitrates, ph of 6.8, 78°F
Originally, we just had the 10g with 5 neons, 1 guppy, & 1 juvie BN pleco. We got the 55g set up and have had 10 cardinals & a farlowella in it for a bit now. It's fully cycled and the cardinals look great, so we decided yesterday to move the inhabitants of the 10g to the 55g, with the exception of the BN (for now to let the farlowella become more comfy without competition). The neons are doing great. They started schooling with the cardinals straight away and have seemed very happy to have more space.
The problem is my 7 year old daughter's guppy, Bubbles. She named him Bubbles because of his obsession with the air bubbles that come from the air pump. In the 10g, the bubbles build up under the platform, then release every so often. So he didn't see them all the time. In the 55g, there is a bubble wall all along the 4ft back. So when Bubbles went into the 55g yesterday, he was in bubble heaven...and might have ended up in actual heaven if we didn't move him back to the 10g. He is so obsessed with the air bubbles that for the 2 hours he was in the 55g, he continuously played with and chased them. After 1 hour, he looked exhausted so I lowered the level of air being pumped into it in hopes he would calm down after awhile. Nope! Another hour later he was looking worse and STILL chasing bubbles.... So we moved him back to the 10g.
I want him out of my 10g so that it can be used as a QT/HT. I can't get rid of him because my daughter picked him out specifically 9 months ago. He is her fish.
So I'm looking for ideas that will help me move him to the 55g without it killing him. I don't want to remove the bubble wall either. We were planning on getting him some girl guppies anyways...do you think this would help to remove his focus on the bubbles or would he still wear himself out by redirecting all that energy towards the girls?
If I can't safely move him, then I will end up having to purchase and cycle a new tank to act as my QT.
Thanks in advance for any advice. Constructive criticism is welcome!
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Personally I recommend checking out double tank stands from Drs. Foster and Smith website... Lets you stack two of a kind of tank on one stand and they're cheap and relatively attractive. I have one for ten gallons and one for 20's... a double 10 gallon stand would fix your problem fast!
