Hi guys and girls
Let me introduce myself , my name is Michael I'm 32 from the north east of England , been scouring the forums for about a month or so as I'm looking to get into the fishkeeping hobby.
I love fish , although I've never personally kept them, it all began in my teens , my dad had two HUGE tanks ( both about 10foot wide) . One tank was full or red belly piranha and the other tank full of oscars. I would sit and watch them for hours.
So, I'm looking at getting a fluval Roma 200 , which I want to make into a peaceful community tank of soft water fish ( looked at my water company site and its about 3 German d, alothough I will test it myself) I know a peaceful community tank is a mile away from what my dad used to keep haha!!!
I've been looking at the tropica website in the inspirations section and I'm going to go for a planted tank.
I'm going to set up a separate post for this in the relevant section of the forums but these are the fish I'm looking at and would love people's advice and opinions
For the schools of fish I'm looking at
Cherry barbs
Harlequin rasbora
Cardinal tetra
Rummy nose
Some sort of Cory (maybe pandas )
Now for my centre price fish I'm looking at (I know I can only have one from this list maybe as a pair)
Electric blue ram or German blue
Honey gourami
Opaline gourami
If you've got this far down thanks for your time! Look forward to hearing from you all