Sarah E
Aquarium Advice Activist
So, when you quarantine yiur fish, how long do you do this, and do you keep them away from your ither fish?
Mollies get big and messy, I would skip mollies for this particular tank. They will also get big enough to eat small adult feeder guppies, so thats another reason I would skip them. Platys do fine with guppies, but will definitely eat fry if any end up in you display tank.I've been looking into all of this more, and read (beside being told here. ) that Corys catfish are good, but also that Platies and Mollies are good with guppies, (though this was fancy guppies, I'm sure it would apply to feeders also... or is that wrong? *blinks*)
I'm going to be switching my guppies when I get my new ones to my 20 gallon tank which is cycling (I took a test reading with the API master testing kit people here suggest and got a 7.6 PH level, 0.25 ppm Ammonia, 0ppm Nitrite and 5.0 ppm Nitrate level.) at the moment. When I switch them over, I'll have about 6-12 guppies in the 20 gallon tank, and maybe 1 snail... How many corys catfish/(if they are alright)Platies/Mollies can I also put in there?
I'm going to be using my 10 gallon for breeding my guppies, and will keep the fry in there.
You should go to the "getting started" section for fresh and brackish water and read about cycling. Most people here support fishless cycling, but you can do a fish-in cycle as well. Anyhow, there are some guides in there about cycling that will be helpful.Okay! Thank you very much!
So, cycling a tank takes up to a week, right? At what point, and what level of PH, Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate can I buy and add the corys and guppies to them? Thanks!