"Get guppies! They're easy! You just dump them in." I was told. And stupidly I believed it. A google search for the question of how much to feed them lead me on a long journey of "OH MY GOD I AM GOING TO KILL MY FISH". (I knew to use water conditioner to remove chlorine, that I needed a filter and a heater. And... That I needed to feed them.. And not much else. Because. You know. I took the advice of someone that I later found out feels it's perfectly acceptable to just buy new guppies every month or two. *cringe*
I've had them for a week now and no dead fish yet. I now know about cycling the tank. I have filter media from an established tank that is in the filter. I have live plants which apparently like to consume ammonia. I'm doing daily water tests and so far the ammonia is at zero. I dosed the aquarium with stress coat.
I also found out that apparently the pet store sold me a guppy with fin rot, which has improved in the past few days when I was trying to find out what it was. I'm trying to find out if I should dose the aquarium with antibiotics or not if the fin rot seems to be getting better? (All three of my fish are seeming better. When I first got them they were having a seriously hard time swimming in the current of the filter- now they play in it and explore the tank.
I'm seriously annoyed with myself for just taking the advice of this "fish person" without looking into things myself. My excuse is that my sister had an aquarium when she was growing up and did the same thing- swapped out fish whenever they died. I had no idea fish had a longer life expectancy.
Anyway.. I'm looking forward to learning everything I should have learned BEFORE I bought fish. :/
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I have a 10-long (I'm told it's called)
3 fancy male guppies
5 ghost shrimp
Aqueon Quietflow10
Small airstone w/ a pump
Small heater (keeps tank at 75)
Gravel at the bottom
Lilies, java fern and some tall grass-like plant that were grown in the tank before it had fish. (The tank was growing plants for a few months before we got fish.)
I've had them for a week now and no dead fish yet. I now know about cycling the tank. I have filter media from an established tank that is in the filter. I have live plants which apparently like to consume ammonia. I'm doing daily water tests and so far the ammonia is at zero. I dosed the aquarium with stress coat.
I also found out that apparently the pet store sold me a guppy with fin rot, which has improved in the past few days when I was trying to find out what it was. I'm trying to find out if I should dose the aquarium with antibiotics or not if the fin rot seems to be getting better? (All three of my fish are seeming better. When I first got them they were having a seriously hard time swimming in the current of the filter- now they play in it and explore the tank.
I'm seriously annoyed with myself for just taking the advice of this "fish person" without looking into things myself. My excuse is that my sister had an aquarium when she was growing up and did the same thing- swapped out fish whenever they died. I had no idea fish had a longer life expectancy.
Anyway.. I'm looking forward to learning everything I should have learned BEFORE I bought fish. :/
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I have a 10-long (I'm told it's called)
3 fancy male guppies
5 ghost shrimp
Aqueon Quietflow10
Small airstone w/ a pump
Small heater (keeps tank at 75)
Gravel at the bottom
Lilies, java fern and some tall grass-like plant that were grown in the tank before it had fish. (The tank was growing plants for a few months before we got fish.)
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