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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => New Fishkeepers => Topic started by: CrashEd on May 18, 2019, 08:15:37 PM

Title: Woo hoo, we now have fish!
Post by: CrashEd on May 18, 2019, 08:15:37 PM
First post here so hi to all!  :wave:

I’ve just finished cycling a 200l (110cm) aqua oak tank and today we bought our first fish  :fishy1:

Went up to Wharf Aquatics, north Derbyshire (Junc 28, M1) - Our new finned friends are settling in well  :)

We now have:

5 Danios
5 x-ray Tetras
5 Endlers

Went for some hardy fish to begin with, but I can’t help thinking, should I have bought more?? All of that hard work to build up all that good bacteria and the tank looks a bit empty! To be fair, the LFS were great and advised against Corydoras and a few other fish I wanted until the tank is a bit more matured. Was this good advice? Should I get some more hardy fish so that the bio load is greater or should I be ok for now?

Well chuffed that we now have fish   :fishy1:
Title: Re: Woo hoo, we now have fish!
Post by: Matt on May 18, 2019, 10:16:01 PM
Great news! Congrats on your new fish  :fishy1:

I would recommend getting a few more of the same species of fish as they will be more comfortable in larger groups, especially the Danios and Tetras. Maybe boost your numbers to 8 of each. 6 is the normally recommended minimum, but you have the tank space to easily go a little higher than this without preventing any future plans.

That was good advice re the corys... nice to see a store offering good advice like this (for once!).
You'll be able to increase your stocking by a third a week with no problems, so no need to dramatically increase anytime soon neccessarily, I'd always rather play things safe  ;)
Title: Re: Woo hoo, we now have fish!
Post by: CrashEd on May 18, 2019, 11:55:39 PM
Quote from: Matt on May 18, 2019, 10:16:01 PM
Great news! Congrats on your new fish  :fishy1:

I would recommend getting a few more of the same species of fish as they will be more comfortable in larger groups, especially the Danios and Tetras. Maybe boost your numbers to 8 of each. 6 is the normally recommended minimum, but you have the tank space to easily go a little higher than this without preventing any future plans.

That was good advice re the corys... nice to see a store offering good advice like this (for once!).
You'll be able to increase your stocking by a third a week with no problems, so no need to dramatically increase anytime soon neccessarily, I'd always rather play things safe  ;)

Cheers buddy - yes I was massively impressed with those guys at Wharf. They took their time and didn’t rush me in to anything. They asked a lot of questions and really considered everything.

I’ll be heading back to boost numbers!
Title: Re: Woo hoo, we now have fish!
Post by: Robert on May 19, 2019, 08:38:15 AM
Good stuff  :cheers:


Pics please :)
Title: Re: Woo hoo, we now have fish!
Post by: fcmf on May 20, 2019, 04:54:57 PM
Congrats and glad to read that the store offered good advice.

Looking forward to seeing some photos, especially of the young x-ray tetras.  Mine are elderly now. I love the colouring of their finnage - dorsal fin and tail in particular.