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Looks ace, A4L tank? Sure I seen it on their FB :) My next tank will most likely be from them.
 
Probably going to be ridiculed for being basic after reading the last few pages but here goes.

My son struggles with the world. He's had a rough start, hydrocephalus detected whilst he was in the womb, neurosurgery when he was 2 to install a shunt to drain excess brain fluid & coming up to another surgery as the valve in his shunt has failed (lasted 15months, meant to last 15 years)

We have discovered that his anxiety wanes a little when he watches fish in a tank. We were at a friends and he just sat quietly for 35 mins enthralled.

So we've bought a tank, filter and everything needed such as tap-safe. It'll just be a cold water tank, few goldfish. Nothing grand but I was wondering, before I go get it all set up, is there I need to consider.

Tank is one I got off FB, 110L capacity

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Spook187 said:
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Look forward to what you’re planning to setup in it.

It’s been a bumpy week or so with ours. Tang got white spot again, plus black spot. The cleaner shrimp cleared black spot and the reef medic treatment seems to have cleared white spot, but I’ll treat for longer this time. The tang seems a bit up and down, fingers crossed it’s ok.

The anemone has hopefully given up trying to take over the Xenia’s spot. The Scoly shrunk for a day or so, I don’t think it liked the white spot treatment landing on it, so I now dissolve in water before adding.

Hoping to get a livestream camera setup on the tank in due course.

Once we reach stability again will look to add some more fish and coral.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Look forward to what you’re planning to setup in it.

It’s been a bumpy week or so with ours. Tang got white spot again, plus black spot. The cleaner shrimp cleared black spot and the reef medic treatment seems to have cleared white spot, but I’ll treat for longer this time. The tang seems a bit up and down, fingers crossed it’s ok.

The anemone has hopefully given up trying to take over the Xenia’s spot. The Scoly shrunk for a day or so, I don’t think it liked the white spot treatment landing on it, so I now dissolve in water before adding.

Hoping to get a livestream camera setup on the tank in due course.

Once we reach stability again will look to add some more fish and coral.
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lots of sps, tangs as long as they don't kill each other lol
 
Resident said:
Probably going to be ridiculed for being basic after reading the last few pages but here goes.

My son struggles with the world. He's had a rough start, hydrocephalus detected whilst he was in the womb, neurosurgery when he was 2 to install a shunt to drain excess brain fluid & coming up to another surgery as the valve in his shunt has failed (lasted 15months, meant to last 15 years)

We have discovered that his anxiety wanes a little when he watches fish in a tank. We were at a friends and he just sat quietly for 35 mins enthralled.

So we've bought a tank, filter and everything needed such as tap-safe. It'll just be a cold water tank, few goldfish. Nothing grand but I was wondering, before I go get it all set up, is there I need to consider.

Tank is one I got off FB, 110L capacity

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Sorry to hear about your son, but glad that he likes fish! You may be pushing it with 3 goldfish in a tank that size, they get big and are very messy fish. What length is your tank though? Looks decent and you defo have some options stocking wise with 110l. I've never purchased a second hand tank, but many people recommend water testing it first to make sure all the seals are intact and there is no leaks etc, so I would start there.
 
@Resident 110L is large enough for a nice shoal if small fish. If you are going to have an unheated tank I've heard that Danios are a good bet, very lively and very hardy.

A dark background will really make them stand out. I bought some black plastic that they use to black out glass from eBay.
 
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FrozenShivers said:
Sorry to hear about your son, but glad that he likes fish! You may be pushing it with 3 goldfish in a tank that size, they get big and are very messy fish. What length is your tank though? Looks decent and you defo have some options stocking wise with 110l. I've never purchased a second hand tank, but many people recommend water testing it first to make sure all the seals are intact and there is no leaks etc, so I would start there.
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Width: 80cm (31.5")
Height: 40cm (15.75")
Depth: 35cm (13.78")

I filled it and installed everything including the filter and left it for 24hrs, with the filter running. No leaks and crystal clear water.

Mrs took him for a look at some fish this morning. Came home with a goldfish and a Shubunkin.

My main concern is algae build up though I'm told I can get a fish that eats it so will be looking into that.

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@Resident

A dark background will really make them stand out. I bought some black plastic that they use to black out glass from eBay.
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I've already said to the mrs it needs a background on it.
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
Look forward to what you’re planning to setup in it.

It’s been a bumpy week or so with ours. Tang got white spot again, plus black spot. The cleaner shrimp cleared black spot and the reef medic treatment seems to have cleared white spot, but I’ll treat for longer this time. The tang seems a bit up and down, fingers crossed it’s ok.

The anemone has hopefully given up trying to take over the Xenia’s spot. The Scoly shrunk for a day or so, I don’t think it liked the white spot treatment landing on it, so I now dissolve in water before adding.

Hoping to get a livestream camera setup on the tank in due course.

Once we reach stability again will look to add some more fish and coral.
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Unfortunately anything you can use in tank to treat white spot will almost certainly not eradicate it. Medic sort of works - it will kill the free swimming stage, but not all of them unless the dosage is massive. And if you could get away with dosing high enough you'd need to keep it there for around 6 weeks to account for newly hatching cysts. It breaks down very quickly and there's no way to test how much is currently in the tank. To eradicate it you'd need to remove all fish, treat separately (with copper, hypo salinity, tank transfer method or chloroquine phosphate) and leave the tank fallow (without fish) for at least 6 weeks.

