TheDirector
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- May 23, 2012
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Hey everyone, I'm new here but I will do my best to follow the directions.
1. The fish is a Sunburst Wag Platy - I have a video link here that can show you how it is behaving. Click Here
2. I would love to give exact numbers but I don't have them, I took some tank water to petsmart and they 'checked' it with a color stick. They told me that the water was neutral on the low side. Everything else was in 'good shape'. The girl commented on how good the water was (whatever that means). Temp is 76 deg.
3. 55g aquarium has been setup for a month now (ish).
4. I'm sorry I don't know the answer to this question. The tank is in our office and was setup prior to me seeing it. I was told to stock the tank so I have placed a water conditioner and a stress coat (or something like that) to it initially. Since then I have added some live plants from PetSmart, 6 Sunburst Wag Platy's, 5 Bloodfin Tetras, a Poweder Blue Guarami, and another Dwarf Gaurami. They were spaced days appart, each new purchase was.
5. 13 fish See above and the video
6. I haven't done any of these as the tank is newish.
7. The fish was in the first batch of 6 platys I added to the tank. I aclimated them by floating the bag in the tank and adding some of the tank water to the tank every 15 minutes until I had done that like 4 times.
8. haven't added anything new. A time release food pyramid was added over the weekend and when we came back on monday the 1 platy was acting the way it is now.
9. We have been feeding them the tetra flakes, except for this past weekend when we gave them the time release food pyramid thing.
As i stated in #1, there is a video where you can see the fish's behavior. Please ask any additional questions you need to and I will answer quickly. Thank you for your time and help
BTW - the the fish in question is the one hanging out at the top of the tank. Thats all it does . . . just float around up there. If it does swim its quick and erratic, then it goes back up to the top.
Justin
1. The fish is a Sunburst Wag Platy - I have a video link here that can show you how it is behaving. Click Here
2. I would love to give exact numbers but I don't have them, I took some tank water to petsmart and they 'checked' it with a color stick. They told me that the water was neutral on the low side. Everything else was in 'good shape'. The girl commented on how good the water was (whatever that means). Temp is 76 deg.
3. 55g aquarium has been setup for a month now (ish).
4. I'm sorry I don't know the answer to this question. The tank is in our office and was setup prior to me seeing it. I was told to stock the tank so I have placed a water conditioner and a stress coat (or something like that) to it initially. Since then I have added some live plants from PetSmart, 6 Sunburst Wag Platy's, 5 Bloodfin Tetras, a Poweder Blue Guarami, and another Dwarf Gaurami. They were spaced days appart, each new purchase was.
5. 13 fish See above and the video
6. I haven't done any of these as the tank is newish.
7. The fish was in the first batch of 6 platys I added to the tank. I aclimated them by floating the bag in the tank and adding some of the tank water to the tank every 15 minutes until I had done that like 4 times.
8. haven't added anything new. A time release food pyramid was added over the weekend and when we came back on monday the 1 platy was acting the way it is now.
9. We have been feeding them the tetra flakes, except for this past weekend when we gave them the time release food pyramid thing.
As i stated in #1, there is a video where you can see the fish's behavior. Please ask any additional questions you need to and I will answer quickly. Thank you for your time and help
BTW - the the fish in question is the one hanging out at the top of the tank. Thats all it does . . . just float around up there. If it does swim its quick and erratic, then it goes back up to the top.
Justin