Your current Fish tank Setups!

DooMeR said:
Not much i could do really the guy at the local pet store gives her bad advice.

I only know a little my self and its just stuff i have read.

I think theres a misconception that gold fish are easy to keep and look after when they are not. They need just as much care and love as any other pet.

I was mad when she got the 2 other fish when i told her not too cause the tank was doing fine before then.

I have one question for you guys though a lot of pet stores have a lot of gold fish in a much smaller tanks then the one i have how do they get away with this.
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They're temporary tanks. And the fish are generally only very young. If aquatics shops have fish that get too big, they generally move them on to an aquatics store that has good holding facilities for older fish.

These shops often tend to be in garden centres and the like.
 
DooMeR said:
I have one question for you guys though a lot of pet stores have a lot of gold fish in a much smaller tanks then the one i have how do they get away with this.
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They are generally only in those tanks for a few weeks until someone buys them, so out-growing the tanks isn't an issue. Most shops have their tanks running as big joined up systems that share water with a massive centralised filtration unit that can cope with that many fish, plus probably do daily (or at least very frequent) water changes.
 
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Well i told her what you guys told me and she said the guy in the shop said she could have 8 in a tank that size :s The last sick fish died :( so only got one left.

He seems healthy though and active so i hope he survives

Will keep changing the water daily.
 
I don't know why shops give bad advice like that. If they run a LFS, they'res no way they dont know the basic care requirements of a goldfish!

It's obviously about money, but even that may backfire as you will not go back to a shop that deals out bad advice just to sell you a few extra quid worth of fish.

That's why I love my LFS. He is blinding. He's actually been voted South East's top shop for 3 years running in Practical Fishkeeping.

I saw him nearly rowing with someone once because he wouldnt sell him Cardinal Tetras.

He had just tested the blokes water and he had a nitrite level of 1.5ppm, and steadfastly refused until he saw perfect water.

A credit to his profession. Gets some real funky fish in too. Had an eel the other day that grows to nearly 3ft.
 
Going through a bit of a cleanup - ashamed to say I'd neglected the tank the last 6 months, particulary the gravel washes.



Plec is getting big!
 
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Doesn't look it :/ resorted my cabinet out and got all my extension leads down to two.

Now I'm an electrician and know it's 100% safe to daisy chain them together providing the total ampage doesn't exceed 2800w (approx) which it doesn't at a mere 300w (with heater on)
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My question is do you run more than one Extention lead and separate the items between the two incase one was to decide to fail? This seemed logical but my thoughts are if one failed and took my heater out of service my filter won't magically keep my fish alive and same in reverse.
 
Unicorn said:
Doesn't look it :/ resorted my cabinet out and got all my extension leads down to two.

Now I'm an electrician and know it's 100% safe to daisy chain them together providing the total ampage doesn't exceed 2800w (approx) which it doesn't at a mere 300w (with heater on)
But
My question is do you run more than one Extention lead and separate the items between the two incase one was to decide to fail? This seemed logical but my thoughts are if one failed and took my heater out of service my filter won't magically keep my fish alive and same in reverse.
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In my case going marine yes i would separate the most important items, i have two heaters on two separate power bars, having said that when we had a power failure in cumbria for three days with the floods 10 years ago, i kept my freshwater tanks heated with hot water bottled and didn't lose a single fish, other than that ive not had one failure with Extention leads in 30 years of fishkeeping(touch wood) :)
 
Spook187 said:
In my case going marine yes i would separate the most important items, i have two heaters on two separate power bars, having said that when we had a power failure in cumbria for three days with the floods 10 years ago, i kept my freshwater tanks heated with hot water bottled and didn't lose a single fish, other than that ive not had one failure with Extention leads in 30 years of fishkeeping(touch wood) :)
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Well I'm building a basic stc1000 for my heater and attaching it to underside of cabinet. That way In case of failure of the thermostat inside the fish won't just boil alive and an alarm would sound.

Mainly speaking for my holiday coming up and a family member will be coming in to feed the fish. I'm going to make it retard proof by putting there food in little pots so they don't overfeed them etc (I did debate an auto feeder but I can't find one which will dispense pleco wafer also without dumping all of them in)

Any more advice for holiday? 125 litre tropical community with mainly tetra species in, guppy and plattys also with two bn plecos (young so only 2 inch or so each atm)
 
Unicorn said:
Well I'm building a basic stc1000 for my heater and attaching it to underside of cabinet. That way In case of failure of the thermostat inside the fish won't just boil alive and an alarm would sound.

Mainly speaking for my holiday coming up and a family member will be coming in to feed the fish. I'm going to make it retard proof by putting there food in little pots so they don't overfeed them etc (I did debate an auto feeder but I can't find one which will dispense pleco wafer also without dumping all of them in)

Any more advice for holiday? 125 litre tropical community with mainly tetra species in, guppy and plattys also with two bn plecos (young so only 2 inch or so each atm)
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Don't worry about someone feeding every day. Fish are happy to diet for a couple of days or so. Some people even do it for their fishes health.
 
Well been a year since the tank has been up and running and time for a sump redesign, lots of lessons learnt now having worked with it for a year so this is now what is being made.



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White tubes are 300w Jager heaters, bugger to fit but heat well so want to keep them, hence small cut outs allow the 540mm things to fit!
 
hey guys,

just after some advice, i have just bought a 64 litre tank, the chap who sold it me also gave some of his "filter media" which essentially was a large filter sponge thing from his filter full of fish poo.

He advised after i had set the tank up ect to drop that in and it will kickstart my cycle.

After 24 hours of running my tank empty i dumped that in and another 24 hours later it all went clear again.

Now i plan on leaving it at least 7 days but i haven't got any filter starter ect in. do you guys think it will be enough if i drop some dried food in every couple of days to start the cycle ?

i plan to test the after after 7 days but i just wanted to know if i should buy some filter start



many thanks for the future advice
 
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