Hi all, I'm Jenn. My husband and I joined the forum last week. We're in our early 30's and live in Florida. I was playing around on my smart phone and saw this forum had an app and decided to jump on my laptop, sign on, and get a better view. It's great!
I'll make this short and sweet, because I have a three-year-old who's potty training...well, let's save that for a different forum. If he pees in the fish tank, I'll post about it here.
We have three tanks: A tall 15 gallon, housing one rather large, territorial golden (?) gourami and last night, I added three bloodfin tetras. Originally, I kept two long-fin black skirt tetras in with the gourami (added one, but he died within a week but we moved them.) Oh, there's a good sized pleco in there, too. That tank is in my son's room, which is quiet most of the day.
After a couple months, I wanted a small tank of my own in my bedroom for ambiance. I slowly, but not slow enough, stocked it with four guppies and two platys. It's a 14 gallon BioCube I got for an awesome price at PetSmart.
I fell in love with these fish! The wag platys were so cute, and I loved watching the guppies dart all over the place. I knew I wanted more, and they looked like they needed more swimming space, so I bought a 36 gallon Bow Front. We moved these guys over, doing water changes daily, within a week.
We took the two black-skirt tetras and put them in the BioCube with a new, bigger guy who doesn't have such a long skirt, looks the same though, and they are having a blast. Last night, I added two small lamp eye tetras. They're not schooling with the others yet. They seem a bit in shock.
Since Mr. Big Boss gourami and the pleco were alone, I added three blood-fin tetras. So far, so good as of this morning.
Yesterday, I got a phone call from my husband that one of the yellow guppies died. He was really skinny, I had noticed previously, and didn't take the transition too well.
When the guppies and platys moved to the 36 gallon, the platys (with the addition of two mickey-mouse wag platys) didn't seem to take the transition as well. They're not as lively, and they sit at the bottom of the tank a lot. When it's feeding time, they come out and swim around for food, but most of the time they stick together up in the corner or sitting on the gravel. Now I'm concerned that one of the mickeys has ick! Last night I noticed its tail and fins have that salted look. Now, I've never dealt with ick, so I can't be for sure, but none of the others are showing symptoms. I may have to quarantine it, or bring it up to the pet shop so they can tell me for sure. I DON'T want to lose a whole tank
Now, I was wondering how you all get such wonderful photos of your aquarium? Are you using professional equipment, regular digital cameras, or something else altogether? I can't get a decent shot of anyone because it comes out blurry and with the tank reflection.
Alright, now that's a mouthful of information. Feel free to comment, scold, help and give advice as you wish (but be nice to this noob.... )
Thanks!
Jenn.S.