Tlome
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi there. I'm new to this forum and thrilled to have found it. I'm quite new to fish keeping so I hope you'll bear with me while I ask some perhaps silly questions.
I have an autistic son and he has an obsession with fish. As I am involved in dog rescue and have owned many small animals (of the mammal variety) I figured how hard can fish be. LOL at myself.
We started with a 10 gallon and 2 fancy goldfish. We learned that despite advice from local big boxes, 2 goldfish do NOT live in 10 gallons and 6 months of fish replacing later I decided that I should find another source of information.
Much research later I have two tanks.
7 gallon
- crowned betta
-flourescent lighting
- heat at 80
- small cave, couple fabric plants (betta loves the cave)
- filtered (gentle), heated 80 degrees
10 gallon
- crowned betta
- 4 female platties
- african dwarf frog
- filtered (gentle), heated 80 degrees
- incandescent lights (will be replacing with flourescent)
I do 50% water changes once a week and test using strips, except for amonia, which I use API liquid tests for (I realize the strips are less exact)
My betta in the 10 gallon likes to play chase the platties, but when the platties get bored and stop swimming away the betta leaves them alone. All seem to be happy and healthy.
I feed flakes 2 times a week, and frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms the rest of the days (with a small amount of blood worms or shrimp delivered to my frog daily as he does not swim for the flakes)
I feed about 1 cube of the prepackaged frozen between the two tanks and watch for leftovers to clean. They seem to eat all within 5-10 minutes.
My questions are as follows... is my stocking okay? Is my feeding okay? Is my temperature okay? etc. If there is anything in the above description that I should improve please feel free to give any advice you feel helpful.
Thanks so much.
I have an autistic son and he has an obsession with fish. As I am involved in dog rescue and have owned many small animals (of the mammal variety) I figured how hard can fish be. LOL at myself.
We started with a 10 gallon and 2 fancy goldfish. We learned that despite advice from local big boxes, 2 goldfish do NOT live in 10 gallons and 6 months of fish replacing later I decided that I should find another source of information.
Much research later I have two tanks.
7 gallon
- crowned betta
-flourescent lighting
- heat at 80
- small cave, couple fabric plants (betta loves the cave)
- filtered (gentle), heated 80 degrees
10 gallon
- crowned betta
- 4 female platties
- african dwarf frog
- filtered (gentle), heated 80 degrees
- incandescent lights (will be replacing with flourescent)
I do 50% water changes once a week and test using strips, except for amonia, which I use API liquid tests for (I realize the strips are less exact)
My betta in the 10 gallon likes to play chase the platties, but when the platties get bored and stop swimming away the betta leaves them alone. All seem to be happy and healthy.
I feed flakes 2 times a week, and frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms the rest of the days (with a small amount of blood worms or shrimp delivered to my frog daily as he does not swim for the flakes)
I feed about 1 cube of the prepackaged frozen between the two tanks and watch for leftovers to clean. They seem to eat all within 5-10 minutes.
My questions are as follows... is my stocking okay? Is my feeding okay? Is my temperature okay? etc. If there is anything in the above description that I should improve please feel free to give any advice you feel helpful.
Thanks so much.