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Posted by Mary Burns on April 13, 2005, 5:00 am
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> I'm taking over 2, 3 ft tanks. My hubby used to be very keen on tropical
> fish and bred beautiful fantail guppies, as well as keeping several
> community tanks. Sadly due to lack of time means he isn't really
> interested anymore.
> The tank in our hall has no fish (and hasn't for about 6 weeks after our
> very old fish finally perished) but has still been kept 'running'. (ie
> heat and light)
> The tank in the bathroom has 6 fish left, all of which are very old. There
> are 3 gouramis (one is not very well........it looks like a fungal
> infection but only on the side of his head, Mark has treated the tank with
> methal blue), the tank is shared with a harliquin, a danio and a glo light
> tetra.
> Up until now I haven't been 'hands on' with the tanks, but that is about
> to change. I really like our tanks and our elderly fish and would like to
> bring the tanks back to life.
> I would really appreciate some step by step guidence.
> Advice would be really appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Denise
>
> The empty tank has probably lost the cycle, and you need to add a few(3)
> fish who can cycle it again or add media from the other one to
> help.Platies are colourful, active fish and can cycle, but being
> livebearers often breed. In your other tank,the small fish do better in
> groups, so you could add a few more slowly. Once the tank has cycled
> again, choose fish suitable for 3' tank, avoid angels, clown loaches etc
> who get very big in the long run, unless your interest extends to a bigger
> tank. I would choose fish that get no bigger than 2" and have a few rather
> then 1 or 2 bigger fish. There are many small tetras/minnows. My 25g has 5
> neon tetra and 5 white cloud minnows who get on fine together and I'm
> thinking of making each group a little bigger, perhaps 9 of each. Smaller
> fish enjoy the space a 3' offers.
>
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> fish and bred beautiful fantail guppies, as well as keeping several
> community tanks. Sadly due to lack of time means he isn't really
> interested anymore.
> The tank in our hall has no fish (and hasn't for about 6 weeks after our
> very old fish finally perished) but has still been kept 'running'. (ie
> heat and light)
> The tank in the bathroom has 6 fish left, all of which are very old. There
> are 3 gouramis (one is not very well........it looks like a fungal
> infection but only on the side of his head, Mark has treated the tank with
> methal blue), the tank is shared with a harliquin, a danio and a glo light
> tetra.
> Up until now I haven't been 'hands on' with the tanks, but that is about
> to change. I really like our tanks and our elderly fish and would like to
> bring the tanks back to life.
> I would really appreciate some step by step guidence.
> Advice would be really appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Denise
>
> The empty tank has probably lost the cycle, and you need to add a few(3)
> fish who can cycle it again or add media from the other one to
> help.Platies are colourful, active fish and can cycle, but being
> livebearers often breed. In your other tank,the small fish do better in
> groups, so you could add a few more slowly. Once the tank has cycled
> again, choose fish suitable for 3' tank, avoid angels, clown loaches etc
> who get very big in the long run, unless your interest extends to a bigger
> tank. I would choose fish that get no bigger than 2" and have a few rather
> then 1 or 2 bigger fish. There are many small tetras/minnows. My 25g has 5
> neon tetra and 5 white cloud minnows who get on fine together and I'm
> thinking of making each group a little bigger, perhaps 9 of each. Smaller
> fish enjoy the space a 3' offers.
>
>
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