You're probably better off feeding a very good quality diet (nori, selcon supplement etc) in high quantities and hope that this is enough to stop the fish getting overwhelmed. You could also try adding a UV with very slow flow through it, some people have had success with that. Eventually (years) the strain of white spot will die out naturally as long as you don't introduce a new source.

The cleaner shrimp can't clear black spot, it's just eating dead bits of skin. This you can treat in tank using fluke solve or prazi-pro. It's mostly reef safe - it may harm tube worms and possibly anemones though most people don't seem to have problems with it.
 
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Resident said:
Width: 80cm (31.5")
Height: 40cm (15.75")
Depth: 35cm (13.78")

I filled it and installed everything including the filter and left it for 24hrs, with the filter running. No leaks and crystal clear water.

Mrs took him for a look at some fish this morning. Came home with a goldfish and a Shubunkin.

My main concern is algae build up though I'm told I can get a fish that eats it so will be looking into that.
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That's good that it seems the tank is airtight and filter is working correctly. Decent sized tank but not with that stocking, Shubunkin need far more space than your tank can hold and will outgrow it fast. My advice is as follows:

- Never trust the info LFS give you unless they're extremely reputable, they often give poor advice and are focused on making a sale.
- Take those 2 fish back as soon as possible as they are not suitable for your tank.
- Read up on the Nitrogen Cycle, there's guides out there that explain it in simple terms. Make sure you have properly cycled your tank, if you have no patience and are only interested in doing a "fish in cycle" helped along by a bunch of chemicals to speed up the cycle, then fish keeping is probably not the best hobby to get into (it requires patience).
- Using fish to tackle algae is dealing with the symptom and not the cause (usually lighting/nutrient balance etc). Try to deal with the cause first before adding more fish/invertebrates to deal with the issue, especially now that many of the more common algae eaters would be eaten by your current fish. General rule of thumb is that if a fish has a mouth large enough to fit something in it - it's fair game as food.
- If you're planning on using real plants, which I highly recommend as it aids the aquarium in many ways. Then please join UKAPS forum and you'll get lots of advice.

Best of luck.
 
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I'd echo the advice about ornamental pond fish in a tank, they grow too big really.

In my unheated 2ft tank I've got Danios, Platys, Minnows and loaches. Glass cleaning is left to 2 snails. It's also well planted to try and reduce maintenance such as water changes.
 
I've been having to turn the U4 filter off while I feed my ~14 year old semi-blind Leopard Bushfish all summer, to help it spot food sinking. We went away for a few days on Monday morning and stupid me forgot to turn the filter back on after giving bushfish last feed before we left, first time I've done that. Just like my African Butterfly and Knife Fishes in other tanks, bushfish can breathe air. Any other fish would I have these days would have probably just about survived my stupid mistake, but not bushfish's only tankmate, an ~11 year old Rubbernose Plec that are very oxygen sensitive. Gutted. :(
 
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UTmaniac said:
I've been having to turn the U4 filter off while I feed my ~14 year old semi-blind Leopard Bushfish all summer, to help it spot food sinking. We went away for a few days on Monday morning and stupid me forgot to turn the filter back on after giving bushfish last feed before we left, first time I've done that. Just like my African Butterfly and Knife Fishes in other tanks, bushfish can breathe air. Any other fish would I have these days would have probably just about survived my stupid mistake, but not bushfish's only tankmate, an ~11 year old Rubbernose Plec that are very oxygen sensitive. Gutted. :(
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Sorry to hear about this.

I too turn my filters off at feeding time and have forgotten. As a reminder I keep the aquarium cabinet door open, but the time I forgot I absent mindedly closed it before switching back on.
 
UTmaniac said:
I've been having to turn the U4 filter off while I feed my ~14 year old semi-blind Leopard Bushfish all summer, to help it spot food sinking. We went away for a few days on Monday morning and stupid me forgot to turn the filter back on after giving bushfish last feed before we left, first time I've done that. Just like my African Butterfly and Knife Fishes in other tanks, bushfish can breathe air. Any other fish would I have these days would have probably just about survived my stupid mistake, but not bushfish's only tankmate, an ~11 year old Rubbernose Plec that are very oxygen sensitive. Gutted. :(
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I have a routine on alexa called feed the fish, which turns off the smart plug that the pump is plugged into for 7 minutes for a similar reason. I never have to remember to turn the pump back on after feeding.
 
Wee update on my fishkeeping journey, got a total of 4 tanks running now


Newest tank, 40 gallon African Cichlid, started off with just Mbuna then added a few malawi, then added a few demasoni so theres a bit of a mixed bag in there :). Deffo gonna want to get a bigger tank for these guys at some stage as they will soon get big


By contrast my first tank i set up a 55g community, i have a great knack of taking pics in which you can hardly see a fish but ive a mixture of community stuff in here, some clown loaches, gouramis, rummy nose and colombian tetras, some ember tetras, few species of corys and teh usual shrimp snail and ottos :D


20gallon tank sits in my kitchen more community stuff, neon tetras, corys and an ancistrus pleco in there somewhere


Another 20 gallon which originally wanted for a quarantine/hospital tank but ended up taking on some fish from my dad when he was getting rid of a tank so its a work in progress.

all my tanks i like to have live plants and generally do well with them.

Totally in love with the hobby and takes a lot of will power not to just see another space in the house that could be filled with a new tank
 
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